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sabbat

WordNet
  1. (n) sabbat
    a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Sabbat
    In mediæval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) sabbat
    See Sabbath.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Sabbath

Usage in the news

After forced sabbatical , Duncan rested and ready. blog.mysanantonio.com

Paid sabbaticals are offered by less than 5 percent of US employers, according to the Society for Human Resource Management, which conducts an annual survey of business practices. chronicle.augusta.com

Charli Turner Thorne enjoying her sabbatical . espn.go.com

's on sabbatical , so here are your all-time favorite missions. bez.org

Amy and her blog are on sabbatical until Spring. bez.org

Santa's on Sabbatical This Year. kygl.com

In this sabbatical diary, I (and some great commenters) have discussed the best ways to create a productive work environment when you get that deeply-deserved time away from campus. chronicle.com

In previous entries of my sabbatical diary, one topic that arose was how to handle expansive periods of unstructured time. chronicle.com

At my institution, a semester-long sabbatical comes with full salary. chronicle.com

For starters, sabbaticals are easier to propose to supervisors. csmonitor.com

Rare 3-point sabbatical surprising for Ginobili. blog.mysanantonio.com

Perhaps the most obvious benefit—in the case of unpaid sabbaticals , companies can achieve immediate cost savings while circumventing layoffs. salesandmarketing.com

"I'm calling it a sabbatical leave," Holmgren says of his departure. usatoday.com

FASB Emerging Issues Task Force Addresses Sabbatical Leave. nacubo.org

Why you should take a digital sabbatical . king5.com

Usage in scientific papers

DH gratefully acknowledges sabbatical support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
Josephson junction transmission lines as tunable artificial crystals

When I gave this talk I had just returned to CERN for a 1-year sabbatical.
From SPS to RHIC: Maurice and the CERN heavy-ion programme

Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the DFG. H.S.-B. thanks the Instituto de Matematicas in Cuernavaca for an extremely pleasant stay during his sabbatical. R.A.R. thanks A.
The random phase property and the Lyapunov spectrum for disordered multi-channel systems

Research supported by the Australian Research Council and performed during the author’s sabbatical at Durham University, UK.
On the chromatic number of a random hypergraph

ALK would like to thank the Institute of Astronomy for hospitality during a sabbatical visit.
An Investigation into the Geometry of Seyfert Galaxies

Usage in literature

There were scores of people, most of them sufficiently sabbatical to have assumed their best clothes. "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells

Master, thou shalt present me then to the Sabbat. "The Last Of The Barons, Complete" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There must have been a sabbatic air of comfort about the dining-room which was soothing. "Masques & Phases" by Robert Ross

Every statesman like every professor should have his sabbatical year. "A Preface to Politics" by Walter Lippmann

Whether she was the same as the French Reine du Sabbat is equally difficult to determine. "The Witch-cult in Western Europe" by Margaret Alice Murray

These people haven't had a Sabbatical Bacchanal in seven years. "Pagan Passions" by Gordon Randall Garrett

The institution of the sabbatical year appears to afford another very apt illustration. "Christian Devotedness" by Anthony Norris Groves

MEINHOLD, J. Sabbat und Woche in Alten Testament (Goettingen, 1905). "Introduction to the History of Religions" by Crawford Howell Toy

This is his sabbatical year and he is spending it on a ranch he owns up at Hat Creek, near Mount Lassen. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930" by Various

Of Mr. Groschut it is only necessary to say that he is still at Pugsty, vexing the souls of his parishioners by Sabbatical denunciations. "Is He Popenjoy?" by Anthony Trollope