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semined

/ˈsɛmɪnd/

semined adjective: thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.

Adjective

semined (not comparable)

  1. (rare, largely obsolete) Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.
    • Her garments blue, and semined with stars.1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei
    • 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

Examples of semined in a sentence

  • 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...

Origin of semined

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.

Questions about semined

What does semined mean?
Semined means thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.
How do you use semined in a sentence?
Next to her sitteth a person representing Peace; a Lady all in White, semined with Stars […]
What part of speech is semined?
Semined is an adjective.
How do you pronounce semined?
Semined is pronounced /ˈsɛmɪnd/.

Words near semined in the dictionary

  1. seminations
  2. seminative
  3. seminatural
  4. seminaïve
  5. seminecessary
  6. semined
  7. seminerd
  8. seminerds
  9. seminervous
  10. seminested
  11. seminew

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