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Sabbatize

[ sab-uh-tahyz ]
/ ˈsæb əˌtaɪz /
(often lowercase)

verb (used without object), Sab·ba·tized, Sab·ba·tiz·ing.

to keep the Sabbath.

verb (used with object), Sab·ba·tized, Sab·ba·tiz·ing.

to keep as the Sabbath.
Also especially British, Sab·ba·tise.

Origin of Sabbatize

1350–1400; Middle English sabbatisen < Late Latin sabbatizāre < Greek sabbatízein, equivalent to sábbat(on) Sabbath + -izein -ize

OTHER WORDS FROM Sabbatize

Sab·ba·ti·za·tion, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Examples from the Web for sabbatize

  • If they had met together to sabbatize, he, certainly, would have been with them.

    Tracts on the Sabbath|Various

  • To sabbatize is to rest from our own secular labors, and keep a season holy to God.

    Tracts on the Sabbath|Various