Sabbath school

noun

1. Sunday school.
2. (among Seventh-Day Adventists) such a school held on Saturday, their holy day.

sabbath school

noun

1. sometimes capitals a school for religious instruction held on the Sabbath

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sabbath school¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Many of these young men have been trained in the Sabbath school, but at nineteen or twenty a change comes over them.

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Mr. James has also a large Sabbath school; but the number of pupils is not given.

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The best examples and the best new improvements are here given for the Sabbath-school artist to copy.

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Your Sabbath-school books would not be read, unless you made them an insult to the human understanding.

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I knew Mr. Packard thought her insane, and did not want her to discuss these questions in the Sabbath School.

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