superseminate

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ seminate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsuːpə(ɹ)ˈsɛmɪneɪt/

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Verb

superseminate (third-person singular simple present superseminates, present participle superseminating, simple past and past participle superseminated)

1. (obsolete) To sow over something previously sown.
   • 1650 [1620], Nicolas Caussin, translated by Sir Thomas Hawkins, The Holy Court‎^[1], 3 (The Angel of Peace to All Christian Princes), William Bentley, page 4:

     Would to God that that Charity which is diffused in us by the spirit, would suffocate these superseminated tares of contentions...

   • 1826 [1637], Edward Reynolds, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich‎^[2], volume IV, London: B. Holdsworth, Sermon II. The Peace of the Church, page 295:

     While there is corruption in our nature,—narrowness in our faculties,—sleepiness in our eyes,—difficulty in our profession,—cunning in our enemies, δυσνόητα, 'hard things in the scriptures,'—and an envious man to superseminate; there will still be τί ἑτέρως φρονοῦντες, 'men that will be differently minded.'

   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section III”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 15, page 20:

     [T]hey that have the guiding of ſouls muſt remember that they […] muſt render an account; and that cannot be done with joy, when it ſhall be indifferent to any man to ſuperſeminate what he pleaſe; […]

   • 1690, Christopher Ness, “VII. Of Cain and Abel”, in A Compleat History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament‎^[3], volume I, London: T. Snowden, page 67:

     The field is first sown with good Corn, and then the Envious one comes after to super-seminate and sow his Tares of Idolatry, Superstition and Heresie, where true religion was sown before...

   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria : A Discourse of Sallets.‎^[4], London: B. Tooke, pages 134, 135:

     Dr. Lister, (according to his communicative and obliging Nature) has taught us how to raise such as our Gardiners cover with nasty Litter, during the Winter; by rather laying of Clean and Sweet Wheat-Straw upon the Beds, super-seminating and over-strowing them thick with the Powder of bruised Oyster-Shells, &c. to produce that most tender and delicious Sallet.

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 “superseminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

supersēmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of supersēminō