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The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623- 1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.

. School of the prophets (Anc. Jewish Hist.), a school or college in which young men were educated and trained for public teachers or members of the prophetic order. These students were called sons of the prophets.

To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue. Southern.

To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach. He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. Shak.

A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

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. [Written also Sulpitian.]

s of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.

To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. Milton. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden.…

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

Brought up; educated. [Obs.] Spenser.

To train up; to educate. [Obs.] "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.

Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." Shak. Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. Addison. In read…

hich we call U. Etymologically it is most related to v and u. See V, and U. Some of the uneducated classes in England, especially in London, confuse w and v, substituting the one for the other, as weal for veal, and veal for weal; wine for vine, and vine for wine, etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 266-268.…