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

There is no room for doubt or dissent in Gibson’s triumphalist universe, and everything we see in this movie, with its naive and ham-fisted St. Sulpician imagery, seems to arise from a troubling posture of moral complacency.

From Los Angeles Times

Kenmore has long-hoped that Bastyr, the city’s largest employer, would expand inside the seminary building, which once housed the Sulpician Order of Catholic Priests.

From Seattle Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

In Kateri's time these two missions nestled under the protecting guns of Quebec; just as the Indians of the Praying Castle where Kateri lived, and the Iroquois of the Sulpician mission on the slope of Mount Royal, felt bound to maintain a close friendship for defence, as well as through inclination, with their French neighbors at Montreal.

From Project Gutenberg