Sabbatize

[ sab-uh-tahyz ]

verb (used without object),Sab·ba·tized, Sab·ba·tiz·ing.
  1. to keep the Sabbath.

verb (used with object),Sab·ba·tized, Sab·ba·tiz·ing.
  1. to keep as the Sabbath.

Origin of Sabbatize

1
1350–1400; Middle English sabbatisen<Late Latin sabbatizāre<Greek sabbatízein, equivalent to sábbat(on) Sabbath + -izein-ize
  • Also especially British, Sab·ba·tise .

Other words from Sabbatize

  • Sab·ba·ti·za·tion, noun

Words Nearby Sabbatize

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How to use Sabbatize in a sentence

  • If they had met together to Sabbatize, he, certainly, would have been with them.

  • To Sabbatize is to rest from our own secular labors, and keep a season holy to God.