Definition of "fructified" [fructified]

• Simple past tense and past participle of fructify. (verb)

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• "Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier."
• "It was only after loans from Asian Development Bank and International Finance Corporation fructified in 2003, did the business begin to stabilize."
• "According to the midrashic retelling, after Cain murdered Abel, Adam resolved to abstain from relations with his wife and they lived a celibate life for one hundred and thirty years, during which the male spirits were fructified from Eve, who then gave birth, while the female spirits were fructified by Adam and they then gave birth."