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单词 seminary
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Definition of seminary in English:

seminary

nounPlural seminaries ˈsɛmɪn(ə)riˈsɛməˌnɛri
  • A training college for priests or rabbis.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But as a student in seminary, I was challenged to believe that God also redeems and restores all of the cosmos, just as God has redeemed you and me.
    • Involvement in campus ministries was often the next step, typically at a denominational or private liberal arts college that sent substantial numbers of students on to seminary.
    • These books may be more attractive for use with college students than in seminary classes.
    • For some time after its foundation, Manly was the only seminary in Australia preparing students for the secular priesthood.
    • I am very grateful for the many times not only seminary colleagues but also seminary students have ministered to me in times of terror or grief.
    • Education in this study is defined as whether or not a minister has received an advanced level of college and seminary training.
    • These tended to be younger people, such as Bible college or seminary students.
    • Who can appreciate better than seminary students the incomprehensibility of God?
    • In those days, there were few women clergy, very few women seminary professors, and not many women seminary students.
    • The result is a fine introduction, useful for advanced lay groups, college students, and introductory seminary courses.
    • Ask any Bible college or seminary how many of their students are from the UK.
    • This will be especially true of clergy and seminary students, particularly those in my care.
    • Students often came to seminary because their church and community had decided that was to be their vocation.
    • We might risk preaching on the streets like seminary students in downtown Atlanta.
    • The balance of clarity and detail makes this commentary useful for students of Paul in seminary and college courses.
    • When I was a student in seminary I had as an assignment to write a paper on Calvinism and Birth Control.
    • College and seminary students studying American religion will undoubtedly find this anthology on their required reading lists.
    • If seminaries are preparing students for professional ministry, this should be the focus of classes - not how-to-study sessions.
    • If many current students come to seminary without fixed notions of biblical authority, how can a prime teaching goal continue to be disabusing students of rigidity?
    • His book should be widely read by pastors, seminary students, and members of adult education classes in local congregations.
    Synonyms
    theological college, rabbinical college, Talmudical college, academy, training college, training institute, school, high school, conservatory

Derivatives

  • seminarian

  • noun sɛmɪˈnɛːrɪənˌsɛməˈnɛriən
    • Training must make available to seminarians the true ideals of serving the people of God in the person of Christ the Head in order to inspire them beyond the sterile identity which is clericalism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many priests and seminarians have always done this, and I hope this gives them the courage to know why and how they are both ‘sons and heirs’ of a true wisdom tradition.
      • Though the study attends to lay students enrolled in theologates, its main focus is seminarians preparing for the priesthood.
      • I lived in the house as a seminarian, I had to perform the spiritual exercises that were expected of a seminarian, going to church every day, saying the rosary, visiting the blessed sacrament, spiritual reading.
      • Many, perhaps most, seminarians who believe they are being called to priesthood do not have a charism for celibacy - a graced aptitude for consecrated single life.
  • seminarist

  • noun ˈsɛmɪn(ə)rɪstˈsɛməˌnɛrəst
    • While the ascetic regime of an Italian seminarist in the late nineteenth century was of course alien - and sometimes alienating - I was impressed by his devotion and sincerity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He introduced a bill to reduce military service from five years to three but to close the loopholes by which seminarists, students, and the rich could obtain exemption.
      • In 1789 François became a seminarist, that is a student in an institution for training candidates for the priesthood.
      • But when he gets into the car, the seminarist, still firm in his beliefs, reminds Dabii of the Koran prohibitions, the injunction that man must not kill.
      • The decline in vocations, which began under Pius XII, has not been reversed and there is now one seminarist for every twelve priests.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a seed plot): from Latin seminarium 'seed plot', neuter of seminarius 'of seed', from semen 'seed'.

 
 

Definition of seminary in US English:

seminary

nounˈsɛməˌnɛriˈseməˌnerē
  • A college that prepares students to be priests, ministers, or rabbis.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These tended to be younger people, such as Bible college or seminary students.
    • Education in this study is defined as whether or not a minister has received an advanced level of college and seminary training.
    • But as a student in seminary, I was challenged to believe that God also redeems and restores all of the cosmos, just as God has redeemed you and me.
    • The balance of clarity and detail makes this commentary useful for students of Paul in seminary and college courses.
    • Ask any Bible college or seminary how many of their students are from the UK.
    • Involvement in campus ministries was often the next step, typically at a denominational or private liberal arts college that sent substantial numbers of students on to seminary.
    • The result is a fine introduction, useful for advanced lay groups, college students, and introductory seminary courses.
    • For some time after its foundation, Manly was the only seminary in Australia preparing students for the secular priesthood.
    • If many current students come to seminary without fixed notions of biblical authority, how can a prime teaching goal continue to be disabusing students of rigidity?
    • This will be especially true of clergy and seminary students, particularly those in my care.
    • Who can appreciate better than seminary students the incomprehensibility of God?
    • College and seminary students studying American religion will undoubtedly find this anthology on their required reading lists.
    • I am very grateful for the many times not only seminary colleagues but also seminary students have ministered to me in times of terror or grief.
    • His book should be widely read by pastors, seminary students, and members of adult education classes in local congregations.
    • We might risk preaching on the streets like seminary students in downtown Atlanta.
    • When I was a student in seminary I had as an assignment to write a paper on Calvinism and Birth Control.
    • Students often came to seminary because their church and community had decided that was to be their vocation.
    • If seminaries are preparing students for professional ministry, this should be the focus of classes - not how-to-study sessions.
    • These books may be more attractive for use with college students than in seminary classes.
    • In those days, there were few women clergy, very few women seminary professors, and not many women seminary students.
    Synonyms
    theological college, rabbinical college, talmudical college, academy, training college, training institute, school, high school, conservatory

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a seed plot): from Latin seminarium ‘seed plot’, neuter of seminarius ‘of seed’, from semen ‘seed’.

 
 
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