witches' Sabbath

American  

noun

Demonology.

1. Sabbat.

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witches' Sabbath British  

noun

1. See Sabbath

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Etymology

Origin of witches' Sabbath

First recorded in 1670–80

Example Sentences

Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the participants in this witches' Sabbath are busy at its quieter passages, they make rather a good thing of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath.

From Time Magazine Archive

But there was something far worse here than dirt, a kind of frightening witches’ Sabbath.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

This gentleman, my worthy colleague, has but just come from the island of St. Brandon, where he preaches on the witches' Sabbath: hence the disorder of his apparel.

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary