Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
seminary .
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Examples
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He fought against the admission of dissenters without a test to the universities, which he described as seminaries for the established church.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
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Finally the Pope turned to young people in seminaries or houses of formation.
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Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation's largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new academic program in homemaking as part of an effort to establish what its president calls biblical family and gender roles.
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The Vatican ruling on homosexuals in the seminaries is interesting to other than gay-rights hawks.
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It says that spiritual directors and confessors in seminaries "have the duty to dissuade" any candidates "who show deep-seated homosexual tendencies" from joining the priesthood.
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In purely theological matters they will be educated as in Latin seminaries, if not actually sent there for lectures, but in the Oriental church rites, discipline, liturgical language, music, and customs the proposed seminary will fill a place for the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Apart from these and the English girls in French seminaries it was estimated ten years after Smollett’s sojourn there that there were twenty-four English families in residence.
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I think we've got to recognize that the seminaries are the seedbed of the ideas of the church, and in some ways are the seedbed for ideas of value in the community.
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And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality.
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At first they lasted only ten days, but in extending them by degrees to fifteen or twenty days, then to one, two, or three months before each order, the bishops eventually prolonged the stay of their clerics to two or three years between philosophy and the priesthood and there were what were called seminaries d'ordinands and later grands seminaries, when lesser ones were founded.
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