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of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

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

seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. T. Warton.

Deprived of virility, or seminal energy; made a eunuch. [Obs.]

tion for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

A college or seminary where one is educated.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select. Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

asing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.…

rd year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course.

One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.

science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.

A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.)

the readmission fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.

ior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.

A student in a theological seminary. [Written also theolog.] [Colloq. U.S.]