单词 | germinance |
释义 | germinancen. Now rare. = germination n. Only in figurative contexts and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > sprouting or germination shutea1300 springinga1387 bearinga1398 germination?1440 springing1531 sprouting1547 blading1548 shoot1572 sprout1586 spring1597 putting1623 eruption1626 spindling1626 germinating1644 spearing1707 spiring1733 flushing1810 plantulation1819 germing1832 germinance1841 stooling1854 coming up1908 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. xxviii. 224 The Jewish nation was as a vessel of little worth in itself..which derived all its dignity from its being used as a depository and protection for a Divine Seed..and..when the fulness of time was come for the germinance and growth of that which it was meant merely to shelter and enclose, the instrument of protection was necessarily broken in order to allow of the expansion of the plant. 1868 Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 576 The historical proof of the growth of the hierarchical spirit is interesting and careful, but we cannot fail to remark that this change was synchronous with a multitude of other changes, and the germinance of the seeds. 1908 H. M. Alden Mag. Writing & New Lit. ii. viii. 212 Every living thing which sprang from Earth's treasury of darkness—tree, plant, or flower—was associated with them [sc. the dead], as if owing germinance to their potence. 1919 W. F. Allen Monogr. 65 And here the Great Physician ever stands His heart abrim with germinance of peace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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