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superseminare

superseminare [LL] 1 to sow over or in addition to an earlier sowing (esp. w. ref. to Matth. xiii 25); b (fig.). ~ata bono semini zizania Bede Sam. 592B; c745 semen verbi ‥ illi cum lolio ~are et suffocare nituntur Bonif. Ep. 63; zizania ab inimico homine ~ata H. Bos. Thom. IV 11; invidit humane prosperitatis inimicus, et que huic virtuti videntur adversantia ~avit M. Par. Min. II 224; s1265 agente zabulo pacis inimico et zizanniam ~ante Flor. Hist. III 2; 1451 operarios per quos ‥ diabolica fraude inter Christi fideles ~ata zizania eradicari ‥ possent (Confirm. collegii) Mon. Hib. & Scot. 384a.  b clericorum ‥ alii ~ati, qui et superficiales dici possunt, qui pretermissa literatura ‥ a Donato ‥ ad leges non solum humanas sed etiam divinas se transferre presumunt Gir. GE II 37 p. 349. 2 (p. ppl.) sprinkled (with spots). b (of livestock or meat, esp. pigs or pork) infected with cysticercosis, measly (cf. sursematus). arbor quedam, que albedine tota affecta est, lata habens folia, que quidem rubea erant, sed albis maculis passim ~ata (Brendanus 19) VSH II 276.  b 1288 emunt scienter porcos ~atos Leet Norw. 8; c1356 carnifex, qui vendit carnem porcinam ~atam vel carnes de morina MunAcOx 183; 1365 si aliquis carnificum vendat vel vendicioni disponat carnes ~atas vel tentas ultra sesonam Doc. Bev. 28.

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