sb. (a.) Eccl. [ad. F. sulpicien, f. (St.) Sulpice (see def.).] One of a congregation of secular priests founded in Paris in 1642 by the Abbé Olier, priest of the parish of St. Sulpice, mainly for the training of candidates for holy orders; as adj., belonging to this congregation.
1786. trans. Dulaure’s Pogonologia, p. iii., note. The Sulpicians alone have withstood this fashion with a laudable resolution.
1850. Newman, Diffic. Anglic., I. x. (1891), I. 322. A school of opinion … withstood by the Society of Jesus and the Sulpicians.
1892. J. George Colclough, in Month, Nov., 312. He [Ernest Renan] migrated from St. Nichlas to the Sulpician seminary at Issy.
1904. Q. Rev., Jan., 289–90. A text-book written by a Sulpician and published under the imprimatur of the Archbishop of New York.
