单词 | superseminate |
释义 | † superseminatev. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To sow on the top of something previously sown. Also intransitive with object implied. Chiefly figurative with allusion to the parable of the tares (Matthew 13:24, 25). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > oversow seed oversowOE superseminate1638 oversow1890 1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 17 While there is corruption in our Nature,..and an envious man to superseminate, there will still bee..men that will bee differently minded. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini iii. 20 That cannot be done with joy, when it shall be indifferent to any man to superseminate what he please. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 67 The envious one comes after to super-seminate and sow his tares. 2. transitive. To sprinkle with an additional layer. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something besprengc1000 strinklea1300 to-sprenga1382 sparkle14.. sprinkle?a1425 besprinklec1440 asperse1490 spray1527 asperge1547 pepper?1605 bepeps1622 conspergate1623 bescatter1631 spurtle1633 spatter1647 consperge1657 superfuse1657 bespatter1674 superseminate1699 asperge1721 sparge1786 spray1861 1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 135 Laying of Clean..Wheat-Straw upon the Beds, super-seminating and over-strowing them thick with the Powder of bruised Oyster-Shells. 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner iii. xxxii. 171 Upon all that superseminating and strewing some clean wheat-straw. Derivatives superseminated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [adjective] > sown > on top of something superseminated1650 undersown1943 1650 tr. N. Caussin Angel of Peace 30 Would..that Charity..would suffocate these superseminated tares of contentions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1638 |
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