Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inseminate \In*sem"i*nate\, v. t. [L. inseminatus, p. p. of inseminare to sow. See Seminate.]
To sow seed into. [Obs.]
To sow seed into; to impregnate.
To implant in, as if sowing seed; as, to inseminate one's children with one's own prejudices; -- used mostly of ideas or attitudes..
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to cast as seed," from Latin inseminatus, past participle of inseminare "to sow, implant," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + semen (genitive semenis) "seed." Meaning "to impregnate with semen" is attested from 1923. Related: Inseminated; inseminating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To sow (to disperse or plant seeds). 2 To impregnate (to cause to become pregnant).
WordNet
Usage examples of "inseminate".
To use a high-class, pedigree, proven bull to inseminate large numbers of cows for farmers who could never afford to own such an animal was and is a splendid idea.
We take female rabbits ready to conceive and place in their uterus the inseminated Simmental ova, which grow there just as well as they would in the uterus of a cow.
Graham producing fresh sperm and Amanda being artificially inseminated.
Like a million fireflies, sparks fly across the dark city, inseminating every place they land with a germ of fire.
That ovary, of course, became a testicle, but - with a bit of cellular finessing and some intricate plumbing - the fertilised egg could remain safe, viable and unchanging in the testicle while that organ did its bit in inseminating the woman who had been a man and whose sperm had done the original fertilising.
Helva herself had been the naturally inseminated child of her parents.
Six more bitches and the other two female cats would be in heat soon and would shortly be inseminated or receive embryos.
Grandpa used cryogenically stored sperm to have my ovum inseminated in vitro ten years after my father died.
They hadn't considered that Tinker was anything but a naturally inseminated child.
Which means that Jesus was his own father and Mary was inseminated by her own, as yet unborn, son.
All the animals were female, so that they could be inseminated from the stock of frozen sperm that had accompanied them across three hundred light-years from Earth.
Certainly the sheep would be mature enough to be inseminated in a few more months.
Ransome is to be believed—and I have never had any reason to doubt her—eventually about 30% of the inseminated Zeta girls produced live offspring.
You think somehow Mom got inseminated by the devil, but it is what it is.
And the phallus of Osiris lives forever in the Nile, and the water of the Nile inseminates the Mother Egypt eternally, death giving birth to life with the blessing of Mother Isis.