semination

American  

[sem-uh-ney-shuhn] / ˌsɛm əˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

1. a sowing or impregnating; dissemination.

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semination British  

/ ˌsɛmɪˈneɪʃən /

noun

1. rare the production, dispersal, or sowing of seed

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Etymology

Origin of semination

1525–35; < Latin sēminātiōn- (stem of sēminātiō ), equivalent to sēmināt ( us ) (past participle of sēmināre to sow, derivative of sēmen seed, semen ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

Two works by Palestinian artists respond with humor to life in their semination.

From Washington Post

It was most recently confirmed in the Postal Policy Act of 1958, which restated the principle that the Post Office encourages "the dis semination of information, the advance ment of education and culture" by offer ing below-cost rates.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is only one cure for such a condition and that is the nation-wide dis- semination of facts and information— facts and information obviously accurate.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to make an essay what seed is most agreeable to the soil, you may by the thriving of a promiscuous semination make a judgment of, What each soil bears, and what it does refuse.20:1 transplanting those which you find least agreeing with the place; or else, by copsing the starvelings in   the places where they are newly sown, cause them sometimes to overtake even their untouch’d contemporaries.

From Project Gutenberg

Galen, Avicenna, and Aquinas recognized, indeed, that such feminine semination was not necessary; Sanchez, however, was doubtful, while Suarez and Zacchia, following Hippocrates, regarded it as necessary.

From Project Gutenberg