semined

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/ˈsɛmɪnd/

adjective

Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.

OriginLatin sēminō →
Scrabble 10
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Meanings

adjectivesemined (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerarelargely obsoleteThickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.

    Her garments blue, and semined with stars.

    1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei
    3 more examples

    To receiue this Duke for the Dutchie of Guyen, and Earledome of Ponthieu, Philip de Valoys sate crowned in violet veluet, semined with golden lillies […]

    1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, 2nd edition, London, page 695

    Next to her sitteth a person representing Peace; a Lady all in White, semined with Stars […]

    1672, Thomas Jordan, London triumphant: Or, the City in Jollity and Splendour, London, page 6

    He [Aldous Huxley], too, has a passion for […] immense erudition, immense fancy, incessant wit, and a verbal surface richly semined (to borrow his method) with oddities that smell of camphor.

    1925, Conrad Aiken, “[Review] Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves”, in The Criterion, volume 3, number 11, quoted in Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage, edited by Donald Watt, London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, page 126

Origin

  1. Latinsēminō“to plant, sow”
  2. Englishsemined

As if from a verb *semine, ultimately from Latin sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”, whence English semen) + -ō. Doublet of semé and seminate.

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