Sulpician

[ suhl-pish-uhn ]

nounRoman Catholic Church.

a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.

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

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How to use Sulpician in a sentence

He gave a description of the places he had visited and Galine, the Sulpician geographer, entered them on his map.
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime | William Henry Atherton
In 1666 he became a settler in Canada, whither his brother, a Sulpician abb, had preceded him.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 2 | Various
M. Belmont, a Sulpician, taught the boys, and two of the Congregation sisters had charge of the girls.
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha | Ellen H. Walworth
These were mostly at the school of the newly founded Sulpician mission on the mountain-side.
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha | Ellen H. Walworth
Sulla's soldiers were impatient for the plunder of Asia, and he therefore contented himself with repealing the Sulpician laws.
A Smaller History of Rome | William Smith and Eugene Lawrence

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