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spermatic, a. and n.|spɜːˈmætɪk|
Also 6 sparmatyke, 7 -ique, 6 spermaticke, 6–7 -ike, 7 -ique, 7–8 -ick.
[ad. med.L. spermatic-us, ad. Gr. σπερµατικός, f. σπέρµα sperm, or OF. (also mod.F.) spermatique (1314), = It. spermatico, Sp. and Pg. espermatico.]
1. a. Containing, conveying, or producing sperm or seed; seminiferous.
1539Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 12 Vessels spermatike, wherin mannes seede lyeth. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 21 b/2 Not to touch the testicles, nether anye of the spermaticke vessels. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 189 The seminall ejaculation proceeds..from the spermatick glandules. 1730Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. I. iii. §22 The Spermatic Arteries, coming on each Side out of the great Artery. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 356 A disease of the spermatic chord which is not uncommon, is an enlargement of its veins. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwifery 69 The numerous lymphatic vessels..contribute to the formation of the spermatic plexus. 1881Mivart Cat 243 Within it is a layer of membrane—the spermatic fascia.
b. Full of, abounding in, sperm; generative, productive.
1619Drayton Owle Poems 407 There in soft Downe the liquorous Sparrow sat, Pamper'd with meats, full spermatike and fat. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche ix. xxxiv, Spermatick Nile, which brings Choise Monsters forth. 1655T. Vaughan Euphrates 32 This Primitive spermatic Ocean filled all that space which we now attribute to the Air.
2. a. Of the nature of sperm; resembling sperm.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. B iv b, They haue theyr breding and begynnynge of sparmatyke mater. a1631Donne Elegies viii. 8 Ranke sweaty froth..Like spermatique issue of ripe menstruous boiles. c1645Howell Lett. iii. xxix, A production of an organicall body out of the spermatic substance. 1693Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 28 It would sometimes let fall a Spermatick Juice, which..would thereupon produce another coral. 1828Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (ed. 2) IV. xlii. 153 This organ was a reservoir for the spermatic fluid. 1869H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 22 As a rule, the germ-cell is produced by one individual and the spermatic element by another.
b. transf. and fig. Resembling sperm, esp. in generative or reproductive power.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 44 The Stoics also held, there was..a spermatic efformative word, whereby the world was formed. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. x. 142 Having annexed to it some slates and other spermatick matter, which detracts from the goodness of its own nature. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. Wks. 1811 III. 168 You will be assumed into the Divine nature, or the spermatick reasons. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. Wks. (Bohn) III. 80, I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was.
†3. Directly derived from sperm (according to old physiological views). Obs.
1548–77Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 18 The Grystle is a member simple and spermatike, next in hardnes to the bone. 1621Lodge Summary Du Bartas i. 284 Stomake. The substance thereof is more sparmatique then sanguine. 1670Phil. Trans. V. 2077 The two sorts of Parts of the Body, Spermatick and Sanguineous. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xiv. 498 A Membrane is a Spermatick part, which being consumed is not regenerated. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., The Ancients made a general Division of the Parts of the Animal Body into Spermatic and Fleshy.
4. Of qualities: Characteristic of, peculiar to, derived from, sperm.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. App. 101 Nought can e'er consume that centrall power Of hid spermatick life. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 269 Water..by the spermatick efflorescence of a mineral seed becomes wrought into a mineral juyce. 1706De Foe Jure Div. Introd., Spermatick Vigour spreads the poison'd Race, Conveys Hereditary Crimes apace. 1866Shuckard Brit. Bees 296 This in some cases has a spermatic odour. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 204 The first theory..views the growth of a tumour as due to the spermatic influence of certain cells upon those contiguous.
5. Existing in sperm.
1685J. Locke Jrnl. 22 June in Ld. King Life & Lett. John Locke (1830) I. 309, I saw, at Mr. Lewenhook's, several microscopical observations..but the best of all his glasses, and those by which he describes his spermatic animals, we did not see. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 304 According to him, they are animated substances; the analogues of the spermatic animalcules of Leuenhoeck. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwifery 96 These minute bodies have been designated as the spermatic animalcules, or the spermatozoa.
6. As n. and pl. The spermatic vessels.
1690in Maidment Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 277 Spermaticks sink, true mother of discord, Inflam'd these Hectors. 1719Quincy Phys. Dict. (1722) s.v. Semen, In the Aorta, where the Spermaticks arise. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux' Midwifery 68 The arteries which supply the ovary are the spermatics, and proceed directly from the aorta. 1859Todd's Cycl. Anat. V. 651/1 This structure is found..in the internal spermatics, and in all the veins of the uterine substances. |