seminarianadj.n.
/sɛmɪˈnɛːrɪən/ rare.† A. adj.
= seminary adj.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [adjective]
seminarian1584
seminarial1762
1584 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Province Soc. of Jesus (1880) VI. 722 Martin Array, a Seminarian priest.
B. n.† 1. A seminary priest. Obsolete.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in
seminary1581
seminary-man1581
seminary-priest1581
seminarian1584
seminant1587
seminarist1835
society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in > foreign, esp. Douai
seminarist1583
seminarian1794
1584 in H. Foley Rec. Eng. Province Soc. of Jesus (1880) VI. 721 Lane, of Fisheborne receiveth Correy, a Seminarian.
1794 tr. A. Barruel Hist. Clergy during French Revol. iii. 27 At eight o'clock in the morning the clergymen of St. Nicolas..were dragged with their seminarians to the house of St. Firmin.
2. A student at a seminary or Jesuit school, a seminarist.
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1908 G. Tyrrell in Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 254 In protecting the seminarian from the knowledge of awkward facts.
Derivatives
semiˈnarianism n. the mannerism of a seminarian.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in > manner of
seminarianism1879
1879 W. M. Baker His Majesty Myself (1880) xviii. 139 (Funk) ‘He, at least, has no seminarianism about him’ she said, incidentally to Revel.
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