supersemination

English

Etymology

super- +‎ semination

Noun

supersemination (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The sowing of seed over seed previously sown.
   • 1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism:

     No good Christian can diſlike the Husbandſman's sowing of wheat, but every good Christian doth diſlike the envious man's ſuperſemination

References

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