prolificate
English
editEtymology
editSee prolific.
Verb
editprolificate (third-person singular simple present prolificates, present participle prolificating, simple past and past participle prolificated)
- (dated, transitive) To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
- 1970 March, R. W. Buntenbach, “A generalized circuit model for multiwinding inductive devices”, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics:
- ...it enables simultaneous and self-consistent treatment of the magnetic circuit together with the associated purely electrical circuits and should prolificate the understanding and usage of electromagnetic components and systems.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
- A greater difficulty, in the doctrine of eggs, is, how the sperm of the cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful...
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editprolificate
- inflection of prolificare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editprolificate f pl