Definitions for: Seminary

[n] a private place of education for the young
[n] a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Sem"i*na*ry, a. [L. seminarius.]
Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]

See Also: private school, school

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