Meaning of superseminate | Babel Free

Definitions

To sow over something previously sown.

obsolete

Examples

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

“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.'”

“[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; […]”

“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...”

“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.”

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