Vocabulary Word
Word: seminal
Definition: related to seed or semen; germinal; creative; providing a basis for further development; influencing future developments; Ex. seminal research in a new field
Definition: related to seed or semen; germinal; creative; providing a basis for further development; influencing future developments; Ex. seminal research in a new field
Sentences Containing 'seminal'
The artist himself was at that time busy upon two great designs; the first, to sow land with chaff, wherein he affirmed the true seminal virtue to be contained, as he demonstrated by several experiments, which I was not skilful enough to comprehend.
Since I have undertaken to manhandle this Leviathan, it behooves me to approve myself omnisciently exhaustive in the enterprise; not overlooking the minutest seminal germs of his blood, and spinning him out to the uttermost coil of his bowels.
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