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‖ seminium rare.|sɛˈmɪnɪəm|
Pl. seminia.
[L. sēminium procreation, also race, stock, breed, f. sēmin-, sēmen: see semen.]
The first principle (of anything), germ, etc. = seminary n.2 1.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. iv. (1677) 271 The first Seminium of these Insecta. 1720tr. Hodges' Loimologia 52 There is an Efflux of the contagious Seminium. Ibid. 55 Hence it comes strongly to be conjectured, how the pestilential Seminium comes to be hid so secretly in the Porosities of the Air. 1723Maitland Acc. Inoc. Small Pox (ed. 2) 15 But in effect, to cleanse Nature from the latent Fomes or Seminium; and to secure against that popular Contagion. 1753Chambers's Cycl. Suppl., Seminium, a term used by the writers on fossils to express a sort of first principle, from which the several figured stones..are supposed to have their origin. Ibid., The seminia of fossils may be as easily sustained in the air, as those of plants and animals. 1822–9Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 426 It is difficult if not impossible, to account..for the quickening of the lurking seminium of the poison at this time rather than at any other. [1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Seminium,..applied (nom. pl.) to the seeds or predisposing causes of disease.] |