| 单词 |
seminative |
| 释义 |
seminative, a. rare.|ˈsɛmɪneɪtɪv| [Formed as seminate v. + -ive.] Having the function of sowing or propagating; capable of sowing seeds (of thought). † seminative power, seminative virtue: cf. seminal a.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxlii. (Bodl. MS.), Vertu semynatife of Rewe is in þe sede in the stalke in spraie and in rote. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋73 The seminative power is taken from the Earth. 1818G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ I. 22 Lastly, the whole frame of seminative nature was, by all the gods, distributed in proper order. 1889Lowell Latest Ess., Stud. Mod. Lang. (1891) 143 There have been men of genius, like Emerson, richly seminative for other minds. |

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