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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 616 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEMINARY (See also:Lat. seminarium, from semen, See also:seed) , a See also:term originally applied to a nursery-See also:garden or See also:place where seeds are sown to produce See also:plants for transplanting. It was See also:early used in its See also:present sense of a place of See also:education. Its most frequent use is for a training See also:college for the See also:Roman See also:Catholic priesthood, and in a transferred sense for a See also:priest who has been trained in a See also:foreign seminary, also often termed a "seminarist." A See also:German usage, adopted in See also:America, applies the term seminar to a class or advanced study or See also:research.

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