| 词汇 | seminary |
| 释义 | seminary noun[ C ] uk /ˈsem.ɪ.nər.i/ us /ˈsem.ɪ.ner.i/ a college for training people to become priests or ministers神学院 Types of school academy alma mater alternative school business school centre of excellence charter school coeducational conservatory convent school elementary school grade school grant-maintained school prep school preparatory school private reform school reformatory secondary school selective special school seminary | American Dictionaryseminary noun[ C ] us/ˈsem·əˌner·i/ a college where people are trained to become priests, ministers, or rabbis Examples of seminaryseminary At the same time the seminaries, dependent on state subsidies following the secularization of church lands, went into decline. This view prevailed in seminary education right up to the reforms of 1808. The resident archbishop had founded an astronomical observatory there as early as 1692, and the local seminary helped to distribute books among the peasantry. Selectivity could be another contributing element: those who are healthier may be more likely to enter into or complete the college and seminary training required. Under its authority he placed the reorganized church schools and seminaries. Rather, he was a devout man who, though a former rector and professor of philosophy at a seminary, retained anti-intellectual leanings. In 1997, about 220,000 students were enrolled in these seminaries. Masses are packed to overflowing with people of all ages; and local seminaries are full. But parish priests also refused to surrender their sons to the seminaries. Definitely not the scholasticism of the seminaries, which he deemed incapable of applying rational analysis to modern social problems. The boldest and most prominent liberal divines of the 1870s and 1880s tended to be pastors who were less subject to ecclesiastical discipline than were seminary professors. Random sampling of the replies which students coming to the continental seminaries gave about their family background reveals startling degrees of division in religion. Virginia also pursued a controversial practice of not granting corporate status to churches or to their agencies, including seminaries. That the schoolboy was an apt and docile pupil may be inferred from the prizes which he won during his passage through the classes of the suburban seminary. They were designated madrasas or seminaries. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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