单词 | superseminator |
释义 | † superseminatorn. Obsolete. rare. A person who sows something on the top of something previously sown. Chiefly figurative with allusion to the parable of the tares (Matthew 13:24, 25). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun] > sower seederOE sowerc1000 seedman1569 seedsman1601 seminator1609 superseminator1642 dropper1770–4 driller1788 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 1 In all those accursed machinations,..that old superseminator [sc. Satan] of heresies, and crude mischiefes, hath indeavoured, to be curiously compendious. 1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 140 Satan, that Super-Seminator, sows his tares in the night. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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