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Sabbatical   /səbˈætɪkəl/   Listen
Sabbatical

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the Sabbath.  Synonym: sabbatic.
2.
Of or relating to sabbatical leave.



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"Sabbatical" Quotes from Famous Books



... forgive. Nobody ever interfered with these, or indeed with any other studies of ours at that time, as long as they were not prosecuted on Sundays. "The fightingest parts of the Bible," and the Apocrypha, and stories like that of the Witch of Endor, were sabbatical literature, read in a huge old illustrated Bible. How I advanced from the fairy tales to Shakespeare, what stages there were on the way—for there must have been stages—is a thing that memory cannot recover. A nursery legend tells ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang
... have the gospel preached to them by our Savior, and that the souls of the just are employed to preach the gospel to those who have had no revelation in this life. They suppose the Jewish Sabbath, sabbatical year, and year of jubilee, are typical of certain periods after the general judgment, in which the souls of those who are not then admitted into happiness are purified from their corruption. If any, within those smaller periods, are so far humbled as to ...
— The Book of Religions • John Hayward


Words linked to "Sabbatical" :   Sabbath, sabbatic, leave of absence, leave


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