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.
Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.
A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
Seminal state. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] Harvey.
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
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