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
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
As a musician, he had some success playing with Sabbat, an English thrash-metal act.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2018
On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
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
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 Spence, Lewis
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
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