semined

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmɪnd/

Adjective

semined (not comparable)

(largely obsolete, very rare) Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.
- 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei:
  Her garments blue, and semined with stars.
- 1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans‎^[1], 2nd edition, London, page 695:
  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 […]
- 1672, Thomas Jordan, London triumphant: Or, the City in Jollity and Splendour‎^[2], London, page 6:
  Next to her sitteth a person representing Peace; a Lady all in White, semined with Stars […]
- 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:
  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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “semined”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

demines, desmine, sidemen