fructure

English

Etymology

From Latin frui, past participle fructus (“to enjoy”). See fruit (noun).

Noun

fructure

1. (obsolete) use; fruition; enjoyment
   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     fructure of the first Earth

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fructure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

frūctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of frūctūrus