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What does "seminary" mean?

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

Additional senses

  1. 2.A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
  2. 3.Seminal state. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
  3. 4.Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] Harvey.
  4. 5.A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
  5. 6.Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]

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