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† semiˈnality Obs.
Also seminalty.
[f. seminal a. + -ity.]
Seminal quality, principle, or condition.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 11 As though there were a seminalitie in Urine. 1651in Biggs New Disp. Verses to Author c 2, My Quill Is to seek the Seminalty of things That's cover'd in these Lines. 1665Needham Med. Medicinæ 141 The Seminality or Ferment of the Disease being lodged in the Seed.
b. pl. Seminal properties; seminal particles, germs. lit. and fig.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋215 Alien humours and seminalities. 1665Needham Med. Medicinæ 62 The Influence which the Seminalities of the Pox have by intermixture with other Maladies. 1679J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned i. iv. (1713) 87 Such kind of mutinous thoughts, such jealousies and suspicions are..the seminalities of all rebellion against God. 1681Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §28 Like the dispersed Seminalities of Vegetables at the Creation, scattered through the whole Mass of the Earth. |