单词 | seminality |
释义 | † seminalityn. Obsolete. a. Seminal quality, principle, or condition. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ > quality of being a seed or germ seminality1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 11 As though there were a seminalitie in Urine. View more context for this quotation 1651 in N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs Verses to Author c 2 My Quill Is to seek the Seminalty of things That's cover'd in these Lines. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 141 The Seminality or Ferment of the Disease being lodged in the Seed. b. plural. Seminal properties; seminal particles, germs. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ > seeds or germs seedOE seminalities1651 lineament1683 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋215 Alien humours and seminalities. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 62 The Influence which the Seminalities of the Pox have by intermixture with other Maladies. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) i. iv. 87 Such kind of mutinous thoughts, such jealousies and suspicions are..the seminalities of all rebellion against God. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 33 Like the dispersed Seminalities of Vegetables at the Creation scattered through the whole Mass of the Earth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1646 |
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