| 释义 | ▪ I. † ˈseminate, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. sēminātus, pa. pple. of sēmināre: see seminate v.]
Disseminated.
a1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 851 The suaue odour Was seminate about that blisfull tour.
▪ II. seminate, v. Now arch.|ˈsɛmɪneɪt|
[f. L. sēmināt-, ppl. stem of sēmināre to sow, bring forth, propagate, etc., f. sēmin-: see semen and -ate3.]
1. trans. To sow; chiefly fig. to promulgate or disseminate.
1535Hen. VIII in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1733) I. App. liv. 141 Who..intended to seminate, engender, & breed, among our people & subjects, a most mischievous & seditious Opinion. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. f iv b, I am not entred into this matter to sowe and seminate the same in an infertille grownde. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 60 If naturall, where are the innate principles, primely seminated, common to all men? a1734North Life Dr. J. North (1742) 248 He shewed an innate Hatred of popular Faction; as well that which had been seminated all over England..as also [etc.]. 1796W. H. Marshall West Eng. I. 164 The method of seminating the Wheat crop.
†b. Her. (Cf. semée a., semined.)
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. x. (1611) 115 If they were strowed, or (as I may better terme it) seminated all over the field, then were it not a bend betweene but upon or over them.
2. intr. To produce seed. rare—1.
1676Hale Contempl. i. 430 The secret spark of life that is in it, that Attracts, increaseth, Groweth, Seminateth, preserves it self and its kinds.
Hence ˈseminated ppl. a.
1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 236 Wherefore the whole muckie and phlegmatick Doctrine of Galen, hath been dried up in a seminated or seedied Stone. |
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