theologue

American  

[thee-uh-lawg, -log] / ˈθi əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /

Or theolog

noun

1. a theological student.

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Etymology

Origin of theologue

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin theologus < Greek theológos. See theo-, -logue ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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theologue

Now, look here, Stanhope," cried George, barring all egress by planting his back against the door, "do you take me, a half- fledged theologue, for a heathen?

From Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

Chapter 3.XXX.—How the theologue, Hippothadee, giveth counsel to Panurge in the matter and business of his nuptial enterprise.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

This is why the average theologue, in his first parish, is like the well-meaning but meddling engineer endeavoring with clumsy tools and insensitive fingers to adjust the delicate and complicated mechanism of a Genevan watch.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

Remember how, when I was a Freshman, you raced a theologue down the church aisle one Sunday night after service, and slammed the door from the outside?

From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark

Courtland's preaching was not of the usual cut-and-dried order of the young theologue.

From The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

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