Middle English Dictionary Entry
sẹ̄ding(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | sẹ̄ding(e ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The process or act of producing seeds; the property of propagating by seed [1st quot.]; (b) ?seeds; (c) physiol. the process of conveying or disseminating something in the body.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)208a/a : A tre haþ in hit silf vertu of seedynge [L seminalem], and may þer by brynge forþ anoþer liche it self.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)221b/a : Þe heed comeþ of corrupcioun of þe seed þat is y-sowe, and..seedynge [L productio seminis] is corrupcioun of þe heed.
b
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)386 : Drightin..bad a dri sted suld be..and bad it gress and frut forth bring, Alkin things grouand sere þat in þam self þaire seding [Frf: sedynge; Göt: sedis] bere.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)110a/b : When vertue digestif erreþ in sawyng or sedyng [L disseminando], þer is caused þe ethic; when in onyng, þe Idropisy; when in likenyng, þe lepre.