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Definition of Sabbatic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Sabbath. "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims"
Definition of Sabbatic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Definition of Sabbatic
1. Adjective. (alternative form of sabbatical) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sabbatic
1. a year of release from normal teaching duties [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabbatic
Literary usage of Sabbatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners by Richard Watson, Nathan Bangs (1832)
"THE FALLOW or sabbatic YEAR. Agricultural labour among the Jews ceased every
seventh year. Nothing was sown and nothing reaped ; the vines and the olives ..."
2. Eight Studies of the Lord's Day by George Seaman] [Gray (1884)
"It was, therefore, the only one connected with the sabbatic system. ... These five
members of the sabbatic system were bound together by three circumstances ..."
3. Bible Chronology: Carefully Unfolded ... to which is Added a Restoration of by Smith Bartlett Goodenow (1896)
"GIVEN sabbatic YEARS. § 65. Thus evident are the true jubilee reckonings. ...
The ideal sabbatic was a time, not only for rest and recuperation of the land ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"According to the Pentateuchal legislation contained in Leviticus, a Jubilee year
is the year that follows immediately seven successive sabbatic years (the ..."
5. Biblical Archaeology by Louis Berkhof (1915)
"The sabbatic Year. In accordance with a divine injunction the soil of Palestine
was to be left uncultivated every seventh year, Ex. 23 : 10, 11 ; Lev. ..."
6. History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week by John Nevins Andrews (1912)
"... of the commandment — Revolution of the earth upon its axis — Name of the
sabbatic institution— Seventh day of the commandment identical with the seventh ..."
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