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   Seminar , n. [G. See Seminary, n.] A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- formerly called also seminary, now seldom used in this sense.
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   Seminary , n.; pl. Seminaries . [L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal.]
   A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.]
   Mortimer.
   
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   But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds.
   Evelyn.
   
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   Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.]
   Woodward.
   
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   A place of education, as a school of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
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   Seminal state. [Obs.]
   Sir T. Browne.
   
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   Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.]
   Harvey.
   
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   A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.]
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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   Seminary, a. [L. seminarius.] Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
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