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Definition of Seminarist
1. Noun. A student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Educatee, Pupil, Student
Derivative terms: Seminary, Seminary
Definition of Seminarist
1. Noun. A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary. ¹
2. Noun. (rare) A member of a seminar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seminarist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seminarist
| seminar seminarian seminarians seminaries seminarist (current term) seminarists seminarlike seminarrative seminars seminated | seminates semination seminationalized seminations seminatural |
Literary usage of Seminarist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet by Evariste Régis Huc (1857)
"MARTYRDOM OF A CHINESE seminarist. — PEACE IS RESTORED. THE admiration of the
Chinese for the knowledge and virtues of the missionaries was not always a ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1868)
"... was also a seminarist. How is it that only seminarists, and not men of any
other extraction, erected the standard of Radicalism ? ..."
3. Death and Its Mystery by Camille Flammarion (1922)
"When the train had started, Signore Fischetti asked the seminarist what his
destination ... One may imagine the grief and disappointment of the seminarist! ..."
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