Definition of "fecundating" [fecundating]

• Present participle of fecundate. (verb)

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• "Suspended in a seashell at the back of the altar, an ostrich egg evokes a complex metaphor: the scale of the egg (with regard to the shell) is pearlescent, embedding the pantheistic iconography of a fecundating force in the historia of the Immaculate Conception."
• "Iconographically, the pearl has been interpreted as the result of lightning penetrating the oyster, hence it was regarded as the union of fire and water, both fecundating forces, and so denotes birth and rebirth; fertility."
• "This I did by depriving the flowers of their natural husbands, and fecundating them by others, — a very delicate operation, you will say."