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Semina [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Semen

Seminal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to seed, or to the elements of production.

2. Contained in a seed; radical; rudimental; original; as seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

3. Seminal leaf, the same as seed-leaf.

Seminal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

seminal state.

Seminal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.

2. Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue.

Seminal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A seed.

Seminality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The nature of seed; or the power of being produced.

Seminality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being seminal.

Seminarian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Seminarist

Seminaries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Seminary

Seminarist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A Romish priest educated in a seminary.

Seminarist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

Seminary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Seminal; belonging to seed.

Seminary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A seed-plant; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; as, to transplant trees from a seminary .

2. [In this sense, the word is not used in America; being superseded by nusery .]

3. The place or original stock whence anything is brought.

4. This stratum, being the seminary or promptuary, furnishing matter for the formation of animal or vegetable bodies- Woodward . [ Not in use .]

5. Seminal state. [ Not in use .]

6. Source of propagation.

7. A place of education; any school, academy, college or univerlity, in which young persons are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for future employments. [ This is the only signification of the word in the United States, at least as far as my knowledge

8. extends .]

9. A Romish priest educated in a seminary; a seminarist.

Seminary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Belonging to seed; seminal.

Seminary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.

3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

4. Seminal state.

5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source.

6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.

Seminate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To sow; to spread; to propagate.

Seminate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To sow; to spread; to propagate.

Seminated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Seminate

Seminating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Seminate

Semination [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of sowing.

2. In botany , the natural dispersion of seeds.

Semination [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of sowing or spreading.

2. Natural dispersion of seeds.