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a. Having half the nature of another. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Disseminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Disseminating. ] [ L. disseminatus, p. p. of disseminare to disseminate; dis- + seminare to sow, semen seed. See Seminary. ] 1. to spread around widely; to sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread abroad for propagation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To spread or extend by dispersion. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nearly uniform and constant fire or heat disseminated throughout the body of the earth. Woodward.

Syn. -- To spread; diffuse; propagate; circulate; disperse; scatter. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. (Min.) Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance; scattered widely. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. serving to diffuse, disseminate, or disperse.
Syn. -- diffusing(prenominal), diffusive, dispersive, disseminative, scattering, spreading. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. disseminatio: cf. F. dissémination. ] The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The universal dissemination of those writings. Wayland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Effeminacies [ From Effeminate. ] Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. effeminatus, p. p. of effeminare to make a woman of; ex out + femina a woman. See Feminine, a. ] 1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gentle, kind, effeminate remorse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Effeminate and womanish are generally used in a reproachful sense; feminine and womanly, applied to women, are epithets of propriety or commendation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Effeminated p. pr. & vb. n. Effeminating ] To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

It will not corrupt or effeminate children's minds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow womanish or weak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. “Proud and effeminately gay.” Fawkes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By means of a woman; by the power or art of a woman. [ R. ] “Effeminately vanquished.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. effeminatio. ] Effeminacy; womanishness. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Feminine. [ Obs. ] West. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Feminity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. feminatus effeminate. ] Feminine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. geminus twin. ] A pair. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini. ] (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To double. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. geminatio. ] A doubling; duplication; repetition. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Heminae [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A measure of half a sextary. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A measure equal to about ten fluid ounces. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ingeminatus, p. p. ] Redoubled; repeated. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ingeminated p. pr. & vb. n. Ingeminating ] [ L. ingeminatus, p. p. of ingeminare to double; pref. in- in + geminare. See Geminate. ] To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

. . . She yet ingeminates
The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. inseminatus, p. p. of inseminare to sow. See Seminate. ] 1. To sow seed into. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sow seed into; to impregnate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To implant in, as if sowing seed; as, to inseminate one's children with one's own prejudices; -- used mostly of ideas or attitudes.. [ PJC ]

adj. same as fertilized, 1.
Syn. -- fertilized, impregnated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A sowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. interseminatus, p. p. of interseminare. See Inter-, and Seminate. ] To sow between or among. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. proseminare, proseminatum, to disseminate. ] Propagation by seed. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Quadri- + L. gemini twins. ] Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quadrigeminal bodies (Anat.), two pairs of lobes, or elevations, on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior the testes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. pref. re- again + seminatus, p. p. of seminare to sow. ] To produce again by means of seed. [ Obs. ] Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. seminalis, fr. semen, seminis, seed, akin to serere to sow: cf. F. seminal. See Sow to scatter seed. ] 1. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contained in seed. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; serving as a source, or first principle; giving rise to related ideas or results; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue; a seminal discovery. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seminal leaf (Bot.), a seed leaf, or cotyleden. --
Seminal receptacle. (Zool.) Same as Spermatheca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A seed. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being seminal. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. See Seminary, n. ] A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. séminariste. ] A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Seminaries [ L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal. ] 1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [ Obs. ] Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

But if you draw them [ seedling ] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [ Obs. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Seminal state. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. seminarius. ] Belonging to seed; seminal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Seminated p. pr. & vb. n. Seminating. ] [ L. seminatus, p. p. of seminare to sow, fr. semen, seminis, seed. ] To sow; to spread; to propagate. [ R. ] Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. seminatio: cf. F. sémination. ] 1. The act of sowing or spreading. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Natural dispersion of seeds. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sow, as seed, over something previously sown. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That can not be done with joy, when it shall be indifferent to any man to superseminate what he please. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sowing of seed over seed previously sown. [ Obs. ] Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Tergeminous. ] (Bot.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. trans- + L. femina woman. ] To change into a woman, as a man. [ Obs. & R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Trigeminous. ] (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial. [ 1913 Webster ]