seminaladj.n.

/ˈsɛmɪnəl/

Forms: Also Middle English semynall, Middle English–1500s seminall.

Etymology: < French séminal (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Provençal seminal , Spanish seminal , Portuguese seminal , Italian seminale , < Latin sēminālis , < sēmin- , sēmen seed, semen n.: see -al suffix¹.

A. adj. Of or pertaining to seed; of the nature of seed.

a. Of or pertaining to the seed or semen of men and animals (applied in Physiology and Anatomy to structures adapted to contain or convey semen); of the nature of semen.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > sperm > semen

seminal1398

seminary1592

parastatic1693

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > sperm > semen > of nature of

seminal1398

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. i Þe humoure seminal.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 90 Then is the Marriage perfect..; And ye maie trewly know..How the seminall seed Masculine, Hath wrought and won the Victory, Upon the menstrualls worthily.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 154 They notably strengthen the seminall vessels.

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6047 Animals, of spontaneous and seminal generation.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 19 The seminal liquor, not only of males, but of females also, abounds in these moving little animals.

1853 G. Bird Urinary Deposits (ed. 4) §345. 360 Some time after a seminal emission.

1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) iii. 51 We regard the former as an ovary and the second as a testicle or seminal capsule.

1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish 351 The seminal matter is poured out.

†b. Begotten of the seed (of a person). Obsolete.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > begotten

akennedeOE

bikenneda1250

gottena1382

begottenc1384

engenderedc1425

bredc1440

procreate1449

propagate1543

procreated1552

progenerate1610

seminal1646

begot1691

proliferating1866

parented1904

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 43 Some deny his Divinity, that he was begotten of humane principles, and the seminall sonne of Joseph.

a. With reference to plants: Pertaining to or of the nature of seed. Botany. Of organs or structures: Serving to contain the seed. †seminal plant (= modern Latin plantula seminalis): the future plant as contained in the seed, the embryo. †seminal root = radicle n. 1 seminal leaf = cotyledon n.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective]

seminal1658

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [adjective]

knoppy1562

multisiliquose1687

vasculiferous1704

pericarpial1809

pericarpic1819

seminal1833

pericarpoidal1890

pericarpal1908

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > having or relating to covering, skin, or husk

hulled1577

arillate1830

seminal1833

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 125 The seminal spike of Mercurie weld.

1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 56 Every small particle of that imperfect plant being rather beleived seminall..than [etc.].

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 16 If you take the Lobe of a Bean, and lengthwise pare off its Parenchyma by degrees, and in very thin Shives, many Branches of the Seminal Root..will appear.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 83 Most Seeds having in them a seminal Plant perfectly formed.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Seminal Leaves.

1769 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. v. 52 Wheat has two sets of roots. The first comes immediately from the grain; the other shoots from the crown some time after. I shall distinguish them by seminal and coronal roots.

1833 W. J. Hooker in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. i. 10 The inner membrane (or seminal bag) is attached by numerous threads or veins to the inside of the outer covering.

1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 119 The former [epigean cotyledons] springing up during the process of germination, and being converted into seminal leaves.

†b. Produced from seed. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > young > seedling

maiden1616

seedling1660

seminal1731

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Crocus There are several other Varieties of the Spring Crocus.., which are seminal Productions.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Pease Several of the above-mentioned..are..only seminal variations, which will degenerate into their original state in a few years, if they are not very carefully managed.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening v. 87 Those who..find a seminal variety of any tree, or shrub, that is remarkably different from the original,..have it preserved.

3. gen. Of or pertaining to the seed or reproductive elements existing in organic bodies, or attributed in pre-scientific belief to inorganic substances. Formerly often in seminal power, seminal virtue: the power of producing offspring.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to

genitala1382

generative?a1425

genitivea1500

procreatory1576

seminal1605

procreanta1616

younglinga1627

genitable1634

genial1652

spermatic1669

testiculatory1693

reproductive1746

generational1764

reproductory1831

genesial1848

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. iv. 117 Gold phylosophicall,..having gotten a more perfect vegetation and seminal vertue, may be dissolued into any liquor.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋73 The Earth hath of herself a seminall vertue of producing herbs.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §17. 463 And consequently different appearances and effects may be caused in the same bodies, though it results from seminal principles.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 27 To prove our assertion about the Seminal production of all living Creatures,..we appeal to Observation and Experiment.

1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 48 We cannot prolong the Period of a Commonwealth beyond the Decree of Heaven, or the Date of its Nature, any more than Human Life beyond the Strength of the Seminal Virtue.

4. figurative.

a. Having the properties of seed; containing the possibility of future development. Also, frequently used of books, work, etc., which are highly original and influential; more loosely: important, central to the development or understanding of a subject.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > original or that is the seed

seminative1398

seminary1592

seminala1639

seminiala1676

panspermatic1690

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > of work: important

seminal1947

a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 77 In divers Children their ingenerate and seminal powers (as I may call them) lie deep.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 294 Conferring upon them Seminal and Initial Grace, which doth not presuppose Faith, but is it self the seed of Faith.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Acts viii. 25 Sinful thoughts are radical and seminal Evils.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 184. ⁋1 A careless glance upon a favourite author,..is sufficient to supply the first hint or seminal idea.

1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 79 It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state, pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence.

1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Aug. 468 Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—the two great seminal minds of England in their age.

1883 A. Roberts O.T. Revision v. 105 The Book of Job..seems to abound in those seminal thoughts which were developed and exhibited clearly in the later books.

1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 30 It was due to no seminal virtue in him that French literature later flowered afresh.

1947 Partisan Rev. 14 409 To be sure, Engels' more specialized Anti-Dühring and Feuerbach, if less seminal are more systematized, more apposite to Lenin's immediate purposes.

1957 D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 233 The seminal works of modern literary criticism (such as Eliot's earlier essays and Leavis's Revaluation).

1960 Guardian 14 Oct. 8/6 Everything he says is of real value... This is what academics call a seminal book.

1960 20th Century Nov. 438 Since the war there has been..no seminal poet in the younger generation.

1977 New Yorker 6 June 122/2 That the two pianists, each seminal, agreed to play together at all was startling.

b. Concerned with the ‘seeds’ of future growth.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 199 The true reformer is the Seminal Reformer, not the Radical.

†B. n. Obsolete.

1. A seminal particle; a seed, germ. Also figurative.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ

seedeOE

mustard seed?1523

seed corn1586

seedness1597

sperm1639

seminal1646

germ1823

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xvii. 379 Perhaps they containe the seminals of Spiders, and Scorpions.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 155 Did it [the Peripatetic Philosophy] suppose any thing of the form to pre-exist in the matter, as the seminal of its being; 'twere a tolerable sense to say it were educed from it.

1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 175 The seminals of heat.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 79 Mother-vices, which carry in their Bowels the seminals of other Iniquities.

2. Physiology. A seminal vessel or duct.

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [noun] > seminal or spermatic ducts

seed bringer1545

vas deferens1578

seed trough1615

seed vein1615

spermatic1690

seminal1733

rete testis1777

rete1849

parepididymis1881

spermaduct1891

1733 Ordinary of Newgate, his Acct. 19 Dec. 27/2 (advt.) The Admirable Electuary, which infalliby cures..with more Ease..than any Medicine..any old Running;..weakness of the Seminals or the Relicts of a former infection.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	seminal
释义	seminaladj.n. /ˈsɛmɪnəl/ Forms: Also Middle English semynall, Middle English–1500s seminall. Etymology: < French séminal (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Provençal seminal , Spanish seminal , Portuguese seminal , Italian seminale , < Latin sēminālis , < sēmin- , sēmen seed, semen n.: see -al suffix¹. A. adj. Of or pertaining to seed; of the nature of seed. 1. a. Of or pertaining to the seed or semen of men and animals (applied in Physiology and Anatomy to structures adapted to contain or convey semen); of the nature of semen. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > sperm > semen seminal1398 seminary1592 parastatic1693 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > sperm > semen > of nature of seminal1398 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. i Þe humoure seminal. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 90 Then is the Marriage perfect..; And ye maie trewly know..How the seminall seed Masculine, Hath wrought and won the Victory, Upon the menstrualls worthily. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 154 They notably strengthen the seminall vessels. 1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6047 Animals, of spontaneous and seminal generation. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 19 The seminal liquor, not only of males, but of females also, abounds in these moving little animals. 1853 G. Bird Urinary Deposits (ed. 4) §345. 360 Some time after a seminal emission. 1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) iii. 51 We regard the former as an ovary and the second as a testicle or seminal capsule. 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish 351 The seminal matter is poured out. †b. Begotten of the seed (of a person). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > begotten akennedeOE bikenneda1250 gottena1382 begottenc1384 engenderedc1425 bredc1440 procreate1449 propagate1543 procreated1552 progenerate1610 seminal1646 begot1691 proliferating1866 parented1904 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. x. 43 Some deny his Divinity, that he was begotten of humane principles, and the seminall sonne of Joseph. View more context for this quotation 2. a. With reference to plants: Pertaining to or of the nature of seed. Botany. Of organs or structures: Serving to contain the seed. †seminal plant (= modern Latin plantula seminalis): the future plant as contained in the seed, the embryo. †seminal root = radicle n. 1 seminal leaf = cotyledon n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] seminal1658 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [adjective] knoppy1562 multisiliquose1687 vasculiferous1704 pericarpial1809 pericarpic1819 seminal1833 pericarpoidal1890 pericarpal1908 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > having or relating to covering, skin, or husk hulled1577 arillate1830 seminal1833 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 125 The seminal spike of Mercurie weld. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 56 Every small particle of that imperfect plant being rather beleived seminall..than [etc.]. 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 16 If you take the Lobe of a Bean, and lengthwise pare off its Parenchyma by degrees, and in very thin Shives, many Branches of the Seminal Root..will appear. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 83 Most Seeds having in them a seminal Plant perfectly formed. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Seminal Leaves. 1769 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. v. 52 Wheat has two sets of roots. The first comes immediately from the grain; the other shoots from the crown some time after. I shall distinguish them by seminal and coronal roots. 1833 W. J. Hooker in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. i. 10 The inner membrane (or seminal bag) is attached by numerous threads or veins to the inside of the outer covering. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 119 The former [epigean cotyledons] springing up during the process of germination, and being converted into seminal leaves. †b. Produced from seed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > young > seedling maiden1616 seedling1660 seminal1731 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Crocus There are several other Varieties of the Spring Crocus.., which are seminal Productions. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Pease Several of the above-mentioned..are..only seminal variations, which will degenerate into their original state in a few years, if they are not very carefully managed. 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening v. 87 Those who..find a seminal variety of any tree, or shrub, that is remarkably different from the original,..have it preserved. 3. gen. Of or pertaining to the seed or reproductive elements existing in organic bodies, or attributed in pre-scientific belief to inorganic substances. Formerly often in seminal power, seminal virtue: the power of producing offspring. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > relating to genitala1382 generative?a1425 genitivea1500 procreatory1576 seminal1605 procreanta1616 younglinga1627 genitable1634 genial1652 spermatic1669 testiculatory1693 reproductive1746 generational1764 reproductory1831 genesial1848 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. iv. 117 Gold phylosophicall,..having gotten a more perfect vegetation and seminal vertue, may be dissolued into any liquor. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋73 The Earth hath of herself a seminall vertue of producing herbs. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §17. 463 And consequently different appearances and effects may be caused in the same bodies, though it results from seminal principles. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 27 To prove our assertion about the Seminal production of all living Creatures,..we appeal to Observation and Experiment. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 48 We cannot prolong the Period of a Commonwealth beyond the Decree of Heaven, or the Date of its Nature, any more than Human Life beyond the Strength of the Seminal Virtue. 4. figurative. a. Having the properties of seed; containing the possibility of future development. Also, frequently used of books, work, etc., which are highly original and influential; more loosely: important, central to the development or understanding of a subject. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > original or that is the seed seminative1398 seminary1592 seminala1639 seminiala1676 panspermatic1690 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > of work: important seminal1947 a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 77 In divers Children their ingenerate and seminal powers (as I may call them) lie deep. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 294 Conferring upon them Seminal and Initial Grace, which doth not presuppose Faith, but is it self the seed of Faith. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Acts viii. 25 Sinful thoughts are radical and seminal Evils. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 184. ⁋1 A careless glance upon a favourite author,..is sufficient to supply the first hint or seminal idea. 1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 79 It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state, pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence. 1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Aug. 468 Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—the two great seminal minds of England in their age. 1883 A. Roberts O.T. Revision v. 105 The Book of Job..seems to abound in those seminal thoughts which were developed and exhibited clearly in the later books. 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 30 It was due to no seminal virtue in him that French literature later flowered afresh. 1947 Partisan Rev. 14 409 To be sure, Engels' more specialized Anti-Dühring and Feuerbach, if less seminal are more systematized, more apposite to Lenin's immediate purposes. 1957 D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 233 The seminal works of modern literary criticism (such as Eliot's earlier essays and Leavis's Revaluation). 1960 Guardian 14 Oct. 8/6 Everything he says is of real value... This is what academics call a seminal book. 1960 20th Century Nov. 438 Since the war there has been..no seminal poet in the younger generation. 1977 New Yorker 6 June 122/2 That the two pianists, each seminal, agreed to play together at all was startling. b. Concerned with the ‘seeds’ of future growth.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 199 The true reformer is the Seminal Reformer, not the Radical. †B. n. Obsolete. 1. A seminal particle; a seed, germ. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ seedeOE mustard seed?1523 seed corn1586 seedness1597 sperm1639 seminal1646 germ1823 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xvii. 379 Perhaps they containe the seminals of Spiders, and Scorpions. View more context for this quotation 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 155 Did it [the Peripatetic Philosophy] suppose any thing of the form to pre-exist in the matter, as the seminal of its being; 'twere a tolerable sense to say it were educed from it. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 175 The seminals of heat. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 79 Mother-vices, which carry in their Bowels the seminals of other Iniquities. 2. Physiology. A seminal vessel or duct. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [noun] > seminal or spermatic ducts seed bringer1545 vas deferens1578 seed trough1615 seed vein1615 spermatic1690 seminal1733 rete testis1777 rete1849 parepididymis1881 spermaduct1891 1733 Ordinary of Newgate, his Acct. 19 Dec. 27/2 (advt.) The Admirable Electuary, which infalliby cures..with more Ease..than any Medicine..any old Running;..weakness of the Seminals or the Relicts of a former infection. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1398
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