Seminary /(?)/

pl. Seminaries

1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.]

   But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds.

2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.]
3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
4. Seminal state. [Obs.]
5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.]
6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.]

1. Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]