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Vigil

['vɪdʒɪl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival).

(noun.) a period of sleeplessness.

錄入:默多克--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.

(v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.

(v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.

(v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.

(v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

編輯:莉齐

同義詞及近義詞:

n. Watch, sleeplessness, abstinence from sleep.

編輯:摩尔

解釋/意思:

n. watching: keeping awake for religious exercises: the eve before a feast or fast day originally kept by watching through the night.—n. Vig′ilance wakefulness: watchfulness: circumspection: (obs.) a guard watch.—adj. Vig′ilant watchful: on the lookout for danger: circumspect.—n. Vigilan′te a member of a vigilance committee.—adv. Vig′ilantly.—Vigilance committee (U.S.) an unauthorised body which in the absence or inefficiency of regular courts exercises legal powers of arrest punishment &c. in cases of gross crime: also any self-appointed association for the compulsory improvement of local morals.

整理:丽纳

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