Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a Roman Catholic order of priests established at Paris by the Abbé Olier, about 1645, for the purpose of training young men for the clerical office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. The order was introduced soon afterwards into Canada, and in 1791 into the United States.
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- noun historical One of an
order ofpriests established inFrance in 1642 toeducate men for theministry , and later introduced intoCanada and theUnited States .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are, he considers, the result of his Christian and "Sulpician" education, though the root on which they grew is for ever withered and dead.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 1852
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A Sulpician mission was set up at Cahokia in the Illinois country.
1699-1702 2001
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The superior of the Sulpician Order of monks let the contract for the excavation of a canal about a mile in length, twelve feet wide at the surface and having a depth of eighteen inches at low water in the St. Lawrence.
A Troubled Artery 1966
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Hence the canons had a meeting and there they elected Mr. de Mongolfier, a prominent Sulpician of Montreal.
Was The King Right 1949
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The new pastor before becoming a Sulpician, had been a rich aristocratic
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Most of his years of study had been spent as a precocious youth in that great Seminary of the Sulpician
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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He was educated at Avignon, first in the Jesuit college and afterwards at the Sulpician seminary of St Charles.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Grand River, he met La Salle and the Sulpician priests, Dollier de
The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot James H. Coyne
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Among others it is recorded that the porter of the Sulpician seminary was attacked with inflammation of the lungs, so suddenly that his life was despaired of, and death seemed inevitable.
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Sulpician advice as to how she should act under such peculiar circumstances.
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