Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fertilize

Fertilize , transitive verb

[Compare French fertiliser.]

1.
To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. — Byron
2.
To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower. — A. R. Wallace