fecundate

Stevens's sentence actually goes on to say that "something of the sentimental is necessary to fecundate the anti-poetic."

There were no insects to fecundate flowering plants; the imported fruit trees were all hand-fertilized.

Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas wrote that demons acted in this way but could fecundate women.

The solar system surely holds clues as to whether the first chemical building blocks of life, or even the seeds of life itself, arrived aboard meteorites to fecundate the primitive Earth.

Every throat in Heldon joined with Feric's in a wordless cry of joyous triumph as the seed of the Swastika rose on a pillar of fire to fecundate the stars.

Updike hints at this in the epigraph he takes from Wallace Stevens's 1934 preface to William Carlos Williams's "Collected Poems 1921-1931": "Something of the unreal is necessary to fecundate the real."

The region of the warm spot was unusually smooth, free of rocks, but there was nothing extraordinary in the picture-possibly a darker smudge in the questionable spot in the views made after Feb 43, but nothing to fecundate a theory.

And in the final scene of the novel, a rocket quite literally filled with Jaggar's seed rises "on a pillar of fire to fecundate the stars," as the orgasmic climax of a bizarre military spectacle which Jaggar clearly experiences as a somewhat heavy-handed analog of sexual intercourse.

Still today, this social model founded on the capacity of the man to fecundate women tends globally to prevail: this capacity allowed men to free themselves from the secular frustration derived from having recognized only to women the ability to generate life and led them to configure a society affirming their supremacy over women.