Sulpician
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English
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Etymology
From Sulpice + -ian. So called after the parish of St. Sulpice in Paris, of which the founder, Jean Jacques Olier, was pastor in 1643.
Noun
Sulpician (plural Sulpicians)
- (historical) One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry, and later introduced into Canada and the United States.
References
- “Sulpician”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.