单词 | seminate |
释义 | † seminateadj. Obsolete. rare. Disseminated. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused > specifically of immaterial things disperse1393 seminate1575 dispread1642 profligated1700 vulgateda1861 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 32v The suaue odour Was seminate about that blisfull tour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). seminatev. Now archaic. 1. a. transitive. To sow; chiefly figurative to promulgate or disseminate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [verb (transitive)] > specific something immaterial sowc888 forspreada1300 breathea1425 diffusea1425 transfusec1425 sparkle?1533 seminate1535 enlarge1553 propagate1554 disperse1576 proseminate1619 disseminate1643 infusea1672 overpass1679 to set abroad1688 vulgate1851 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] sowc1000 besowc1175 inseminate1623 to put in1657 sprain1744 shed1770 to get in1771 seminate1796 broadcast1807 seed1814 1535 King Henry VIII in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1733) I. App. liv. 141 Who..intended to seminate, engender, & breed, among our people & subjects, a most mischievous & seditious Opinion. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. f. ivv I am not entred into this matter to sowe and seminate the same in an infertille grownde. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 60 If naturall, where are the innate principles, primely seminated, common to all men. a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 248 He shewed an innate Hatred of popular Faction; as well that which had been seminated all over England..as also [etc.]. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 164 The method of seminating the Wheat crop. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > place charge on [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle with minor charges gerate1562 seminate1610 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. x. 115 If they were strowed, or (as I may better terme it) Seminated all ouer the Field; then were it not a Bend betweene, but vpon, or ouer them. 2. intransitive. To produce seed. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > be productive [verb (intransitive)] yield1297 fruit1377 seeda1398 germ1483 buddle1581 fructuate1663 seminate1676 teem1746 spend1854 to lift well1959 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 430 The secret spark of life that is in it, that Attracts, increaseth, Groweth, Seminateth, preserves it self and its kinds. Derivatives ˈseminated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > sowing or propagating (ideas, etc.) > sown or propagated seminated1662 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 236 Wherefore the whole muckie and phlegmatick Doctrine of Galen, hath been dried up in a seminated or seedied Stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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