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  Sabbat

  noun

  in Wicca or neopagan religions, one of eight annual festivals of seasonal celebration and ritual observance, including the solstices, equinoxes, and other days.
• sabbat
  sabbat

  noun

  another word for Sabbath

Sabbat

American  

[sab-uht] / ˈsæb ət /

Sometimes sabbath or sabbat

noun

1. in Wicca or neopagan religions, one of eight annual festivals of seasonal celebration and ritual observance, including the solstices, equinoxes, and other days.

2. Also called witches' Sabbath. in the 14th–16th centuries, a secret rendezvous of witches and sorcerers for worshiping the Devil, characterized by orgiastic rites, dances, feasting, etc.

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sabbat British  

/ ˈsæbæt, -ət /

noun

1. another word for Sabbath

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Etymology

Origin of Sabbat

First recorded in 1645–55; from French: special use of sabbat Sabbath

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Example Sentences

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After they split, Sabbat was later rumored to date Kardashian's younger sister Kendall Jenner.

From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021

The company also sought to recruit celebrities and social media influencers with large numbers of underage followers, such as Miley Cyrus and Instagram influencer Luka Sabbat.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2020

Selena Gomez, Luka Sabbat and Austin Butler play out-of-town visitors who are unflatteringly described as “urban hipsters,” which is nothing if not self-referential on Jarmusch’s part.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2019

Biff Byford, Saxon’s 67-year-old singer, met Mr. Sneap in the late 1980s when his band and Sabbat shared a festival bill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2018

So Lazlo didn’t ask himself What could I do? that morning as the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon dawned in the city of Weep, but “What will I do?”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

An imaginative person versed in pagan lore might have guessed that this company in the woods was a sabbat of warlocks and witches who had coursed here from coverts in every cranny of the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

His housekeeper there had complained that a local witch was slowly destroying a stone wall that obstructed a path used by witches northward bound to sabbat revels.

From Time Magazine Archive

The clear implication was that the sabbat was an hallucination, not a reality.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Occasionally witches proceed to the sabbat on flying horses.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence

Filthy rags are prayer cakes left over from the last sabbat and become holed coffins for those still searching for involvement.

From The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Brown

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