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Seminarian

Seminarian \Sem`i*na"ri*an\, Seminarist \Sem"i*na*rist\, n. [Cf. F. s['e]minariste.] A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
seminarian

"seminary student," 1580s, from seminary + -ian.

Wiktionary
seminarian

n. Someone who studies at a seminary.

WordNet
seminarian

n. a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) [syn: seminarist]

Usage examples of "seminarian".

The black soutane he wore as a seminarian fastened at the right shoulder and down the right side, and he undid enough of the buttons to loosen the standing collar, briefly pulling the opening away from his neck a few times to puff air inside.

He was more than ready to discuss literature, and at once forgot about Father Pirard and everything connected with him, so he could consider, together with this seminarian, whether Horace had been rich or poor.

Finally, the bishop could not help but pay the seminarian a compliment.

Not a single seminarian was simple enough to believe in a voluntary resignation, not from a post that offered so many contacts with large suppliers.

Julien, like a seminarian, and as if all they were discussing were theology and classically correct Latin.

Instinctively, Martin knew that if he told Daniela he was a seminarian, her attitude toward him would change, and she would become distant and perfunctory in their association.

He worried that they only had the house in which Martin Donohue was holed up under scrutiny, rather than the young seminarian well in hand.

What was it that had motivated a lowly seminarian to steal the secrets of popes, and possibly challenge the integrity of the entire Church?

However, a seminarian would not have stumbled, and Liputin did, after all, belong to the old society.

The presence of the seminarian inhibited Tessie, who no longer wandered upstairs for private swing sessions.

The young seminarian had shared his homosexual fears with him, unknowingly setting himself up for the murder of that poor, defenseless paperboy.

Jesuit, Father Caussade, which he had sometimes found consoling when he was a seminarian, and returned to bed.

Randy to graduate from being a seminarian and to leave the Shively Heritage House.

The one-time Jesuit seminarian whose life and legal practice are still mired in Church affairs.

As it happened, I remembered it well, as many a seminarian was bound to.