Sabbat

Sometimes sabbath
Or sab·bat

[sab-uht]

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.

sabbat

/ ˈsæbæt, -ət /

noun

1. another word for Sabbath

Word History and Origins

Origin of sabbat¹

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

Example Sentences

It’s not just like, Hey, let’s get Luka Sabbat at our party to be cool.

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

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Following her split from Bendjima, Kardashian struck up a relationship with "Grown-ish" actor Luka Sabbat, now 23.

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Gone, inevitably, is a chapter in which della Porta described an experiment with an unguent supposedly used by witches to enable them to fly to the sabbat: he had conveniently made the acquaintance of a witch who agreed to provide a demonstration of her powers.

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

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