in Wicca or neopagan religions, one of eight annual festivals of seasonal celebration and ritual observance, including the solstices, equinoxes, and other days.
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.
First recorded in 1645–55; from French: special use of sabbat Sabbath
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Following her split from Bendjima, Kardashian struck up a relationship with "Grown-ish" actor Luka Sabbat, now 23.
From Fox News ● Oct. 19, 2021
I go online and see the other stars of their ad campaign: Luka Sabbat and his dad, Kim Gordon and daughter Coco together.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2019
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
As a musician, he had some success playing with Sabbat, an English thrash-metal act.
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
Had not fatigue compelled the actors in this sabbat to stop after ten minutes' exertion, I doubt that we should have been able to support a longer continuance of such a spectacle.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
Occasionally witches proceed to the sabbat on flying horses.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
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