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  • noun Plural form of Sulpician.

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Examples

  • I have never met but one man in the present age who can bear comparison with the Sulpicians, that is M. Damiron, and those who knew him, know what the Sulpicians were.

    Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

  • After a third voyage, he brought with him the first Sulpicians who came to Canada 1659.

    Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, a short biography de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • After a third voyage, he brought with him the first Sulpicians who came to Canada 1659.

    Archive 2008-02-10 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Xavier; there are ancient customs and feudal privileges; Jesuit seminaries, and convents of the _Soeurs Gris_ and the Sulpicians; priests in long black dresses; native carters in coats with hoods, woollen nightcaps, and coloured sashes; and barristers pleading in the French language.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • At the invitation of Quebec Sulpicians, eight of the exiles set sail for Canada.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • At the invitation of Quebec Sulpicians, eight of the exiles set sail for Canada.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • At the invitation of Quebec Sulpicians, eight of the exiles set sail for Canada.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Sulpicians remained only three days and then hired an experienced guide to take them to Montreal, where they arrived on the 18th June after a fatiguing journey of twenty-two days.

    The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot James H. Coyne

  • Jesuits, Sulpicians, and Recollets have done much to mould the thought and control the political destiny of the people under their spiritual care.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • The Abbé, divested of his former dignity and pretensions, returned in later years to the island of Montreal, of which the Sulpicians had become the seigniorial proprietors, when the original company were too weak to carry out the objects of their formation.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

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