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Definition of Seminary
1. Noun. A private place of education for the young.
2. Noun. A theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis.
Definition of Seminary
1. n. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
2. a. Belonging to seed; seminal.
Definition of Seminary
1. Noun. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers. ¹
2. Noun. A private residential school for girls. ¹
3. Noun. (Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seminary
1. a school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis [n -NARIES]
Medical Definition of Seminary
1. Origin: L. Seminarium, fr. Seminarius belonging to seed, fr. Semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal. 1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. "But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds." (Evelyn) 2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. 3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university. 4. Seminal state. 5. A seed bed; a source. 6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. Belonging to seed; seminal. Origin: L. Seminarius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seminary
| seminar seminarian seminarians seminaries seminarist seminarists seminarlike seminarrative seminars seminated | seminates semination seminationalized seminations seminatural seminification |
Literary usage of Seminary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"They have felt that the purpose of the Tridentine Decree would be defeated if
residence in the seminary were left to the option of the students. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The diocesan seminary of New York was transferred (1836) from Nyack to ...
In 1864 a seminary was opened at Troy for the provinces of New York and Boston; ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"After three years' study in the seminary he received tonsure and minor orders from
... Simon Gabriel Brute, one of the professors of the seminary, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"On 20June, 1820,he entered Mount St.Mary's seminary, Emmitsburg. His previous
knowledge of the classics made it an easy task for him to take charge of ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"After three years' study in the seminary he received tonsure and minor orders from
... Simon Gabriel Brute, one of the professors of the seminary, ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"CHICAGO THEOLOGICAL seminary т. ILLINOIS ea reí. RAYMOND. longing or appertaining
to the seminary wae meant by § 6. We think this position is based upon a ..."
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