v. Obs.–1 [f. L. frūctu-s FRUIT + -ATE3.] intr. To bear fruit; to fructify.
1663. Flagellum; or O. Cromwell (ed. 2), 5. Those ill qualities which fructuated in him [Cromwell] at this age.
Hence Fructuated ppl. a. Her. = FRUCTED. Also Fructuation, the action of bearing fruit; † concr. a crop of fruit (in quot. fig.).
1782. T. Pownall, Antiquity, 60. Knowing … with what superabundant population the first fructuation of an advancing society is loaded.
1809. J. Home, in Naval Chron. (1810), XXIV. 193. Argent, an oak tree vert, eradicated proper, fructuated or.
1885. Syd. Soc. Lex., Fructuation, the development or production of fruit.
