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▪ I. † ˈseminate, a. Obs. rare—1. [ad. L. sēminātus, pa. pple. of sēmināre: see seminate v.] Disseminated.a 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 851 The suaue odour Was seminate about that blisfull tour.▪ II. seminate, v. Now arch. (ˈsɛmɪneɪt) [f. L. sēmināt-, ppl. stem of sēmināre to sow, bring forth, propa...
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reseminate
reˈseminate, v. rare. [ad. L. resemināre (see seminate v.); in both quots. after Ovid Met. xv. 392.] refl. To reproduce as from seed.1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 134 Concerning its generation, that without all conjunction, it begets and reseminates it selfe. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 446 One ...
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seminator
† seminator Obs. [a. L. sēminātor, agent-n. f. sēmināre: see seminate v.] A sower, a scatterer of seed. (With quot. 1609 cf. seminary n.2 2.)1609 Wotton Life & Lett. (1907) I. 462 Here hath been scattered a report by the Pope's seminators that his Majesty had [etc.]. 1651 Prestwich tr. Seneca's Hipp...
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seminative
seminative, a. rare. (ˈsɛmɪneɪtɪv) [Formed as seminate v. + -ive.] Having the function of sowing or propagating; capable of sowing seeds (of thought). † seminative power, seminative virtue: cf. seminal a.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxlii. (Bodl. MS.), Vertu semynatife of Rewe is in þe sede in ...
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semined
† ˈsemined, pple. Obs. [f. *semine vb., ad. L. sēmināre: see seminate v.] = semée a.1603 B. Jonson King's Entertainm. (1604) C 2 Irene, or Peace... Her attire White, semined with Starres. a 1616 ― Hymenæi B 2 Reason, seated in the top of the Globe..her Garments blew, and semined with Starres. 1611 S...
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conseminate
† conˈseminate, v. Obs.—0 [f. L. con- together + sēmināre to sow seed.] To sow together.1656 in Blount Glossogr. Hence in Bailey (folio), Johnson, and mod. Dicts.
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proseminate
† proˈseminate, v. Obs. [f. ppl. stem of L. prōsēmināre to sow, propagate: see pro-1 1 and seminate.] trans. To sow, to propagate; to disseminate.1657 R. Carpenter Astrol. 36 These errours..procreated and proseminated by Astrologers. 1657–83 Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 222 To proseminate his curi...
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semination
semination (sɛmɪˈneɪʃən) [a. L. sēminātiōn-em, f. sēmināre to sow: see seminate v.] 1. The action or process of sowing. Chiefly fig.1531 Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 338 The semynacyon and sowing such euill seedes of dampnable and detestable heresies. 1664 Evelyn Sylva ii. 8 But to ma...
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superseminate
† superˈseminate, v. Obs. [f. late L. supersēmināt-, pa. ppl. stem of supersēmināre, f. super- super- 2 + sēmināre to sow, seminate. Cf. It. soprasseminare, Sp. sobresembrar, Pg. -semear.] 1. trans. To sow on the top of something previously sown. Also absol. Chiefly fig. with allusion to the parable...
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interseminate
† interˈseminate, v. Obs. rare—0. [f. inter- 1 + L. sēmināre to sow: cf. disseminate.] ‘To sow among or between’ (Bailey, 1721).
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