| 释义 |
† seminator Obs.
[a. L. sēminātor, agent-n. f. sēmināre: see seminate v.]
A sower, a scatterer of seed. (With quot. 1609 cf. seminary n.2 2.)
1609Wotton Life & Lett. (1907) I. 462 Here hath been scattered a report by the Pope's seminators that his Majesty had [etc.]. 1651Prestwich tr. Seneca's Hippol. i. ii. 7 The Gods fruitfull Seminator, who As he his Thunder brandishes, doth shake The trembling world. |