Missionary vs Seminary - What's the difference?
missionary | seminary |
One who is sent on a mission.
A person who travels attempting to spread a religion or a creed.
(pejorative) A religious messenger.
(uncountable) A common position for undertaking sexual intercourse.
A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
A private residential school for girls.
* 1885 , ,
(Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
* Evelyn
(by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
(obsolete) Seminal state or polity.
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
Of or relating to seed; seminal.
As nouns the difference between missionary and seminary
is that missionary is one who is sent on a mission while seminary is a theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.As an adjective seminary is
of or relating to seed; seminal.missionary
English
Noun
(missionaries)- A Muslim missionary was just trying to convert me to Islam .
See also
* (wikipedia "missionary") *seminary
English
(wikipedia seminary)Noun
(seminaries)- Three little maids who, all unwary,
- Come from a ladies' seminary
- (Mortimer)
- But if you draw them [seedlings] only for the thinning of your seminary , prick them into some empty beds.
- (Woodward)
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
- (Jeremy Taylor)