servile work

British  

noun

1. RC Church work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays

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Example Sentences

For the Orthodox Jew, all servile work is forbidden on the Sabbath �and the rule is strictly observed at the Deborah, the world's largest strictly kosher hotel.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because they were forbidden to light a fire, or do any servile work, on that day; and therefore Friday was very properly called the day of preparation.

From The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old by English, George Bethune

The third is the servitude of God; and in this way the work of worship, which pertains to the service of God, may be called a servile work.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Besides this Jewish feast was an holy convocation; no servile work was to be done on this day.

From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Bates, Joseph