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
After they split, Sabbat was later rumored to date Kardashian's younger sister Kendall Jenner.
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
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
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
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
The clear implication was that the sabbat was an hallucination, not a reality.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Filthy rags are prayer cakes left over from the last sabbat and become holed coffins for those still searching for involvement.
From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron
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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