prolificate

present singular third person prolificates · participle present prolificating · participle past prolificated · past prolificated

1. datedtransitiveTo make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.

   A greater difficulty, in the doctrine of eggs, is, how the sperm of the cock prolificates and makes the oval conception fruitful...

   1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

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   ...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.

   1970 March, R. W. Buntenbach, “A generalized circuit model for multiwinding inductive devices”, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics