Sulpiciann.adj.
/sʌlˈpɪʃ(ɪ)ən/ Ecclesiastical.
One of a congregation of secular priests founded in Paris in 1642 by the Abbé Olier, priest of the parish of St. Sulpice, mainly for the training of candidates for holy orders; as adj., belonging to this congregation.
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Sulpician1892
1786 in tr. J.-A. Dulaure Pogonologia p. iii (note) The Sulpicians alone have withstood this fashion with a laudable resolution.
1850 J. H. Newman Lect. Diffic. Anglicans (1891) I. i. x. 322 A school of opinion..withstood by the Society of Jesus and the Sulpicians.
1892 Month Nov. 312 The Sulpician seminary at Issy.
1904 Q. Rev. Jan. 289 A text-book written by a Sulpician and published under the imprimatur of the Archbishop of New York.
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