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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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"Impregnate" Quotes from Famous Books

... marshes, nor bayous, as in the United States, and in the neighbourhood of Acapulco and West Mexico. These lakes and bayous drying during summer, and exposing to the rays of the sun millions of dead fish, impregnate the atmosphere with miasma, generating typhus, yellow fever, ...

— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat

... formlessness, and barren changeableness, well suited to a notion of chaos. It is sterile, receiving all things, producing nothing. Hence the necessity of a creative power to act upon it, as it were to impregnate its barren germs. Some cosmogonies find this in one, some in another personification of divinity. Commonest of all is that of the wind, or its emblem the bird, types of the breath ...

— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

... heavens find delight only in the odors that correspond to the love of their wisdom, while the spirits in hell find delight only in the odors that correspond to a love opposed to wisdom; these are foul odors, but the former are fragrant. It follows that men in the world impregnate their blood with similar things according to correspondence with the affections of their love; for what the spirit of a man loves, his blood according to correspondence craves and by respiration attracts. From this correspondence it results that man ...

— Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom • Emanuel Swedenborg

... is the green beneath those aged trees; Here winds of gentlest wing will fan his breast,[fa] From Heaven itself he may inhale the breeze: The plain is far beneath—oh! let him seize Pure pleasure while he can; the scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease: Then let his length the loitering pilgrim lay, And gaze, untired, ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... well so to kick against the pricks as to set himself against tendencies of such depth, strength, and permanence as this. If he is to be in harmony with the dominant opinion of his own and of many past ages, he will see a single God-impregnate substance as having been the parent from which all living forms have sprung. One spirit, and one form capable of such modification as its directing spirit shall think fit; one soul and one body, one God ...

— God the Known and God the Unknown • Samuel Butler

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