单词 | seed plot |
释义 | seed plotn. 1. A place where something is conceived and developed; a source, a birthplace. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > place of origin and early development wombc1400 promptuary?a1425 seminairc1440 nursery1509 matrice1555 seed plot1556 matrix1586 seminary1592 seedbed1618 nidus1807 whence1832 breeding-place1841 breeding-ground1856 breeding range1890 whenceness1922 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 22 And this is ye original of a citie & as it were ye seedplotte [L. seminarium] of a commonweale. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Pref. Should they not..rather alltogether haue geuen ouer and forsaken the Gospell which they sawe to be the sedeplott [Fr. semence] of so many contentions. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1311/2 This gentleman had..a regard for the seed-plots of learning, to haue them watered with the springs of his bountie. 1672 D. T. Answer Eachard's Cont. Clergy 136 England's grand Phrontisteries, Seminaries and Seed-plots of Learning..Oxford and Cambridge. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 363 A Warlike-Field is the Seed-Plot of great and Heroical Actions. 1702 Pres. St. Jacobitism 13 The contrary Practise..was nothing else but a Seed-plot of Destruction. 1759 R. Hurd Moral & Polit. Dialogues (1760) iii. 116 A nursery of brave men, a very seed-plot of warriors and heroes. 1810 Belfast Monthly Mag. Nov. 337/1 If he should not only himself evacuate the city.., then would the evil be completely eradicated, and the seed-plot of sedition be blasted and destroyed. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. vi. 324 It [sc. theatre] has been the seed-plot of poetry and romance. 1901 Edinb. Rev. July 77 The dim nebulous seed-plots of worlds that strew the sidereal heavens. 1975 Relig. Stud. 11 196 This was the seed-plot of the various forms of Christology. 2014 Independent (Nexis) 18 Mar. 34 It has been one of the main supports of American predominance in the region, but also provided a seed plot for jihadist movements. 2. literal. A piece of ground in which seed is or may be sown; a seedbed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > seed-bed seminairc1440 seminaryc1440 seed plot1577 seedbed1660 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry Table Trees their seede plot. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. at Seminarie A nurserie, or seede plot for young trees, or grafts. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 52 The honest Gardener, that..had wrought painfully about his bankes and seed-plots. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Seminary A Seed-Plot, which is adapted or set apart for the sowing of Seeds. 1769 tr. P. Poivre Trav. Philosopher ii. 104 Pulling up the rice-plants in the seed-plots, [they] transplant them into these grounds. 1826 Farmers, Mech., Manufacturers & Sportsmans Mag. (N.Y.) Sept. 224 The plants must be carefully drawn from the seed plot. 1860 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 221/1 The seed-plot was made on a hot-bed under glass, and the seed put in on the 1st January. 1918 in E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. II. v. xxxi. 435 The corn-growing or potato-growing farmer must rely..for improvement and uniformity upon the seed plot in which his superior plants are produced. 1977 Xinhua Gen. News Service (Nexis) 25 Aug. This problem was solved last year by erecting sheds over the seed-plots to shade the plants from over-exposure to sunshine. 2015 Econ. Times (India) (Nexis) 30 Aug. Summer hailstorms for the past two years damaged seed plots extensively. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1556 |
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