seminary

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.

2. 2

   A private residential school for girls.

   • Three little maids who, all unwary, Come from a ladies' seminary
3. 3

   A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular…

   A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.

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   1. 4

      A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.

      • I shall first begin with the Seminary and Nursery, as what is the first Work to be taken care of where you have not the opportunity of buying Trees
      • [B]ut if you draw them [seedlings] only for the thinning of your Seminary, prick them into ſome empty Beds at one foot interval, leaving the reſt at two or three.
   2. 5

      The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.

      • the Seminary or Promptuary that furnisheth forth Matter for the Formation and Increment of Animal and Vegetable Bodies
   3. 6

      Seminal state or polity.

      • The hand of God that first created the Earth, hath with variety disposed the principles of all things; wisely contriving them in their proper seminaries
   4. 7

      A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary

      A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.

      • I shall not need to instance in the effects which this bull produced; the treason of Watson and Cleark, two English seminaries, are sufficiently known
   5. 8

      An academic seminar.

   6. 9

      Of or relating to seed

      Of or relating to seed; seminal.

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