seminarist

IPA: sɛmʌnˈɛrɪst

(Roman Catholicism) A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
(now rare) A member of a seminar.

Examples of "seminarist" in Sentences

Maréchal, seminarist at Maissin; the Rev. Father Gillet, Benedictine of
The last was a young seminarist, who set himself to compose a sermon in his sleep.
Descended from a Corsican family, this personage came to Rome when very young, about 1835, and at first became a seminarist.
Stendhal got the idea for it from an incident that at the time made a great stir; a young seminarist killed his mistress, was tried and guillotined.
In the pension there's a new lodger, an ex-seminarist from Seville with plenty of spirit, who brings in some impressive young ladies every now and then.
Now, the ex seminarist is M. Daudet's daily companion and literary agent; it is he who makes all the necessary arrangements with editors and publishers, and several of Daudet's later writings have been dictated to him.
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.