† improlificatev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To render prolific, to fertilize.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [verb (transitive)]
geta1375
to beget with childa1393
impregn?c1550
season1555
enwomb1590
knock1598
with-child1605
fill1607
fertilitate1638
ingravidate1642
impregnate1646
improlificate1646
prolificate1650
pregnant1660
pregnate1686
fecundate1721
fecundify1736
to knock up1813
to put in the family way1898
inseminate1923
to get or put (someone) in the (pudding) club1936
stork1936
to put in the way1960
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xvi. 371 The inordinate longitude of the organ..may be a meanes to improlificate the seed. View more context for this quotation
1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxvii. 151 A greater difficulty..is, how the sperm of the Cock improlificates and makes the ovall conception fruitfull.
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