a. Obs. Also 5 spermatycall, 6 sparmaticall. [See prec. and -AL.]

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  1.  = SPERMATIC a. 2.

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1471.  Ripley, Comp. Alch., VI. xviii. in Ashm. (1652), 165. Yt thus fro thyng to thyng was alterat…; And so our Mater spermatycall wythin one Glas Wythin hyt selfe must turne fro thyng to thyng.

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1655.  in Hartlib, Ref. Commw. Bees, 22. A tender spermatical milk enclosed in a most tender skin.

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  2.  = SPERMATIC a. 3.

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1562.  Bullein, Bulwarke, Dial. betw. Sorenes & Chir., 22. Members, whiche Phisicians call sparmaticall, beyng ones loosed, will not be ioyned again.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 697. Euery Similar part is either Spermaticall or fleshie.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. xii. marg. note. A nerve is a spermaticall part rising from the brain and the pith of the back-bone.

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1668.  Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., Introd. All these parts are commonly divided into Spermatical, Sanguine or mixt.

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  3.  Endowed with sperm or semen.

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, VII. iii. 260. Liber and Libera [gods] of the distillation of seede in all spermaticall creatures.

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  4.  = SPERMATIC a. 1.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 217. The spermaticall vessels which bring the seede from the whole bodye … are foure. Ibid., 837. The left Emulgent also is larger then the right, because of the Spermatical veine which was to arise therefrom.

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1621.  Lodge, Summary Du Bartas, I. 269. The spermaticall, or seede Vessels.

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  5.  = SPERMATIC a. 4.

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. I. ii. 25. Both what hight form spermaticall Hath here a share, as also that we term Soul sensitive.

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a. 1652.  J. Smith, Sel. Disc., VII. iv. (1660), 309. Like the Spermatical virtue of the Heavens, which spreads it self freely upon this Lower World.

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1682.  H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Lux Orient, 119. We have … reason … to suppose this Vital or Spermatical Law is amongst the rest.

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