Sabbath
nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈsæbəθ//
Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.
noun
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Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.
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Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.
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Sunday, observed in Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
Jerusalem is a city of three Sabbaths–Friday (Muslim), Saturday (Jewish), and Sunday (Christian).
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A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
They travel through the air in various strange conveyances, and it is no easy matter to distinguish between their convention and a Sabbath of the Witches.
Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.
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historicalAmong the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
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Synonym of uposatha, a regular day of fasting, devotion, or other religious observance.
Etymology
From Middle English sabat, sabbat, sabath, from Old English sabat and Old French sabbat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”), with the spelling ending in -th, probably influenced by the traditional transliteration of the Hebrew as shabbāth, being attested since the 14th century and widespread since the 16th. Doublet of Shabbat. Possibly from the Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest").
Forms
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- Sabbaths
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