| 单词 | seminative virtue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseminative virtue Having the function of sowing or propagating; capable of sowing seeds (of thought). †seminative power, seminative virtue: cf. seminal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adjective] > sowing or propagating (ideas, etc.) seminative1398 the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > original or that is the seed seminative1398 seminary1592 seminala1639 seminiala1676 panspermatic1690 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxlii Vertu semynatife of Rewe is in þe sede in the stalke in spraie and in rote. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋73 The seminative power is taken from the Earth. 1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) I. 22 Lastly, the whole frame of seminative nature was, by all the gods, distributed in proper order. 1889 J. R. Lowell Stud. Mod. Lang. in Latest Ess. (1891) 143 There have been men of genius, like Emerson, richly seminative for other minds. < as lemmas |
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