seminary

seminary is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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.

[2] Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.

[3] A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.

[4] Seminal state. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

[5] Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] Harvey.

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

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