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seed-plot|ˈsiːdplɒt|
[f. seed n. + plot n.]
A piece of ground in which seed is or may be sown, a seed-bed. Now only transf. and fig.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Pref., Should they not..rather alltogether haue geuen ouer and forsaken the Gospell which they sawe to be the sedeplott [orig. Fr. semence] of so many contentions. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1311/2 This gentleman had..a regard for the seed-plots of learning, to haue them watered with the springs of his bountie. 1604R. C. Table Alph., Seminarie, a seede plot for young trees or grafts, a nurserie. 1641Milton Animadv. xiii. 52 The honest Gardener that..had wrought painfully about his bankes and seed-plots. 1702Pres. St. Jacobitism 13 The contrary Practise..was nothing else but a Seed-plot of Destruction. 1731Miller Gard. Dict., A Seminary is a Seed-Plot, which is adapted or set apart for the sowing of Seeds. 1759Bp. Hurd Moral Dialogues iii. 114 A nursery of brave men, a very seed-plot of warriors and heroes. 1865Lecky Ration. (1878) II. 279 It has been the seed-plot of poetry and romance. 1901Edin. Rev. July 77 The dim nebulous seed-plots of worlds that strew the sidereal heavens. |