单词 | semination |
释义 | seminationn. 1. a. The action or process of sowing. Chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] sowing1362 sowa1400 sation?1440 semination1531 seeding1541 seedness1549 seedage1610 sature1657 insemination1658 grass seeding1823 semence1859 the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] > sowing or propagation (of ideas, etc.) semination1531 1531 T. Cromwell Let. May in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 338 The semynacyon and sowing such euill seedes of dampnable and detestable heresies. 1664 J. Evelyn 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. 1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible II. vii. 195 From a slender Semination of the Gospel there was likely to be a vast Harvest. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 880 I intended to educate it strictly on the Rousseau Plan, and to have preserved it from all artificial Semination. 1819 J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. Nov. 314/2 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. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > other methods of grafting emplastering?c1425 emplastration?1440 infoliation1577 semination1589 emplaster1601 packing1615 shoulder-grafting1669 side grafting1704 crown grafting1706 root grafting1707 rind grafting1722 tipping1763 saddle grafting1792 wedge-grafting1838 1589 A. Fleming in tr. Virgil Georgiks ii. 21 (note) in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Semination, insition, inoculation or implastration, the three kindes of grafting. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > immission of semen semination1722 insemination1860 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [noun] > secretion of semen or sperm pollutionc1390 semination1658 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Semination, or Sementation, a sowing, or bringing forth seed. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. iv. 267 And therefore such Herbs, if their Semination be prevented by being cut, survive to the next Year. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. V. 113 The generic term Prœotia or Prœotes is copied from Theophrastus... It is, however, peculiarly applied to premature semination. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 124 All the Hieracia are erect throughout the process of florescence and semination. 3. The natural dispersion of seeds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [noun] > dispersal of seeds shedding1721 semination1765 myrmecochory1908 hydrochory1969 1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare IV. 142 Those who perceived that fern was propagated by semination and yet could never see the seed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [noun] > immunization > inoculation or vaccination semination1747 inoculating1754 inoculation1759 vaccine inoculation1799 vaccinating1801 vaccination1868 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 527/1 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1531 |
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