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Webster dictionary was developed by Noah Webster in the beginning of 19th century. On this website, you can find definition for Seminaries from the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Define Seminaries using one of the most comprehensive free online dictionaries on the web.
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- In proof of this, we may instance the sensible degradation which is felt, when the reward proffered for mental efforts, even in children, takes the form of food, or clothing, or money;- and the kind of estimation in which students hold their medals, books, and other prizes, acquired at their several seminaries. - "A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education", James Gall.
- My assailants denounced theological seminaries as " preacher- factories"- informed me that " neither Dr. Black nor any of his congregation ever had religion," and that only by getting it could any one be saved. - "Half a Century", Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm.
- When Kentucky came to have a legislature of its own, it decreed that each of the counties in the state should receive six thousand acres of land wherewith to start a seminary; and that all these county seminaries were to train students for this long- dreamed- of central institution. - "The Reign of Law A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields", James Lane Allen.