What's the difference between seminarian and seminary?

Seminarian


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Seminarist

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ‘I’m not so much with her as I am against the fascist Donald Trump’ Chris, 50, New York, voting for Hillary Clinton My name is Christopher; I am a gay African American illustrator and comic book artist living in New York City with my husband who is an Episcopal seminarian.
  • (2) That completely misunderstands the nature of the power a spiritual director has over his seminarians and a cardinal has over his priests.
  • (3) News of the apostolic visitation came via the papal nuncio, Antonio Mennini, in a meeting with one of the complainants, a former priest known as "Lenny" who accused the cardinal of making sexual advances to him when he was a seminarian.
  • (4) We were treated like VIPs, given a tour of the Vatican and the Basilica and dined with the seminarians after the game.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Argentinian seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio smiles for a portrait at the El Salvador school in 1966 where he taught literature and psychology in Buenos Aires.
  • (6) In 1963, the Shah ordered seminarians, technically exempt, to serve in the army.
  • (7) Its founder, the former Australian ambassador to the Vatican John McCarthy, filled the team with seminarians – trainee priests – from India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
  • (8) Brown, a lifelong Catholic and former Jesuit seminarian, announced he signed the legislation after thoroughly considering all opinions and discussing the issue with many people, including a Catholic bishop and two of Brown’s doctors.
  • (9) In terms of sensitivity to the stress that women in seminary and ministry experience, male and female seminarians and ministers were most aware of these issues, with priests (males only), nuns, and then brothers (in descending order) sensitive to these concerns.
  • (10) The seminarian says he was too frightened to report the incident, but says his personality changed afterwards, and his teachers regularly noted that he seemed depressed.
  • (11) Two years later came The Destroying Angel – a much darker piece, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; a nightmarish series of encounters for a young seminarian with a devilish character and magic mushrooms.
  • (12) The complainant, who is now married, was then a 20-year-old seminarian at St Andrew's College, Drygrange, where O'Brien was his "spiritual director".
  • (13) Viewing this need, a course was developed to train seminarians in principles and practices of community mental health.
  • (14) Stress in religious leaders was investigated by administering to 250 priests, ministers, seminarians, nuns, and brothers the specially devised Religion and Stress Questionnaire and the Osipow and Spokane Occupational Environment Scales, Personal Strain Questionnaire, and Personal Resources Questionnaire.
  • (15) The complainant was then a 20-year-old seminarian at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange, where O’Brien was his “spiritual director”.
  • (16) Hither anxiety was more characteristic of college students than seminarians.
  • (17) Now married, Lenny had been approached by the cardinal while a seminarian.
  • (18) General anxiety and evoked imagery of death as a person were measured in 75 male Catholic college students and seminarians.
  • (19) The prime minister, who was a seminarian, evidently has his views reinforced by his Catholicism; but he is unswayed by his sister Christine Forster, who wants to marry her female partner .
  • (20) Maynard’s story put a sympathetic public face on the right-to-die movement, which proved decisive when California Governor Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminarian, signed a similar bill the next year despite heavy pressure from religious groups.

Seminary


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
  • (n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
  • (n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
  • (n.) Seminal state.
  • (n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
  • (n.) A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
  • (a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
  • (2) A Catholic seminary, the Centro de Atendimento ao Migrante, has been receiving food and clothes donations after taking in 219 Ghanaians, two of them women, the centre’s director said.
  • (3) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
  • (4) He also attempted, less successfully, to expand his influence in the seminaries through greater regulation.” The jury is very out on how far last month’s election to the Experts Assembly will shape the succession.
  • (5) Scant progress has been made on regulating the country’s religious seminaries, one of the items on a much trumpeted “national action plan” drawn up in the wake of the APS killings.
  • (6) He was standing beneath the neoclassical October Palace – once a girls' seminary and later the HQ for Lenin's secret police – when a sniper shot him in the head.
  • (7) Robert Lauder, principal of the nearby Friends Seminary, said he could see why Sedwill saw similarities between Kabul and New York .
  • (8) Stickel, 40, said she was a teacher at a Mormon seminary in California when Prop 8 passed.
  • (9) Thousands of Israeli troops and police have joined in the hunt for the three seminary students – Gil-ad Sha'er and US-Israeli national Naftali Frankel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 – who disappeared while hitchhiking home from a yeshiva, or religious school, on the West Bank.
  • (10) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
  • (11) I give below a few instances where a large number of innocent people were killed by US drone strikes in Pakistani tribal areas: 13 January 2006 – Five women, five children and six men killed in Damadola, Bajaur tribal region; 30 October 2006 – 80 children killed in drone strike on a seminary in Chingai village; 23 June 2009 – 60 people killed in a drone strike on a funeral; 17 March 2011 – 41 innocent civilians killed in drone strikes on a tribal jirga called to settle a chromite mine dispute.
  • (12) Now Sadaullah does not go to school and gets only a religious education in a madrasa – Islamic seminary – in his village.
  • (13) Sexual attitudes and attitude changes in the AAPM&R-sponsered workshop were similar to those measured in participants in other workshops involving medical and seminary students and community members.
  • (14) Initially I was at a seminary and I was kicked out for asking too many questions.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pakistani seminary students gather outside Bin Laden’s final hiding place in Abbottabad, 2011.
  • (16) It is being built by volunteers led by Baba Harnam Singh, the head of the seminary Bhindranwale once led.
  • (17) There are really only seven passages in the Bible that refer directly to homosexual behaviour, and none of them are associated with Jesus.” That’s Davis Lose from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia .
  • (18) "It's hard to complete because they have more manpower from all their religious seminaries," said Mohammad Rashid from the Edhi Foundation in Islamabad.
  • (19) The tribunal, which prosecutes people accused of being involved in the Rwandan genocide, found that on at least four occasions in April and May 1994, Rukundo played an integral role in kidnapping and killing Tutsi refugees who sought shelter in a seminary.
  • (20) A Pakistani intelligence official claimed five people were killed by the early morning strike on a religious seminary in Hangu, a district bordering the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where nearly all US drone strikes have taken place in the past.

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