[f. as prec. + CAST v.]
1. To scatter (seed, etc.) abroad with the hand.
1813. A. Young, Essex Agric., I. 333. They sow … the barley … spraining the first [half]; and broad-casting the second.
1836. Montgomery, Poet’s Portfolio, 248. Sow in the morn thy seed … Broad-cast it o’er the land.
1846. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VII. II. 591. It is preferable to broadcast the guano.
2. fig. To scatter or disseminate widely.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., iv. 270. The doctrine of missionary zeal … has been broadcast over Christendom.
1880. Ruskin, Lett. to Clergy, 369. Showing his detestation of the sale of indulgences by broadcasting these gratis from his pulpit.
