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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. STERILadjective

    Barren; unfruitful; not productive; wanting fecundity.

    Etymology: sterile, French; sterilis, Latin

    Our elders say,
    The barren, touched in this holy chase,
    Shake off their steril curse. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

    Thy sea marge steril, and rocky hard. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

    In very steril years corn sown will grow to another kind. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    To separate seeds, put them in water: such as are corrupted and steril swim. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

    She is grown steril and barren, and her births of animals are now very inconsiderable. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.

    When the vegetative stratum was once washed off by rains, the hills would have become barren, the strata below yielding only mere sterile and mineral matter, such as was inept for the formation of vegetables. John Woodward.

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  1. Steril

    Steril is an electronic musician releasing music on International Deejay Gigolo Records, Lasergun, Erkrankung Durch Musique and Richard Bartz' Kurbel Records. He was also known under the alias "Latex" between 2001 and 2003.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of steril in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of steril in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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