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- noun Plural form of
seminal .
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Enforcement of that code led to disclaimers and deleted scenes in seminals films such as “Scarface,” “Public Enemy” and “Little Caesar,” which was inspired by Al Capone.
Gangster Love 2009
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Enforcement of that code led to disclaimers and deleted scenes in seminals films such as “Scarface,” “Public Enemy” and “Little Caesar,” which was inspired by Al Capone.
Gangster Love 2009
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To pursue the osseous and solid part of goodness, which gives stability and rectitude to all the rest; to settle on fundamental virtues, and bid early defiance unto mother-vices, which carry in their bowels the seminals of other iniquities; makes a short cut in goodness, and strikes not off an head but the whole neck of Hydra.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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"I was of opinion that it consisted altogether in the urethra being closely shut by the vigour of the erection in coition which found so great a resistance that the powers that throw the seed out of the _vesiculæ seminals_ could not overcome it; whereas, in dreams, the pressure on the urethra being much less, an evacuation was affected."
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833
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