superseminate

From super- +‎ seminate.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsuːpə(ɹ)ˈsɛmɪneɪt/

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superseminate (third-person singular simple present superseminates, present participle superseminating, simple past and past participle superseminated)

1. (obsolete) To sow over something previously sown.
   • 1650 [1620], Nicolas Caussin, translated by Sir Thomas Hawkins, The Holy Court‎^[1], 3 (The Angel of Peace to All Christian Princes), William Bentley, page 4:

     Would to God that that Charity which is diffused in us by the spirit, would suffocate these superseminated tares of contentions...

   • 1826 [1637], Edward Reynolds, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich‎^[2], volume IV, London: B. Holdsworth, Sermon II. The Peace of the Church, page 295:

     While there is corruption in our nature,—narrowness in our faculties,—sleepiness in our eyes,—difficulty in our profession,—cunning in our enemies, δυσνόητα, 'hard things in the scriptures,'—and an envious man to superseminate; there will still be τί ἑτέρως φρονοῦντες, 'men that will be differently minded.'

   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section III”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 15, page 20:

     [T]hey that have the guiding of ſouls muſt remember that they […] muſt render an account; and that cannot be done with joy, when it ſhall be indifferent to any man to ſuperſeminate what he pleaſe; […]

   • 1690, Christopher Ness, “VII. Of Cain and Abel”, in A Compleat History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament‎^[3], volume I, London: T. Snowden, page 67:

     The field is first sown with good Corn, and then the Envious one comes after to super-seminate and sow his Tares of Idolatry, Superstition and Heresie, where true religion was sown before...

   • 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria : A Discourse of Sallets.‎^[4], London: B. Tooke, pages 134, 135:

     Dr. Lister, (according to his communicative and obliging Nature) has taught us how to raise such as our Gardiners cover with nasty Litter, during the Winter; by rather laying of Clean and Sweet Wheat-Straw upon the Beds, super-seminating and over-strowing them thick with the Powder of bruised Oyster-Shells, &c. to produce that most tender and delicious Sallet.

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

supersēmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of supersēminō