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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It’s not just like, Hey, let’s get Luka Sabbat at our party to be cool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
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
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
This was such a gap: the silence of aftermath, in the dark of the night on the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, at the melted north anchor of Weep.
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
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
For the "rugissements et bondissements, bacchanale et saturnale, galop infernal, ronde du sabbat tout le tremblement," these words give a most clear, untranslatable idea of the Carnival ball.
From The Paris Sketch Book by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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