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semination|sɛmɪˈneɪʃən|
[a. L. sēminātiōn-em, f. sēmināre to sow: see seminate v.]
1. The action or process of sowing. Chiefly fig.
1531Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 338 The semynacyon and sowing such euill seedes of dampnable and detestable heresies. 1664Evelyn Sylva ii. 8 But to make an Essay what Seed is most agreeable to the Soil, you may by the thriving of a promiscuous Semination make a judgement of it. 1737L. Clarke Hist. Bible II. 195 From a slender Semination of the Gospel there was likely to be a vast Harvest. 1797J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 314 It is beginning to be sown with the seeds of such as we fashionably style French principles: in a few years, the semination will be universal and complete.
†b. A mode of grafting. Obs. rare—1.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 21 note, Semination, insition, inoculation or implastration, the three kindes of grafting.
†c. (See quot.) Obs.
1722Quincy Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2), Semination, is called by Blasius the Immission of the Male-Seed into the Womb in Coition.
2. The production of seed or semen.
1658Phillips, Semination, or Sementation, a sowing, or bringing forth seed. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iii. iv. (1677) 267 And therefore such Herbs, if their Semination be prevented by being cut, survive to the next Year. 1822–29Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 112 The generic term Prœotia or Prœotes is copied from Theophrastus... It is, however, peculiarly applied to premature semination. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Borders I. 124 All the Hieracia are erect throughout the process of florescence and semination.
3. The natural dispersion of seeds.
1765Johnson Shaks. 1 Hen. IV, ii. i. note, Those who perceived that fern was propagated by semination, and yet could never see the seed.
†4. = inoculation. Obs. rare—1.
1747Gentl. Mag. XVII. 527 We are informed (by the learned Maitland) that this method of Semination of the small pox has been in use above 100 years among the Chinese. |