seminal

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English seminal, semynal, from Old French seminal, seminale, from Latin sēminālis.

[Greek: logos spermatikos], seminal principle. — Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Ideas themselves he considered as mysterious powers, living, seminal, formative, and exempt from time. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mill called a "seminal mind," and his thought had that power of stimulating thought in others which is the mark and the privilege of original genius. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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