SEMINARY

Seminary

A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry. The English word is taken from the Latin seminarium, translated as seed-bed, an image taken from the Council of Trent document Cum adolescentium aetas which called for the first modern seminaries. In the West the term now refers to Roman Catholic educational institutes and has widened to include other Christian denominations and American Jewish institutions.

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seminary

Noun

  1. A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
  2. A private residential school for girls.
  3. A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
  4. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
  5. The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
  6. Seminal state or polity.
  7. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.

Adjective

  1. Of or relating to seed; seminal.


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