sabbath

plural sabbaths

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sabbath.

   Far-right activists had organised their protest for the Jewish sabbath in an area with a 40% Jewish population.

   2015 June 30, Harriet Sherwood, “London neo-Nazi rally moved after outcry from Jewish leaders and MPs”, in The Guardian

plural Sabbaths · alternative sabbath

1. Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.

   Synonyms: Jumu'ah, holy day

2. Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.

   Synonyms: Shabbat, holy day

3. Sunday, observed in Christianity as a day of rest and worship.

   Jerusalem is a city of three Sabbaths–Friday (Muslim), Saturday (Jewish), and Sunday (Christian).

   Synonyms: Lord's Day, holy day

4. A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)

   They travel through the air in various strange conveyances, and it is no easy matter to distinguish between their convention and a Sabbath of the Witches.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 241

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   Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.

   1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112

   Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.

   1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 419

5. historicalAmong the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.

   Synonyms: Sabbath year

6. MyanmarBuddhismSynonym of uposatha, a regular day of fasting, devotion, or other religious observance.

   Synonyms: uposatha