The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary. 2 (context now rare English) A member of a seminar.
WordNet
n. a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary) [syn: seminarian]
Usage examples of "seminarist".
We were then shewn three halls, in which we found at least one hundred and fifty seminarists, ten or twelve schoolrooms, the refectory, the dormitory, the gardens for play hours, and every pain was taken to make me imagine life in such a place the happiest that could fall to the lot of a young man, and to make me suppose that I would even regret the arrival of the bishop.
There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the manner of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.
We were such fast friends, after four days of acquaintance, that we were actually jealous of each other, and to such an extent that if either of us walked about with any seminarist, the other would be angry and sulk like a disappointed lover.
God that I have never spoken to the seminarist who was found in my bed.
Irish seminarist that he now addressed Stephen, taking off his hat as he did so.
Dmitriy Karamazov champion of the Ideal, is a symbol of all positivist scientists, men who, like the seminarist Rakitin, only believe in chemistry, the scalpel, and materialist determinism.
The son of priest Iona, seminarist Arkhangelsky, two rural teachers and three others, who were strangers to me, called themselves S.
An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills.
The circle of seminarists dropped spade and sieve and assembled around the savant.
The beds were placed at equal distances, and to each bed there were a fold-stool, a chair, and room for the trunk of the Seminarist.
We were then shewn three halls, in which we found at least one hundred and fifty seminarists, ten or twelve schoolrooms, the refectory, the dormitory, the gardens for play hours, and every pain was taken to make me imagine life in such a place the happiest that could fall to the lot of a young man, and to make me suppose that I would even regret the arrival of the bishop.