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/ɪmprˈɛgnˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Impregnate v. t. (past & past part. impregnated; pres. part. impregnating)

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

(Biol.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

Impregnate v. i. To become pregnant.

adjective

Impregnate adj. Impregnated; made prolific. "The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease."

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Etymology of 'Impregnate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... though for the most part, indeed they are otherwise shap'd, and taper'd towards the end; the generation of which seems to be from no other reason but this, that the water by soaking through the earth and Lime (for I ghess that substance to add much to it petrifying quality) does so impregnate it self with stony particles, that hanging in drops in the roof of the Vault, by reason that the soaking of the water is but slow, it becomes expos'd to the Air, and thereby the outward part of the ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... practised in this country, or direct from the tissue of the Mushroom, the culture remains the same. Provided that the spawn is good, it has but to be broken into lumps of a suitable size, and inserted in the bed, to impregnate the entire mass with the necessary white films. These will take their time to collect from the soil the alkalies and phosphates of which Mushrooms principally consist, and this part of their work being done, the fruits of their labours will be displayed above ground in the elegant and ...

— The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition • Sutton and Sons

... to it. These secretions destroy the vitality of the spermatozoa, and this condition may be considered a common cause of sterility in the larger animals. Many vigorous young males are made impotent by excessive copulation. The excessive use of the male at any time may result in failure to impregnate a large percentage of the ...

— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

... the basin, where swim a company of gold-fishes. Some of them gleam brightly in their golden armor; others have a dull white aspect, going through some process of transformation. One would think that the atmosphere, continually filled with tobacco-smoke, might impregnate the water unpleasantly for the scaly people; but then it is continually flowing away and being renewed. And what if some toper should be seized with the freak of emptying his glass of gin or brandy into the basin,—would the fishes die ...

— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... crystallizing in a liter (1 pint) of alcohol at the same temperature as 18 grammes of the Turkish. The best preparations are made at Cannes and Grasse. The flowers are not there treated for the otto, but are submitted to a process of maceration in fat or oil, ten kilos. of roses being required to impregnate one kilo. of fat. The price of the roses varies from 50c. to 1 fr. 25c. ...

— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various

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