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Sulpician(dictionary)

Tamang (iou) and sulpician (medicine)


Tamang (iou)



Tamang noun & adjective. M20.
[Nepali from rta-ma (owner of) many horses.]
A. noun. Pl. -s, same.
A member of a Buddhist people inhabiting mountainous parts of Nepal and Sikkim. M20.
The Tibeto-Burman language of this people. L20.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to this people or their language. M20.

sulpician (medicine)


sulpician


One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry. The order was introduced soon afterwards into Canada, and in 1791 into the United States.

Alternative forms: Sulpitian.

Origin: So called after the parish of St. Sulpice in Paris, of which the founder, Jean Jacques Olier, was pastor in 1643.

Source: Websters Dictionary