Sulpician
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Sulpician
1780–90; < French sulpicien, after la Campagnie de Saint Sulpice the Society of St. Sulpice, named after the church where its founder was pastor; see -ian
Example Sentences
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Sulla's soldiers were impatient for the plunder of Asia, and he therefore contented himself with repealing the Sulpician laws.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith
He was a saint, but had very little of the priest and nothing of the Sulpician about him.
From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan
Father Albanel and Father Raffeix, Jesuit priests, the Abbe Dollier de Casson, a Sulpician, and the Abbe Dubois, chaplain of the Carignan regiment, accompanied the army.
From The Great Intendant : A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672 by H. H. (Hugh Hornby) Langton
F Sulpician, appointed vicar-general for Canada, 42; sent back to France by Bishop Laval, 43.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
The description by La Salle's Sulpician companion, Galinee, in 1669, is the most accurate of all early accounts.
From The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert
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