fructuation (fruktuashon)

[L. fructus, fruit, + -ation.] Produce; fruit. Knowing with what superabundant population the first fructuation of an advancing society is loaded. Pownall , Study of Antiquities (1782), p. 60. fructuoust (fruk'tū-us), a. [ fructuous (also frutuose ), fructueux , F. fructueux = Pr. fructuos = Sp. Pg. fructuoso = It. frut tuoso , fructuosus , abounding in fruit, fruitful, fructus (fructu-), fruit: see fruit.] 1. Fruitful; fertile; productive. Beth fructuous , and that in litel space. Chaucer , Prol. to Parson's Tale, 1. 73. Wel may that Lond be called delytable and a fructuous Lond, that was bebledd and moysted with the precyouse Blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist. Mandeville , Travels, p. 3. 2. Causing fertility. If water were of the oun nature fructuous , it must needs follow that it self alone, and at all times, should be able to produce fruit. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 812. So rich the soil, So much does fructuous moisture o'er-abound. J. Philips , Cider, i. fructuouslyt (fruktū-us-li), adv . [ tuouslye ; fructuous +-ly2.] In a fructuous or fruitful manner; fruitfully; fertilely. Who so ever pre chi the fructuous lye the worde of God, he win i the the fadir, and biyith Crist. Gesta Romanorum, p. 233. The state