seminedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɛmɪnd/

形容詞

semined (not comparable)

1. (largely obsolete, very rare) Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.
   • 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei:

     Her garments blue, and semined with stars.

   • 1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans‎, 2nd edition, London, page 695:

     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 […]

   • 1672, Thomas Jordan, London triumphant: Or, the City in Jollity and Splendour‎, London, page 6:

     Next to her sitteth a person representing Peace; a Lady all in White, semined with Stars […]

   • 1925, Conrad Aiken, “[Review] Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves”, in The Criterion, volume 3, number 11, quoted in Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage, edited by Donald Watt, London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, page 126:

     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.

参照

• “semined”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• demines, desmine, sidemen