Sulpician

[ suhl-pish-uhn ]

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sulpician¹

1780–90; < French sulpicien, after la Campagnie de Saint Sulpice the Society of St. Sulpice, named after the church where its founder was pastor; -ian

Example Sentences

He gave a description of the places he had visited and Galine, the Sulpician geographer, entered them on his map.

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In 1666 he became a settler in Canada, whither his brother, a Sulpician abb, had preceded him.

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M. Belmont, a Sulpician, taught the boys, and two of the Congregation sisters had charge of the girls.

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These were mostly at the school of the newly founded Sulpician mission on the mountain-side.

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Sulla's soldiers were impatient for the plunder of Asia, and he therefore contented himself with repealing the Sulpician laws.

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