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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.

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.…

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.

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.

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.]