Hypertext Webster Gateway: "seminary"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, a. [L. seminarius.]
Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seminary \Sem"i*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Seminaries}. [L. seminarium,
fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed.
See {Seminal}.]
1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants
for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.]
--Mortimer.
But if you draw them [seedling] only for the
thinning of your seminary, prick them into some
empty beds. --Evelyn.
2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is
brought or produced. [Obs.] --Woodward.
3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an
academy, college, or university.
4. Seminal state. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] --Harvey.
6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a
seminarist. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Seminar \Sem`i*nar"\, n. [G. See {Seminary}, n.]
A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an
instructor, in original research in a particular line of
study, and in the exposition of the results by theses,
lectures, etc.; -- called also {seminary}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
seminary
n 1: a private place of education for the young
2: a theological school for training ministers or priests or
rabbis
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