Definition of "seminarist" [seminarist]

• A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary. (noun)
• A member of a seminar. (noun)

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• "The last was a young seminarist, who set himself to compose a sermon in his sleep."
• "Having found in the solemn headmaster of the College Saint – Louis a tutor to whom my uncle delegated his authority, at the age of eighteen I had gone through all the classes; I left school as innocent as a seminarist, full of faith, on quitting"
• "Walsingham spies therefore frequently offered to carry letters for him, and eventually the treacherous Gilbert Gifford a seminarist who afterwards got himself made priest in order to carry on his deceits with less suspicion contrived a channel of correspondence, in which every letter was sent to or from Mary passed through the hands of Elizabeth's decipherer Thomas Phellips, and was copied by him."