seminal
adjective
pertaining to, containing, or consisting of semen.
seminally
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a word derived from
seminal.
Example Sentences
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“No one has contributed more seminally to this new way of thinking about the world.”
From Scientific American ● May 6, 2020
It hardly feels like a coincidence that the 808 emerged from Japan the same year as another seminally bizarre early-’80s creation, Pac-Man.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2016
Season Three of the seminally important and largely forgotten series Hill Street Blues begins with an episode called “Trial By Fury.”
From Forbes ● Mar. 13, 2015
Now it is clear that this distinction has no place in inanimate things, which are not generated seminally, or nourished.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
On the contrary, The power in the semen is to the animal seminally generated, as the power in the elements of the world is to animals produced from these elements—for instance by putrefaction.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
