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germinant, a.|ˈdʒɜːmɪnənt|
[ad. L. germinant-em, pr. pple. of germināre: see germinate v.]
That develops like a germ; germinating, sprouting; also, having the potentiality of life or development. rare in literal sense.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iii. §2 Prophecies..are not fulfilled punctually at once, but haue springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages. 1727Bailey vol. II, Germinant, sprouting, budding, blossoming, &c. 1833Fraser's Mag. Nov. 574/2 They are sowing the spiritual seed of immortal emulation..Such seed is germinant with quenchless vitality. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. xxvii. 102 He destroyed subordinate errours by simply proclaiming germinant truths. 1846Dana Zooph. v. §88 (1848) 91 Thus we trace out the beginning of the germinant process. 1870Baldw. Brown Eccl. Truth 266 The ideas were germinant and fruitful. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 354 A seedcorn that has under genial influences been warmed into the first movings of germinant life. 1881W. R. Nicoll Incarnate Saviour viii. 148 The teaching of Christ was not exhaustive but germinant.
b. fig. of the ground.
1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnat. ii. (1852) 23 The dry ground of man's nature is spoken of as germinant with the plant of our salvation. 1856P. Fairbairn Prophecy ii. 32 The germinant soil out of which predictions were ever springing forth. |