Sabbath

['sæbəθ]

解释:

(noun.) a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims.

编辑:沃伦--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.

(n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.

(n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.

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同义词及近义词:

n. [1]. [With The prefixed.] Sunday, the Lord's day, the day of rest, the Christian sabbath, first day of the week (among Christians), seventh day of the week (among Jews).[2]. Rest, repose, time of rest.

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解释:

n. among the Jews the seventh day of the week set apart for the rest from work: among Christians the first day of the week in memory of the resurrection of Christ called also Sunday and the Lord's Day: among the ancient Jews the seventh year when the land was left fallow: a time of rest.—adj. pertaining to the Sabbath.—n. Sabbatā′rian a very strict observer of the Sabbath: one who observes the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath.—adj. pertaining to the Sabbath or to Sabbatarians.—ns. Sabbatā′rianism; Sabb′ath-break′er one who profanes the Sabbath; Sabb′ath-break′ing profanation of the Sabbath.—adjs. Sabb′athless (Bacon) without Sabbath or interval of rest: without intermission of labour; Sabbat′ic -al pertaining to or resembling the Sabbath: enjoying or bringing rest.—n. Sabbat′ical-year every seventh year in which the Israelites allowed their fields and vineyards to lie fallow.—adj. Sabb′atine pertaining to the Sabbath.—v.i. and v.t. Sabb′atise to keep the Sabbath: to convert into a Sabbath.—n. Sabb′atism rest as on the Sabbath: intermission of labour.—Sabbath-day's journey the distance of 2000 cubits or about five furlongs which a Jew was permitted to walk on the Sabbath fixed by the space between the extreme end of the camp and the ark (Josh. iii. 4); Sabbath School (see Sunday school).—Witches' Sabbath a midnight meeting of Satan with witches devils and sorcerers for unhallowed orgies and the travestying of divine rites.

手打:奥斯伯特

娱乐性解释:

n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. Among the Jews observance of the day was enforced by a Commandment of which this is the Christian version: 'Remember the seventh day to make thy neighbor keep it wholly. ' To the Creator it seemed fit and expedient that the Sabbath should be the last day of the week but the Early Fathers of the Church held other views. So great is the sanctity of the day that even where the Lord holds a doubtful and precarious jurisdiction over those who go down to (and down into) the sea it is reverently recognized as is manifest in the following deep-water version of the Fourth Commandment:

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