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Webster 1913 Edition
Seminary
Sem′i-na-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Seminaries
(#)
. 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.
Sem′i-na-ry
,Adj.
[L.
seminarius
.] Belonging to seed; seminal.
[R.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Seminary
SEM'INARY
,Noun.
1. A seed-plant; ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; as, to transplant trees from a seminary.
[In this sense, the word is not used in America; being superseded by nusery.]
2. The place or original stock whence anything is brought.
This stratum, being the seminary or promptuary, furnishing matter for the formation of animal or vegetable bodies- Woodward. [Not in use.]
3. Seminal state. [Not in use.]
4. Source of propagation.
5. A place of education; any school, academy, college or univerlity, in which young persons are instructed in the several branches of learning which may qualify them for future employments. [This is the only signification of the word in the United States, at least as far as my knowledge