Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sowing: the act of disseminating; insemination.
- noun Propagation; breeding.
- noun In botany, the natural dispersion of seeds; the process of seeding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of sowing or spreading.
- noun (Bot.) Natural dispersion of seeds.
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- noun The act of
sowing orspreading . - noun botany The
natural dispersion ofseeds .
Etymologies
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FBI Agent Seeley Booth was making a deposit in order to provide the Lovin' Spoonful. of Pearl Jam which his "partner" Dr. Temperence 'Bones' Brennan needed for articial semination.
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The text refers to conception as an active female process, “female semination.”
Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009
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Lord, and in Him is that declaration borne out; since it is He Himself who has made the plough, and introduced the pruning-hook, that is, the first semination of man, which was the creation exhibited in Adam,
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Nevertheless there can be little doubt that he indirectly contributed to its dis - semination by the vogue that his teaching — possibly misunderstood and out of context — gave to this form of mysticism.
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968
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_But there is a correspondence with conjugial love, semination, prolification, the love of infants, and similar things which exist in marriages, and are derived from them.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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Before some knowledge on this subject is acquired, we will only present to the intellectual view, as in a shade, these few particulars: conjugial love corresponds to the affection of genuine truth, its chastity, purity, and sanctity; semination corresponds to the potency of truth; prolification corresponds to the propagation of truth; and the love of infants corresponds to the defence of truth and good.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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But to make an essay what seed is most agreeable to the soil, you may by the thriving of a promiscuous semination make a judgment of,
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Also, to have begotten 2 daughters did you use artificial semination?
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Commissioner shall provide for the broad dis - semination of information to prospective enroll - ees on the enrollment process, including before each open enrollment period.
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It does not cover the promotion track pharmaceuticals from the place of manufac - of OTC medicines when the object is to encourage ture to the place where dispensed, and broader dis - purchase by the public. semination of clinical study data.
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