Sulpician

American  

[suhl-pish-uhn] / sʌlˈpɪʃ ən /

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.

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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; -ian

Example Sentences

Among the other new cardinals: Paul-Emile L�ger, 48, Archbishop of Montreal and a member of the Sulpician order.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was educated at Avignon, first in the Jesuit college and afterwards at the Sulpician seminary of St Charles.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

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 Smith, William, Sir

At Kaskaskia there was a Jesuit academy for white boys, and at Cahokia a Sulpician Indian school.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

They are, he considers, the result of his Christian and "Sulpician" education, though the root on which they grew is for ever withered and dead.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)