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seminary

Part of Speech: Noun

Results: 7

            1.                                           Belonging                                                         to                                                         seed;                                                         seminal.                                    
Part of Speech: noun

            1.                                             A                                                         piece                                                         of                                                         ground                                                         where                                                         seed                                                         is                                                           sown                                                         for                                                           producing                                                           plants                                                         for                                                         transplantation;                                                           a                                                         nursery;                                                           a                                                         seed                                                         plat.                                    

            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.                                           Fig.:                                                           A                                                         seed                                                         bed;                                                           a                                                           source.                                    

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

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Over this seminary of learning were to preside a master and usher, whose united income seems to have been only twenty pounds per annum. - "An History of Birmingham (1783)", William Hutton.
A young man, regularly acknowledged by the Bishop as a candidate for orders, and in consequence of such acknowledgment entitled, by an express statute of the seminary, to admission to its privileges, presented himself as a pupil. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
Also one in the third year of his course at a theological seminary. - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.

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