[n. of action f. L. fēcundāre: see prec. and -ATION.] The process of fecundating; fertilization, impregnation.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. Or that ye make fecondacyon, ye must make an openynge longe ynoughe.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. vii. 350. A common conceit, that Rachel requested these plants as a medicine of fecundation.
1721. R. Bradley, Wks. Nature, 31. This Fecundation is done by the help of the Wind, which conveys the prolifick Dust into the Tubes of the Pestils.
1851. Carpenter, Man. Phys. (ed. 3), 512. Everything indicates that the contact of the Spermatozoa with the Ovule is the one thing needful in the act of fecundation.
