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sem·i·nary I. \ˈseməˌnerē, -ri\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Latin seminarium, from neuter of seminarius of seed, from semin-, semen seed + -arius -ary — more at semen 1. a. archaic : a plot where plants for transplantation are raised from seed b. obsolete : a stock or breeding place of animals c. : an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated : a seed bed producing an often specified class of persons or things < many holy monks from Ireland and Scotland, then seminaries of saints — Alban Butler > < the prisons were … seminaries of every crime and every disease — T.B.Macaulay > 2. a. : an institution of secondary or higher education < by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by other expedients — H.L.Wells > specifically : an academy for girls < the female seminary common in the 19th century > < young English ladies who are being “finished off” in suitable seminaries — Cecil Beaton > b. : an institution for the training of candidates for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate: as (1) : a Roman Catholic institution preparing young men for diocesan priesthood or for membership in a religious order and having a course of study comprising typically 12 years of secondary, collegiate, and theological training (2) : a similar Roman Catholic institution having only the final 6-year course of senior college and theological studies — called also major seminary (3) : preparatory seminary (4) : a professional school giving training in religion especially for men preparing for ordination as church pastors, usually associated with a Protestant denomination, requiring a college degree for entry, and having a three-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree in theology or divinity 3. obsolete : seminary priest 4. : seminar 1 II. adjective Etymology: Latin seminarius 1. obsolete : seminal 1 2. : seminal 2 III. noun (-es) obsolete : germ |