infecundous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See infecund.
Adjective
[edit]infecundous (comparative more infecundous, superlative most infecundous)
- (obsolete) infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it-self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And 'twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.