seminaryn.¹

/ˈsɛmɪnəri/

Forms: Middle English seminari, semynari, Middle English–1500s semynary, Middle English–1600s seminarie, 1500s seminarye, ( semenarie, semenarye, semynarie, seameanary, plural Scottish seminareis), (1600s semenary), 1500s– seminary. See also seminair(e n., seminar n.¹

Etymology: < Latin sēminārium seed-plot (also figurative), originally neuter of sēminārius seminary adj. Compare French séminaire, Spanish seminario, Portuguese seminario, Italian seminario, German seminar.

†1.

a. A piece of ground in which plants are sown (or raised from cuttings, etc.) to be afterwards transplanted; a seed-plot. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]

welleOE

mothereOE

ordeOE

wellspringeOE

fathereOE

headeOE

oreOE

wellspringOE

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Quelle1893

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > seed-bed

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seminaryc1440

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seedbed1660

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 480 Let set in to thy semynari bliue Oliues bowis vj feet long or fiue.

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 489, iv. 558.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. x. 510 Concerning seminaries and nource-gardens.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 46 Then taking your grafted trees out of the Seminary, you shall transplant them into this Nursery.

1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 185 For Apple-tree Seminaries, plant the Wildings grown from the Kernels... For a Seminary of Plumbs, plant the Suckers of their several kinds.

1778 R. Weston Gardener's & Planter's Cal. (ed. 2) 80 The Nursery and Seminary.

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 47 They have become mere seminaries..and for raising dwarf trees.

†b. transferred.

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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Hh4^v In that same Gardin all the goodly flowres, Wherewith dame Nature doth her beautify,..Are fetcht: there is the first seminary Of all things, that are borne to liue and dye.

1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 29 The ground itself from its own seminary sent out the supposititious crop of oates.

†2. transferred. A place where animals are bred; a region which supplies (some kind of animal). Also, a stock or breed (of animal). Obsolete.

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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed

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breed1553

seminary1607

strain1607

thoroughbredness1846

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > place where animals bred

seminary1607

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 21 He that will haue a good flocke of Asses, must looke that the male and female be sounde,..and out of a good seminary, as of Arcadia or Rea.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 69 Very great and large oxen, which the inhabitants cal Pyrhicæ, because that their first stocke or seminary were kept by King Pirrhus.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. Illustr. 99 The whole tract is a Seminary of Horses.

1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 197 Man's rotten Carcase becomes a Seminary of Worms.

3. figurative.

a. A place of origin and early development; a place or thing in which something (e.g. an art or science, a virtue or vice) is developed or cultivated, or from which it is propagated abundantly.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > place of origin and early development

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promptuary?a1425

seminairc1440

nursery1509

matrice1555

seed plot1556

matrix1586

seminary1592

seedbed1618

nidus1807

whence1832

breeding-place1841

breeding-ground1856

breeding range1890

whenceness1922

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 79^v My insatiable and wanton eyes..whome I founde the seminaries and moouers of all so great strife and trouble, in my..heart.

1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. B4^v Thyne eyes (those Semynaries of my griefe).

1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe 190 That the seminaries of Poetrie should be the chiefe nurses of Idolatry argues how apt the one is to bring forth the other.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 308 God..hath with variety disposed the principles of all things; wisely contriving them in their proper seminaries, and where they best maintaine the intention of their species.

a1656 J. Ussher Power of Princes (1683) ii. 156 The bloud of this noble Army of Martyrs became the fruitful seminary thereof.

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 120 If Gentlemens families were so ordered, as to become Seminaries of Industry and Sobriety.

1696 W. Whiston Disc. conc. Mosaick Hist. Creation 88 in New Theory of Earth The Chaos, that known fund and seminary of the Six Days Creation.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) 95 All which demonstrates the air to be a common seminary and receptacle of all vivifying principles.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 98 The virtues which guard the natural seminaries of the affections are their only true and lasting friends.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 112 The Council chamber at Edinburgh had been..a seminary of all public and all private vices.

1864 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows end We are profoundly thankful for the omission of a glossary. It would have been a nursery and seminary of blunder.

b. A place, country, society, condition of things, or the like, in which some particular class of persons are produced or trained.

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society > education > place of education > [noun]

schoolOE

universityc1300

academyc1550

nursery1581

training place1581

seminarya1604

cathedral1644

teaching house1849

separate school1852

nursing home1880

stable1942

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 53 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The seminarie or Bee-hive of many thousands of Monkes.

1615 E. S. Britaines Busse E 2 By which meanes euery Busse shall be a Seminary of Saylors and Fishers also, for so shall euery busse breede and make Sixe new Marriners.

a1626 F. Bacon Notes Speech War with Spain in Wks. (1826) V. 234 There is not, in the world again, such a spring and seminary of military people as is England, Scotland, and Ireland.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C3^v These Netherland Wars, were the Queenes Seminaries Nursery, of very many brave Souldiers.

1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 762 The north used to be the seminary of Henry's and Margaret's forces, supplying them constantly with fresh recruits.

1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 21 In the seventh century St. Vincent..invited many holy monks from Ireland and Scotland, then seminaries of saints, into the Netherlands.

1876 J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands v. 309 What had once been..the seminary of a stout Celtic people, and the nursery of a brave British army.

†c. A continuous supply (of a class of persons).

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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > of people > continuous

seminary1652

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Qqq6 And..from hence supply themselves with a perpetuall Seminary of slaves and Souldiers.

4. A place of education, a school, college, university, or the like; often explicitly (cf. 3a) seminary of learning, seminary of science, etc. Also in more specific sense (cf. 3b) an institution for the training of those destined for some particular profession.Ladies' seminary: see ladies' seminary n. at lady n. Compounds 3b.‘In the earlier half of the 19th cent. ‘Seminary for Young Ladies’ was very common as the designation of a private school for girls. This use is perhaps not wholly obsolete, but is no longer in repute.’ N.E.D.

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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution

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learning-place1517

pedagogy1571

learning-seat1584

seminary1585

Academe1598

phrontisterion1615

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thinking-shop1837

centre of learning1844

1585 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. IV. 2 Universiteis and seminareis for instructioun of craftie personis.

1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 62 This schole is principallie ordained a seminarie for bringinge up of christian children.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff2^v A Schoole which hath beene a most fruitfull seminarie of many excellent learned men.

1628 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 307 This Royal Seminary [Eton].

1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xxiii. 146 He was preferred to be Master of Westminster School, a most famous seminarie of learning.

1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 542 I..admired the order, Oeconomie, & excellent government of this most charitable seminary [sc. Christ's Hospital].

1709 J. Swift Project Advancem. Relig. 30 As for the Inns of Court,..they must needs be the worst instituted Seminaries in any Christian Country.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 436 They were made use of for seminaries, where young people were educated.

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 524 That a nation..should..have established so flourishing a seminary of learning.

1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 9 The seminary to which Mr. Cavendish conducted his son could not properly be termed a school.

1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 71 A lady who believes herself to have been the favourite of the heads of one of the most numerous seminaries in England.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvii. 265 To place his daughter in a seminary for female education.

1817 Sporting Mag. 50 13 The modern metaphorical refinement of styling a school a seminary which may be now seen in many a blind alley of London.

1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton i. 4 At the usual age he was sent to two day-schools at Skillington and Stoke, where he acquired the education which such seminaries afforded.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. iii. 102 Young Walter spent one hour daily at a small separate seminary of writing and arithmetic.

1840 J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. II. 452 The interests of society demand, that the number of the greater seminaries of science should be few.

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 201 That famous seminary [Aberdeen University].

a. Roman Catholic Church A school or college for training persons for the priesthood. In 16–17th centuries often used with reference to those institutions engaged in the training of priests for the English mission.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun]

seminar1573

seminary1581

seminary college1581

theologate1879

1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise Epist. f. 9 He hes not neglectit ye occasion offrit to plant sindrie learnit and godlie ȝong men in a publik seminarie.

1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. d3 Hearing that there was a Seminary not longe before begonne in Doway.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Aij^v At the last, hearing the Schollers of the English Seminarie merrie, as they returned from their Vineyarde..I stole out of Rome by night [etc.].

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Seminary..a Colledge approved for the education of Priests of the Romish Church, who were to propagate their Doctrine in England, or other Parts of a different perswasion.

1716 in Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics of 1715 (1889) 148 John is now in some Popish seminary abroad.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 16 For monasteries, we should read convents, mission-houses, and seminaries.

b. attributive, as in seminary †college, seminary-man, seminary-priest.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun]

seminar1573

seminary1581

seminary college1581

theologate1879

society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in

seminary1581

seminary-man1581

seminary-priest1581

seminarian1584

seminant1587

seminarist1835

1581 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 20 William thorley..was brought uppe in a Semynary College at Reames iij yeares.

1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. C7^v Confessing boldly him self to be a Catholike, a Priest, and a Seminarie man of Rhemes.

1582 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 26 He is now w^thin this moneth returned a Seameanary preest from Rheames.

1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely 5 [The Emperors of the House of Austria] filled their Countreys with Missionaries, or Seminary Priests, as we call them.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. i, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 542 He drove many of the seminary priests out of the kingdom.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 23 Giles Gosling..was at one time inclined to suspect his guest of being a Jesuit, or seminary priest.

6. = seminar n.² Also attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > group under tutor

side1837

seminar1889

seminary1889

1889 Academy 17 Aug. 103/2 The ‘seminary’ system seems to be making way [at Harvard]... The seminary is an association of the teachers, fellows, and scholars..for the prosecution of original studies by means of discussion and criticism.

1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Seminary course.

†7.

a. Short for seminary-priest at sense 5b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in

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seminarist1835

1581 W. Charke Replie to Censure sig. Iiii This should be a note not only to those Iesuites, but to al whatsoeuer they be, Iesuites, or Seminaries or massepriestes, or what persons soeuer.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares Q iii b The Romish Seminaries haue not allured vnto them so many good wits as Atheisme.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. i. 17 in Wks. II A while agone, they made mee, yea me, to mistake an honest zealous Pursiuant, for a Seminary.

1685 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 162 M^r Ll. Jenkyns was imprison'd for a seminary.

b. Often treated as a noun use of seminary adj., with the sense ‘one who sows the seed’ (of Roman Catholic doctrine). See seminary adj. 2 and seminary n.² 2.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes

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Philip1613

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1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. A.iii^v These Seminaries or seedemen and Iesuites..haue..laboured..to perswade the people.

1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 2 Their yong frye of Seminaries and seed-men, which are trained up under them, see not with their owne eyes.

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† seminaryadj.n.²

Etymology: < Latin sēminārius, < sēmin- seed: see semen n.

Obsolete.

A. adj.

1. = seminal adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > original or that is the seed

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seminary1592

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seminiala1676

panspermatic1690

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [adjective] > seminal or spermatic ducts

spermatic1541

seminary1592

spermatical1615

seminiferous1828

seminiferal1840

spermatiferous1862

parepididymal1890

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > supposed reproductive particles

seminary1592

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > sperm > semen

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seminary1592

parastatic1693

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. K ^v They [sc. spirits] so comprehend those seminarie vertues to men vnknown, that those things which, in course of time,..Nature of it selfe can effect. They..can contriue and compasse in a moment.

1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 179 That which the point is in the Mathematicks, the same is the seminarie power in the Phisickes.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 219 Aristotle..would haue that humor which is auoyded by the necke of the matrix not to bee a seminarie or seedy humour.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 233 The Testes and seminary vessels.

1671 J. Webster Metallographia ii. 33 Especially in declaring the root and seminary power of Metals.

1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. iv. 306 The Seminary Particles in the Ova.

a1742 G. Martin in Med. Ess. Edinb. V. 231 The seminary Blood-vessels.

2. Occupied in sowing seed. figurative with allusion to seminary n.¹ 7.

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society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [adjective]

evangelizingc1384

gospelling1566

seminary1609

evangelisticala1651

evangelical1651

gracy1848

evangelistic1860

come-to-Jesus1876

1609 Bible (Douay) I. To Rdr. †6 And so [he]..calleth the other Apostles Messores, Reapers, and S. Paul, being specially sent to the Gentiles, Seminatorem a Sower, or Seminarie Apostle.

1641 J. Gauden Love of Truth 25 Fortifying truth, against the Seminary incursions of those, that seeke to encroach upon its ancient bounds.

B. n.² (From absolute uses of the adjective.)

a. A germ, embryo, seminal particle.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > germ cell or mass

seminary1671

germinal cell1840

germ mass1840

germ cell1842

cleavage-mass1871

cleavage-cell1879

cleavage-globule1879

gastrodisc1881

blastule1882

1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 40 Plants were not created perfect at first, but only in their seminaries.

b. spec. The morbific matter or principle (of a disease); plural germs (of infection). Cf. seminal n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > morbific principles

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infection1539

seminary1604

fomes1660

fomite1860

1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat To Rdr. sig. A4 The foure windes..bring..diuers affections..of the aire, and especially contagious seminaries.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 244 In whom there lies hid the Seminary of a disease.

1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 9 Houses built upon a clay and foggy ground are more subject to conceive pestilent Seminaries.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 202 The Plague, whose fomes, seminary, or contagion you will never cast out of the Body, except by [Alexitericks or Sudorificks].

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. vii. 229/1 Dedicated to the Kidneys and Bladder, not only to evacuate what is viscous and sandy in them, but also to remove the Seminary thereof, and hinder,..the farther Generations of Sand, Gravel, or Stones.

2. A sower of seed. Only figurative, chiefly with punning allusion to seminary n.¹ 7.

ΚΠ

1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. A.iii^v These Seminaries or seedemen and Iesuites..haue..laboured..to perswade the people.

1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 2 Their yong frye of Seminaries and seed-men, which are trained up under them, see not with their owne eyes.]

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 450 A Pettifogger..is a Law-seminary, that sows Tares amongst Friends to entangle them in Contention with one another.

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单词	seminary
释义	seminaryn.¹ /ˈsɛmɪnəri/ Forms: Middle English seminari, semynari, Middle English–1500s semynary, Middle English–1600s seminarie, 1500s seminarye, ( semenarie, semenarye, semynarie, seameanary, plural Scottish seminareis), (1600s semenary), 1500s– seminary. See also seminair(e n., seminar n.¹ Etymology: < Latin sēminārium seed-plot (also figurative), originally neuter of sēminārius seminary adj. Compare French séminaire, Spanish seminario, Portuguese seminario, Italian seminario, German seminar. †1. a. A piece of ground in which plants are sown (or raised from cuttings, etc.) to be afterwards transplanted; a seed-plot. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 Quelle1893 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > seed-bed seminairc1440 seminaryc1440 seed plot1577 seedbed1660 c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 480 Let set in to thy semynari bliue Oliues bowis vj feet long or fiue. c1440 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 489, iv. 558. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. x. 510 Concerning seminaries and nource-gardens. 1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 46 Then taking your grafted trees out of the Seminary, you shall transplant them into this Nursery. 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 185 For Apple-tree Seminaries, plant the Wildings grown from the Kernels... For a Seminary of Plumbs, plant the Suckers of their several kinds. 1778 R. Weston Gardener's & Planter's Cal. (ed. 2) 80 The Nursery and Seminary. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 47 They have become mere seminaries..and for raising dwarf trees. †b. transferred. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Hh4^v In that same Gardin all the goodly flowres, Wherewith dame Nature doth her beautify,..Are fetcht: there is the first seminary Of all things, that are borne to liue and dye. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 29 The ground itself from its own seminary sent out the supposititious crop of oates. †2. transferred. A place where animals are bred; a region which supplies (some kind of animal). Also, a stock or breed (of animal). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > stock or breed lineagea1500 breed1553 seminary1607 strain1607 thoroughbredness1846 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > place where animals bred seminary1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 21 He that will haue a good flocke of Asses, must looke that the male and female be sounde,..and out of a good seminary, as of Arcadia or Rea. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 69 Very great and large oxen, which the inhabitants cal Pyrhicæ, because that their first stocke or seminary were kept by King Pirrhus. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion vi. Illustr. 99 The whole tract is a Seminary of Horses. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 197 Man's rotten Carcase becomes a Seminary of Worms. 3. figurative. a. A place of origin and early development; a place or thing in which something (e.g. an art or science, a virtue or vice) is developed or cultivated, or from which it is propagated abundantly. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > place of origin and early development wombc1400 promptuary?a1425 seminairc1440 nursery1509 matrice1555 seed plot1556 matrix1586 seminary1592 seedbed1618 nidus1807 whence1832 breeding-place1841 breeding-ground1856 breeding range1890 whenceness1922 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 79^v My insatiable and wanton eyes..whome I founde the seminaries and moouers of all so great strife and trouble, in my..heart. 1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. B4^v Thyne eyes (those Semynaries of my griefe). 1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe 190 That the seminaries of Poetrie should be the chiefe nurses of Idolatry argues how apt the one is to bring forth the other. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 308 God..hath with variety disposed the principles of all things; wisely contriving them in their proper seminaries, and where they best maintaine the intention of their species. View more context for this quotation a1656 J. Ussher Power of Princes (1683) ii. 156 The bloud of this noble Army of Martyrs became the fruitful seminary thereof. 1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 120 If Gentlemens families were so ordered, as to become Seminaries of Industry and Sobriety. 1696 W. Whiston Disc. conc. Mosaick Hist. Creation 88 in New Theory of Earth The Chaos, that known fund and seminary of the Six Days Creation. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) 95 All which demonstrates the air to be a common seminary and receptacle of all vivifying principles. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 98 The virtues which guard the natural seminaries of the affections are their only true and lasting friends. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 112 The Council chamber at Edinburgh had been..a seminary of all public and all private vices. 1864 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows end We are profoundly thankful for the omission of a glossary. It would have been a nursery and seminary of blunder. b. A place, country, society, condition of things, or the like, in which some particular class of persons are produced or trained. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] schoolOE universityc1300 academyc1550 nursery1581 training place1581 seminarya1604 cathedral1644 teaching house1849 separate school1852 nursing home1880 stable1942 a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 53 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The seminarie or Bee-hive of many thousands of Monkes. 1615 E. S. Britaines Busse E 2 By which meanes euery Busse shall be a Seminary of Saylors and Fishers also, for so shall euery busse breede and make Sixe new Marriners. a1626 F. Bacon Notes Speech War with Spain in Wks. (1826) V. 234 There is not, in the world again, such a spring and seminary of military people as is England, Scotland, and Ireland. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C3^v These Netherland Wars, were the Queenes Seminaries Nursery, of very many brave Souldiers. 1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 762 The north used to be the seminary of Henry's and Margaret's forces, supplying them constantly with fresh recruits. 1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 21 In the seventh century St. Vincent..invited many holy monks from Ireland and Scotland, then seminaries of saints, into the Netherlands. 1876 J. S. Blackie Lang. & Lit. Sc. Highlands v. 309 What had once been..the seminary of a stout Celtic people, and the nursery of a brave British army. †c. A continuous supply (of a class of persons). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > of people > continuous seminary1652 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Qqq6 And..from hence supply themselves with a perpetuall Seminary of slaves and Souldiers. 4. A place of education, a school, college, university, or the like; often explicitly (cf. 3a) seminary of learning, seminary of science, etc. Also in more specific sense (cf. 3b) an institution for the training of those destined for some particular profession.Ladies' seminary: see ladies' seminary n. at lady n. Compounds 3b.‘In the earlier half of the 19th cent. ‘Seminary for Young Ladies’ was very common as the designation of a private school for girls. This use is perhaps not wholly obsolete, but is no longer in repute.’ N.E.D. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution studya1382 school1440 learning-place1517 pedagogy1571 learning-seat1584 seminary1585 Academe1598 phrontisterion1615 phrontistery1623 pedagoguery1820 thinking-shop1837 centre of learning1844 1585 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. IV. 2 Universiteis and seminareis for instructioun of craftie personis. 1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 62 This schole is principallie ordained a seminarie for bringinge up of christian children. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Ff2^v A Schoole which hath beene a most fruitfull seminarie of many excellent learned men. 1628 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 307 This Royal Seminary [Eton]. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xxiii. 146 He was preferred to be Master of Westminster School, a most famous seminarie of learning. 1687 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 542 I..admired the order, Oeconomie, & excellent government of this most charitable seminary [sc. Christ's Hospital]. 1709 J. Swift Project Advancem. Relig. 30 As for the Inns of Court,..they must needs be the worst instituted Seminaries in any Christian Country. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 436 They were made use of for seminaries, where young people were educated. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 524 That a nation..should..have established so flourishing a seminary of learning. 1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales III. 9 The seminary to which Mr. Cavendish conducted his son could not properly be termed a school. 1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 71 A lady who believes herself to have been the favourite of the heads of one of the most numerous seminaries in England. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvii. 265 To place his daughter in a seminary for female education. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 13 The modern metaphorical refinement of styling a school a seminary which may be now seen in many a blind alley of London. 1831 D. Brewster Life I. Newton i. 4 At the usual age he was sent to two day-schools at Skillington and Stoke, where he acquired the education which such seminaries afforded. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. iii. 102 Young Walter spent one hour daily at a small separate seminary of writing and arithmetic. 1840 J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. II. 452 The interests of society demand, that the number of the greater seminaries of science should be few. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 201 That famous seminary [Aberdeen University]. 5. a. Roman Catholic Church A school or college for training persons for the priesthood. In 16–17th centuries often used with reference to those institutions engaged in the training of priests for the English mission. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] seminar1573 seminary1581 seminary college1581 theologate1879 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise Epist. f. 9 He hes not neglectit ye occasion offrit to plant sindrie learnit and godlie ȝong men in a publik seminarie. 1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. d3 Hearing that there was a Seminary not longe before begonne in Doway. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Aij^v At the last, hearing the Schollers of the English Seminarie merrie, as they returned from their Vineyarde..I stole out of Rome by night [etc.]. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Seminary..a Colledge approved for the education of Priests of the Romish Church, who were to propagate their Doctrine in England, or other Parts of a different perswasion. 1716 in Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics of 1715 (1889) 148 John is now in some Popish seminary abroad. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 16 For monasteries, we should read convents, mission-houses, and seminaries. b. attributive, as in seminary †college, seminary-man, seminary-priest. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] seminar1573 seminary1581 seminary college1581 theologate1879 society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in seminary1581 seminary-man1581 seminary-priest1581 seminarian1584 seminant1587 seminarist1835 1581 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 20 William thorley..was brought uppe in a Semynary College at Reames iij yeares. 1582 W. Allen Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom sig. C7^v Confessing boldly him self to be a Catholike, a Priest, and a Seminarie man of Rhemes. 1582 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 26 He is now w^thin this moneth returned a Seameanary preest from Rheames. 1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely 5 [The Emperors of the House of Austria] filled their Countreys with Missionaries, or Seminary Priests, as we call them. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. i, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 542 He drove many of the seminary priests out of the kingdom. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 23 Giles Gosling..was at one time inclined to suspect his guest of being a Jesuit, or seminary priest. 6. = seminar n.² Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > group under tutor side1837 seminar1889 seminary1889 1889 Academy 17 Aug. 103/2 The ‘seminary’ system seems to be making way [at Harvard]... The seminary is an association of the teachers, fellows, and scholars..for the prosecution of original studies by means of discussion and criticism. 1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Seminary course. †7. a. Short for seminary-priest at sense 5b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > priest trained in seminary1581 seminary-man1581 seminary-priest1581 seminarian1584 seminant1587 seminarist1835 1581 W. Charke Replie to Censure sig. Iiii This should be a note not only to those Iesuites, but to al whatsoeuer they be, Iesuites, or Seminaries or massepriestes, or what persons soeuer. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares Q iii b The Romish Seminaries haue not allured vnto them so many good wits as Atheisme. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. i. 17 in Wks. II A while agone, they made mee, yea me, to mistake an honest zealous Pursiuant, for a Seminary. 1685 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 162 M^r Ll. Jenkyns was imprison'd for a seminary. b. Often treated as a noun use of seminary adj., with the sense ‘one who sows the seed’ (of Roman Catholic doctrine). See seminary adj. 2 and seminary n.² 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [noun] > one who evangelizes fisherc1000 man-fisherc1300 vangelista1330 evangelizer1382 evangelyc1384 evangelist1535 men-fishera1557 seminary1583 evangel1593 Philip1613 evangelica1617 evangelizationer1825 1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. A.iii^v These Seminaries or seedemen and Iesuites..haue..laboured..to perswade the people. 1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 2 Their yong frye of Seminaries and seed-men, which are trained up under them, see not with their owne eyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † seminaryadj.n.² Etymology: < Latin sēminārius, < sēmin- seed: see semen n. Obsolete. A. adj. 1. = seminal adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > original or that is the seed seminative1398 seminary1592 seminala1639 seminiala1676 panspermatic1690 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > ducts > [adjective] > seminal or spermatic ducts spermatic1541 seminary1592 spermatical1615 seminiferous1828 seminiferal1840 spermatiferous1862 parepididymal1890 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > supposed reproductive particles seminary1592 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > sperm > semen seminal1398 seminary1592 parastatic1693 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. K ^v They [sc. spirits] so comprehend those seminarie vertues to men vnknown, that those things which, in course of time,..Nature of it selfe can effect. They..can contriue and compasse in a moment. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 179 That which the point is in the Mathematicks, the same is the seminarie power in the Phisickes. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 219 Aristotle..would haue that humor which is auoyded by the necke of the matrix not to bee a seminarie or seedy humour. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 233 The Testes and seminary vessels. 1671 J. Webster Metallographia ii. 33 Especially in declaring the root and seminary power of Metals. 1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. iv. 306 The Seminary Particles in the Ova. a1742 G. Martin in Med. Ess. Edinb. V. 231 The seminary Blood-vessels. 2. Occupied in sowing seed. figurative with allusion to seminary n.¹ 7. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > evangelization > [adjective] evangelizingc1384 gospelling1566 seminary1609 evangelisticala1651 evangelical1651 gracy1848 evangelistic1860 come-to-Jesus1876 1609 Bible (Douay) I. To Rdr. †6 And so [he]..calleth the other Apostles Messores, Reapers, and S. Paul, being specially sent to the Gentiles, Seminatorem a Sower, or Seminarie Apostle. 1641 J. Gauden Love of Truth 25 Fortifying truth, against the Seminary incursions of those, that seeke to encroach upon its ancient bounds. B. n.² (From absolute uses of the adjective.) 1. a. A germ, embryo, seminal particle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > germ cell or mass seminary1671 germinal cell1840 germ mass1840 germ cell1842 cleavage-mass1871 cleavage-cell1879 cleavage-globule1879 gastrodisc1881 blastule1882 1671 J. Webster Metallographia iii. 40 Plants were not created perfect at first, but only in their seminaries. b. spec. The morbific matter or principle (of a disease); plural germs (of infection). Cf. seminal n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > morbific principles virusa1400 infection1539 seminary1604 fomes1660 fomite1860 1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat To Rdr. sig. A4 The foure windes..bring..diuers affections..of the aire, and especially contagious seminaries. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 244 In whom there lies hid the Seminary of a disease. 1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 9 Houses built upon a clay and foggy ground are more subject to conceive pestilent Seminaries. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 202 The Plague, whose fomes, seminary, or contagion you will never cast out of the Body, except by [Alexitericks or Sudorificks]. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. vii. 229/1 Dedicated to the Kidneys and Bladder, not only to evacuate what is viscous and sandy in them, but also to remove the Seminary thereof, and hinder,..the farther Generations of Sand, Gravel, or Stones. 2. A sower of seed. Only figurative, chiefly with punning allusion to seminary n.¹ 7. ΚΠ 1583 Ld. Burghley Execution of Iustice sig. A.iii^v These Seminaries or seedemen and Iesuites..haue..laboured..to perswade the people. 1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 2 Their yong frye of Seminaries and seed-men, which are trained up under them, see not with their owne eyes.] a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 450 A Pettifogger..is a Law-seminary, that sows Tares amongst Friends to entangle them in Contention with one another. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c1440adj.n.²1592
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