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Definition of Seminaries

Seminaries
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.

Meaning of Seminaries from wikipedia

- of seminaries in modern times resulted from Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent. These Tridentine seminaries placed...
- were in 6,974 seminaries around the world: 3,194 diocesan seminaries and 3,780 religious seminaries. Saint-Gall de Ouidah Major Seminary Grand Séminaire...
- There are three kinds of Seminaries in India: Roman Catholic Seminaries for churches that are in full communion with the Catholic Church and are affiliated...
- integrating religious seminaries into mainstream society. This initiative marked a significant effort to incorporate these seminaries into the broader educational...
- cases, a "Jewish seminary" may also refer to a cantorial school.) While rabbis have been part of Judaism for centuries, rabbinical seminaries only became distinct...
- liberation movements. Some of the seminaries gradually developed as four-year colleges. The Bethlehem Female Seminary was founded in 1742 in Germantown...
- Current seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA): Luther Seminary (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago...
- 1562435; 7.2042985 The International Seminary of Saint Pius X in Écône, Valais, Switzerland, is the premier seminary of the Roman Catholic traditionalist...
- "high school seminaries" rather than minor seminaries. Today, college seminaries, where philosophy is studied, are often called minor seminaries even though...
- priests for the "New Evangelization". These seminaries are distributed worldwide. Redemptoris Mater seminaries are a fruit of the Second Vatican Council...