seminaristn.
/ˈsɛmɪnəˌrɪst/ 1. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary in the 16th and 17th centuries, esp. at Douay for the English mission. Now Historical.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in > foreign, esp. Douai
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1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. v. 147 One who hath more profited the Church of God, with his sincere translation, and learned annotations, than all the popish Seminaries, and Seminarists, shall be able to hinder it.
1679 E. Everard Depositions Popish Plot 1 I surprized her with two of the chief Scotch Seminarists of Paris.
1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 4 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Romish regular Clerici, Cannon Regulars, Theatins, Oratorians, Seminarists, Chapterists, &c.
1826 H. D. Best Four Years France 6 The story of the poor seminarist of Douay.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 308 The seminarists were universally revered as candidates of martyrdom.
2.
a. A student in a seminary; chiefly, a student in a seminary for the training of Roman Catholic priests.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in
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1835 W. Beckford Excurs. Alcobaça & Batalha 90 A tide of monks, sacristans, novices, seminarists..appeared all of a sudden flowing forth from every cell and cloister.
1862 Westm. Rev. Jan. 185 The greatest stress is laid [in Prussian training-colleges] on learning by heart. The seminarist must be able to repeat without book all the Scripture histories read in the school.
1877 D. M. Wallace Russia iv. 52 The Bishop does the same for all the seminarists who wish to be ordained.
b. plural. The teaching staff in a seminary.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > staff of
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1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 118 This Church now belongs to the Seminarists of the German Colledge.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. 56 Shortly the Seminarists reported that, though not vicious, their pupil was not even good enough for a priest, so deficient was he in intellectual faculty.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 24/1 He was sent to the seminarists of St. Lazare to be improved in classics.
3. A member of a seminar n.2
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > group under tutor > member of
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1865 M. Pattison in N. Brit. Rev. 42 252 A Göttingen student could not carry with him into the world any better recommendation than to have been one of Heyne's seminarists.
1882–3 Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 2497/2 [Wessenberg] sent his seminarists to Pestalozzi to learn the new method of instruction.
1972 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 17 For a fee of £60, seminarists will be impressed with the need for strategic plans for growth..over the next decade, fed but not accommodated.
Derivatives
seminaˈristic adj. of or pertaining to a seminary priest.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [adjective] > of a seminarist
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1841 Fraser's Mag. 24 299 The mixture of seminaristic modesty and nautical devil-may-care-ishness..caused me to laugh outright.
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