单词 | seminator |
释义 | † seminatorn. Obsolete. A sower, a scatterer of seed. (With quot. 1609 cf. seminary adj. 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > sower seederOE sowerc1000 seedman1569 seedsman1601 seminator1609 superseminator1642 dropper1770–4 driller1788 1609 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 462 Here hath been scattered a report by the Pope's seminators that his Majesty had [etc.]. 1651 E. Prestwich tr. Seneca Hippolitus i. ii. 7 The Gods fruitfull Seminator, who As he his Thunder brandishes, doth shake The trembling world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1609 |
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