Definition of Seminary

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Seminary

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

Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.

A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

Seminal state.

Fig.: A seed bed; a source.

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

Belonging to seed; seminal.

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Seminary Quotations

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
Josef Albers

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
Johnny Vegas

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
Daniel Berrigan

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
Peter Jurasik

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time.
Maria Monk

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
Clayton Christensen

That was my aspiration, so I was there in a seminary with just boys who were studying to be priests. Pretty rigorous schooling; we never got home, we stayed there all year.
Peter Jurasik

Seminary Translations

seminary in German is Seminar, Bildungsanstalt
seminary in Swedish is seminarium

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