Like where you would go to buy or store (Shudder!) slimy sticky substances?!?!?!
* Lady Kikyo *
2007-08-30 10:29:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Although a bit graphic, you are hearing the same Latin root in the words seminary and semen, both meaning seed.
Seminary: Middle English, seed plot, from Latin seminrium, from seminrius, of seed, from semen , seed
Semen: Middle English, from Latin semen, seed
Other words with the same Latin root are disseminate and seminal.
With love in Christ.
2007-09-02 08:57:37 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really need to mature.
Seminary - A school established for the academic and spiritual training of candidates for the priesthood. The Council of Trent, July 15, 1563, ordered the establishment of a seminary in every doicese. Seminaries that are not houses of study for the regular clergy are of different kinds, depending on the authority that establishes them and has jurisdiction over them. Thus seminaries may be diocesan, regional, interdiocesan, provincial, and pontifical. The decree of the Second Vatican Council, Optatam Totius, issued in 1965, treats at length about the curriculum and administration of seminarians. In 1979 Pope John Paul II issued the Apostolic Constitution Sapientia Christiana on ecclesiastical universities and faculties. The document immediately affects all institutions of higher education, including seminaries, which have been canonically erected or approved by the Holy See with the right to confer acamedic degrees by the authority of the same See. Indirectly it affects all Catholic seminaries. Among other detailed provisions, the constitution requires that, "All teachers, before they are given a permanent post . . . must receive a declaration of nihil obstat [formal approval] from the Holy See".
2007-08-31 07:57:31 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It only sounds nasty if you have your mind in the gutter.
sem·i·nar·y (sm-nr) KEY
NOUN:
pl. sem·i·nar·ies
A school, especially a theological school for the training of priests, ministers, or rabbis.
A school of higher education, especially a private school for girls.
Care to tell me what's nasty about education?
2007-08-31 10:49:44 · answer #3 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a difference between a Seminary and a "Semenary." Much like there's a difference between Seamen and Semen.
And it's not just a Catholic term. Every theology school is called a Seminary, i.e., a place where they hold seminars.
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2007-08-30 17:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
It's derived from the French word "semaine", meening week. As in a boarding school that you stay in all week. That's all.
2007-08-30 17:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by Michael B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if you have a dirty mind. Some people find something dirty in anything.
Are you sure you are spelling the other word correctly?
2007-08-30 17:35:46 · answer #6 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh boy. Wait till your work place sends you to a Seminar.
2007-08-30 17:32:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Are you 12 or something?
2007-08-30 17:33:47 · answer #8 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
YEAH...
Like that word "RECTUM"...
THAT sounds like something that you answer your ol' lady when she asks: "WHERE'S YOUR CAR?"
(AND... I suppose that "RECTORY" is but a factory for the manufacture of @$$-HOLES!)
2007-08-30 18:45:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Priests love to have sex with boys.
2007-08-31 17:20:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋