Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several holidays, usually four or eight in number, in Wicca and related Neopagan religious traditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Sabbath .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In mediæval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
witches' Sabbath
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Though not inclined to be superstitious, nor hitherto believing that man could be brought into bodily communication with demons, I felt the terror and the wild excitement with which, in the Gothic ages, a traveller might have persuaded himself that he witnessed a 'sabbat' of fiends and witches.
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The whole sabbat-familiar-broomstick thing was held to be imaginary, not real.
April 9th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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There was no writing on Monday, because it was Mabon, and I had no intention of spending the whole sabbat at a keyboard.
"We've been watching you with all our eyes..." greygirlbeast 2008
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I so desperately want to find a coven, and one reason is so that we do not have to be solely responsible for the details of ceremony on every sabbat and esabat.
Lughnasadh '08 greygirlbeast 2008
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Liams bortgång hade verkligen sabbat allt för Murray.
Boing Boing 2007
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The patriarchal demand for submissive women is reinforced by imagining its opposite: sex with the devil, one of the most striking legendary sabbat practices.
National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006
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Accordingly, Burns is able to provide a fully fleshed-out account of the sabbat Tam encounters:
National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest 2006
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The fast-growing community's biggest holiday - or sabbat, as holidays are also called - Samhain, arrives this weekend, mixing themes of harvest, renewal and communing with the dead.
Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008
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The fast-growing community's biggest holiday - or sabbat, as holidays are also called - Samhain, arrives this weekend, mixing themes of harvest, renewal and communing with the dead.
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Perhaps strangest of all, the sabbat is led by none other than Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General--who may be dead, but isn't gone or by any means forgotten!
treeseed commented on the word sabbat
In Wicca a sabbat is a holiday. There are eight sabbats and they have different names depending on the tradition.
Commonly called:
Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, Mabon
February 18, 2008