How To Use Sabbat In A Sentence

  • Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
  • P.S. As you are on sabbatical, can we expect you to be coding in Fortran soon? Exploiting Spatial Memory: Code Canvas | Serendipity
  • And at last he had returned, not in triumph as a master, but as a pilgrim on sabbatical seeking the holy city of his youth. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Soteros epiphaneias, ton proi, hon egrapsen ho Markos eipon (ho kai meta diastoles anagnosteon) anastas de; eita hupostixantes, to hexes rheteon, proi te mia tou sabbatou ephane Maria te Magdalene, aph 'hes ekbeblhukei hepta daimonia. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
  • Even though most such oxen are used for plowing, which is forbidden in the Sabbatical year, it is not unusual for someone to buy an ox for its meat.
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  • The Sabbatarian principle touched not only British religion but many social and economic practices as well.
  • Interestingly the manna did not fall on Sabbath, but the shewbread was renewed each Sabbath.
  • On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas.
  • Retailers, mainly garages and newsagents, have already privately canvassed staff on whether they would be willing to work on the Sabbath.
  • Whereas John had worked outside settled areas, Jesus went from town to town, village to village, usually preaching in synagogues on the sabbath.
  • He needs consecrated men, to hurl them against the organized powers, and inbreaking hordes, that are desecrating the Sabbath, corrupting the Sketches of the Covenanters
  • A sabbath of sabbatism, so others read it, being typical of that sabbatism or rest, both spiritual and eternal, which remains for the people of God, Heb. iv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
  • In preparation for the great feast, the shophar is sounded morning and evening excepting Sabbaths, throughout the entire preceeding month of Elul. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • He was planning to smite his enemies and didn't want to do it on the Sabbath.
  • Liams bortgång hade verkligen sabbat allt för Murray. Boing Boing
  • Most of this book was written in a sabbatical semester in the autumn of 2001, and I would like to thank my Head of Department, Professor Noel Thompson, for granting me this leave.
  • That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath breaker, because his plough goeth every Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
  • She took a sabbatical and has continued with her psychological researches while sailing the South Seas.
  • Is it the duty of an already stretched institution to duplicate the role of common rooms, to cut back the funding to its essential political role, and seek to maintain an unwieldy sabbatical structure?
  • It's got an ecofeminist slant to it. chip posted at 9:01 AM wish I'd had a sabbatical scarf... maybe next time. Sabbatical scarf
  • He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath.
  • Sabbatarianism appeared within the bounds of the association at an early date and Seventh-day Baptist churches were formed (1705 onward). Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
  • John between the preceding vision and the following one, implying, on the one hand, the solemn introduction to the eternal sabbatism which is to follow the seventh seal; and, on the other, the silence which continued during the incense-accompanied prayers which usher in the first of the seven trumpets (Re 8: 3-5). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims
  • Sabbatarianism, with the Lord's Day Alliance, a Canadian invention, in the van; then the gradual tightening of the laws against sexual irregularity, with the unenforceable New York Adultery Act as a typical product; and lastly, the general ploughing up and emotional discussion of sexual matters, with compulsory instruction in "sex hygiene" as its mildest manifestation and the mediaeval fury of the vice crusade as its worst. A Book of Prefaces
  • Matthew, and Thomas, and the still more familiar Jack and Jockey; and even with a few words of Hebrew origin, such as alleluia, balm, bedlam, camel, cider, and sabbath. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
  • And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Ko'hathites, were over the showbread, to prepare it every sabbath. 1 Chronicles 9.
  • So sabbath meals have to be cooked before the Sabbath.
  • I always wanted to play like Tommy Iommi," he said, referring to the guitarist for heav-metal heroes Black Sabbath. Rhys Chatham Brings the Noise
  • Most strikingly, in the belief that the wider dissemination of the Kabbalah would speed up the effectuation of the messianic project, the Sabbateans were systematically teaching it to their women, especially the esoteric Zohar, in which only a small, exclusively male elite would traditionally have been initiated. Sabbateanism.
  • With his wheezing voice and affinity for using his lecture wand as a torture instrument, any midnight Sabbath sounded better.
  • If they choose to go on sabbatical for a full semester, they will receive full pay.
  • Anything that interrupts a matinal sabbath repose is bound to stir things up. Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously
  • The families did not always look favorably upon their daughter’s activities in a mixed organization that was secular from the outset, in which training exercises were held on the Sabbath and holidays, and basic religious strictures such as kashrut and modesty of dress were not observed (the girls wore trousers or shorts). Haganah.
  • While on sabbatical in 1997, the scientist collected preserved leaves from university and museum collections in Europe and the Americas.
  • But we cannot, since even Adam, in innocence, needed one amidst his earthly employments; therefore the sabbath is still needed and is therefore still linked with the other nine commandments, as obligatory in the spirit, though the letter of the law has been superseded by that higher spirit of love which is the essence of law and Gospel alike (Ro 13: 8-10). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Early in the downturn, at least a few businesses were trying to avoid layoffs by using other means - like sabbaticals or pay cuts - to reduce payrolls and headcounts.
  • Puritan jurisprudence, 113; sabbatarian extravagance provokes reaction, 371. A History of American Christianity
  • One of the 10 commandments is to keep the Sabbath Holy.
  • The Sabbath was reserved for Sunday tea - usually in the presence of a posse of relatives, called in by postcard from the tram-rocking outer suburbs.
  • The speaker advocated a less austere observance of the Sabbath.sentence dictionary
  • in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday
  • The evangelical revival made sabbatarianism fashionable, so that on a Victorian Sunday there was no sport or pleasure, not even reading of serious secular literature.
  • And a child that's born on the Sabbath day. 
  • I have elsewhere spoken of a past sabbatarian strictness, and I have lately received an account of a strictness in observing the national fast-day, or day appointed for preparation in celebrating Holy Communion, which has in some measure passed away. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • The Spanish language even has a verb, sabadear, which refers to praying on the Sabbath, for the unknowing Christian assumed that the swaying motion of the Jew during the Amidah was a special part of the Sabbath prayer. Conversas.
  • That the usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. XLI. Of Usury
  • We are specially struck with the reference to theft; while no less noteworthy is the absence of that sabbatarianism, which is the "moral" of the nursery tale. Moon Lore
  • I have an instance of a very grim assertion of extreme sabbatarian zeal. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • No wonder, that: even the lowliest beat cop stood to preserve many times that each month by preserving the system of traffic bribes, shakedowns of neighborhood bodegas that wished to remain open in contravention of the city's labynthine Sabbath laws, in free meals and "flutes" -- Coke bottles topped off with liquor -- from their precincts 'restaurants and bars. May 2008
  • Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.
  • We don't eat meat on Saturdays because of the sabbatine privilege, so this is an excellent idea for today. St. Valentine's Day - A Celebration of Heroic Love
  • Shop on the Sabbath-but remember thy credit limit, and keep it holy. 14.
  • The chazan, or "overseer," in the synagogue answered to the bishop or "angel" of the Church, who called seven of the synagogue to read the law every sabbath, and oversaw them. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Ye s 'hae't afore kirk-time, but ye maun come intil the hoose to get it, for the fowk wud be scunnert to see me workin' upo 'the Sabbath-day. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
  • Jews celebrate the Sabbath by lighting candles before the Sabbath, singing songs, going to synagogue, called shul, by some, and learning. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • God set forth in the Sabbath ordinance His own pattern of rest.
  • 'T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath no o'ered, und t 'sound o' t 'gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking! Wuthering Heights
  • She began to feel blindly that God was not alone the keeper of eternal Sabbaths, but the germinant heat at the heart of the world. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life
  • We "alleviate" the stress by teaching more overloads, doing more class preparations, agreeing to larger class sizes, foregoing sabbaticals, never asking for release time, paying for our own conference trips, making fewer copies of articles, concurring with the hiring of more part-timers and temporary instructors, and so forth. MRZine.org
  • The Sabbath was, I agree, a covenantal sign for the Mosaic covenant, and it certainly ceased as a 7th day covenant.
  • They can't even go to the synagogue to fulfil their religious duties on the Sabbath.
  • And see you not how the mighty engine of _moral power_ is dragging in its rear the Bible and peace societies, anti-slavery and temperance, sabbath schools, moral reform, and missions? or to adopt another figure, do not these seven philanthropic associations compose the beautiful tints in that bow of promise which spans the arch of our moral heaven? The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • He took a year's sabbatical from the Foreign Office.
  • The project started because I was on sabbatical from the University of California at Davis.
  • White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
  • It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet (ala Deep Purple) or unremorsefully jarring in its very density (a la Black Sabbath).
  • Moreover, the Orthodox wouldn't be able to attend synagogue on the Sabbath without an eruv.
  • There are many Israeli companies that "desecrate" the Sabbath already. IAGblog
  • Thus the original meaning of the Sabbath was full moon, a monthly rather than weekly event.
  • Also in attendance, the one and only Henry Rollins, resplendent in "Black Sabbath: Dehumanizer" t-shirt, a marvelous conversationalist since Mr. Rollins currently hosts a show at KCRW-FM, we talk DJs: Sunset Strip impresario and godhead music man Rodney Bingenheimer, as well as the multitalented Steve "Jonesy" Jones. Gregory Weinkauf: William Shatner Salutes The Captains
  • The command to keep the Jewish Sabbath could then be taken metaphorically to refer to any day of rest, and because of the history and customs of this country, that day is Sunday, the Christian sabbath.
  • Although he happily watched me light the sabbath candles and even attended synagogue once, he was never going to be a part of the religious life I was constructing for myself.
  • Although he is a Sabbath walker rather than a regular churchgoer, Berry is no stranger to either church or seminary, although he admits to feeling strange in both places.
  • The middle o 'the road cudna haud the can'le to the paidmints for glaur lest Sabbath. My Man Sandy
  • At the end of his sabbatical year, he signed the official proclamation declaring worldwide eradication of the disease.
  • The patriarchal demand for submissive women is reinforced by imagining its opposite: sex with the devil, one of the most striking legendary sabbat practices. National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest
  • Hearing visiting scholars lecture on general relativity at the university, Weber decided to use his 1955 sabbatical to study the subject in more depth.
  • Also, a hearty "Buon' compleanno!" to Marcello Fondato, the screenwriter of Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH (I tre volti della paura, 1963) and BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (Sei donne per l'assassino, 1964) and many other films, who turns 84 today. The First Doctor's 100th
  • Which is whether or not there's a god, I believe there's something to the idea of sacredness and that the Sabbath can be sacred and rituals can be sacred. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007
  • Then, we embodying the generosity and engagement that pulsates at the heart of Jewish tradition, this day will truly be a portal to a Shabbat LaShem, a Sabbath of the Lord, and we will be living the kind of covenanted community that can ennoble humanity and all creation. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Possessing And Releasing
  • Thousands of neo-Nazis held a rally, marching near a synagogue on the Jewish sabbath.
  • He returned to Zambia in 1997 and ministered as a parish priest in Kabanana, in the Archdiocese of Lusaka until 2004, when he decided to take a sabbatical.
  • Anti-Mason inspired social policies favored by Whigs, such as liquor and sabbatarian legislation, funding of educational and reformatory institutions, and to some extent the antislavery impulse of the party's northern wing.
  • In order to perfect my knowledge of oncogenic viruses, I moved from Carshalton to Glasgow where a new Institute of Virology had been recently inaugurated, headed by a remarkable virologist, Michael Stocker, and where many high-ranking visitors, among them Renato Dulbecco, were spending sabbatical years. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
  • The manner in which Sabbatarians emphasize the phrase “My Sabbath,” and “My holy day,” is well calculated to mislead the unsuspecting, but those who are schooled in biblical literature will regard it as mere _rant_, _cheap theology_, _mere display_! The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
  • For starters, he not only negotiated full professorship and the Jackman Chair in Philosophy, plus a paid sabbatical.
  • The people in this district keep the Sabbath.
  • But when he had spoken awhile of some sacred and mystical numbers, as three for the Trinity, three for the heavenly Hierarchy, seven for the Sabbath, and seven times seven for a Jubilee; and lastly, -- seven times nine for the grand climacterical year; she, perceiving whereto it tended, began to be troubled with it. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • But Sabbath connects us to a God who loves us even in those hours when we feel unaccomplished. Preachers of the Future: Three Sermons From Young Christians
  • When my parents asked me the reason of my nonattendance, I refused to answer them; and at length they became enraged at what they termed my obstinacy, and insisted that I should not fail to attend church on the following Sabbath. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
  • Fifteenth and sixteenth verses gives them a fifty day's Sabbath; twenty-fourth verse says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month in the first day of the month, shall ye have a _Sabbath_, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment
  • Furthermore, in the Exodus 20: 11 passage, Moses speaks of the seventh day ( "yom") to be observed every week as the Sabbath, and in the same breath says this is because everything was created in six yoms with God resting on the seventh. Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy?
  • The ancient Israelites celebrated the sabbath as a day of solemn rest but as a festive occasion as well.
  • For example, if we require active participation on twiki. org, svn, or the mailing list, with short term expiry, we exclude Will Thomas, Adam Hyde, and anyone that goes on a long sabbatical. tbh, i feel this may be a good thing, as voting without a full knowledge of the issues is not as good for the group. TWiki.Codev
  • Lord Ashley was a well-known philanthropist, and his consistent support and patronage of many religious and charitable societies had naturally given him popularity among the Protestant clergy of all denominations, -- a popularity heightened in the case of the Evangelical and Calvinistic ministers by his Lordship's strict Sabbatarianism and his belief in cold dinners on The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
  • He ordered the Temple in Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Greek gods and forbade the practice of circumcision, kashrut, and observance of the Sabbath.
  • Stephen Stokes is currently on sabbatical leave.
  • During a sabbatical term at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifique in Paris in 1985 she studied Gromov's work on elliptic methods which became the basis for much of her later work.
  • Instead, the Sabbath is the seventh and final act of creation, the culmination of Creation - the point of it all.
  • I must be permitted to register clearly the general conviction that if black magic, sorcery, and the Sabbath up to date had been merely revived demonomania, had been merely concerned with the black paternoster, the black mass, or even with transcendental sensualism and the ordeal of the pastos, the Roman hierarchy would not have taken action as it has, nor would the witnesses concerning these things have been welcomed with open arms; as a fact, no interest whatsoever is manifested in the doings of diabolists who operate apart from Masonry. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
  • But not to worry, here's the great Waylon Jennings in barnstorming form to make up for it all and get your sabbath off to a braw and brawlin 'start. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • It's like Alice Cooper channelling Ray Charles in Elton John's living room with Black Sabbath at the mixing desk.
  • He saith unto them, 'Let me go now and become a penitent,' But they say, 'O thou foolishest of men, dost thou not know that this world in which thou art is like the sabbath, and the world out of which thou camest is like the evening of the sabbath? From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • On a Sabbath Jesus and His disciples were walking through a field.
  • Synagogues began… to appoint official precentors, part of whose duty it was to compose poetical additions to the liturgy on special Sabbaths and festivals.
  • Nine artists - ranging from electronic acts, folkies and experimental rockers - gather on this album to pay tribute to Black Sabbath.
  • See both families celebrate the Sabbath eve, one with their entire group and the other at home.
  • More than two hundred years after this report the small, but continuing, United Society of Shakers lives, works and witnesses its faith together in Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
  • After the Sabbath, we would wander off to the fields and have a feast with fish cooked on the spit, Iraqi pita and arak .
  • We decided to celebrate the Sabbats by composing rituals to Goddesses of the Celtic pantheon.
  • ‘Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy’ is not something we can blow off, according to the Deuteronomist.
  • Sunday in increasingly multicultural America will probably lose even more of its strict sabbatarian character, but Mr. Miller doubts that its specialness will ever be entirely lost. The Day of Restlessness
  • It should seem that, by some kind of enchantments, they had thrown him into a delirium so far, that he had forgot both himself and the sabbath-day. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • He took sabbatarianism as a type of the things that should be set at nought. De Profundis
  • Accordingly, Burns is able to provide a fully fleshed-out account of the sabbat Tam encounters: National Demons: Robert Burns, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Folk in the Forest
  • One of the notable features of the age was the Sabbatarianism which forbade not only drink and games but even secular reading on Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • His most recent album is best described by Albini himself: ‘Nick Drake fronting Black Sabbath, if Black Sabbath played only the good parts of their songs’. Quite!
  • It was considered a sin to work or play on the Sabbath.
  • His studies in a small town in Kansas during two sabbatical leaves at Wichita State University confirmed the structural differences he expected from the literature.
  • To the most religious people in the world at that time God said: Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies.
  • This includes scientists and researchers working on government grants or on sabbatical.
  • And when evening was now come (because it was the Parasceve, that is, the day before the sabbath), Joseph of Arimathea, a noble counsellor, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, came and went in boldly to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Sarx
  • Orthodox Jews should be able to observe the Saturday sabbath and not be forced to have their hair cut.
  • It was considered a sin to work or play on the Sabbath.
  • What I seek most is God alone, the God discovered in sabbath emptiness and silence, the God who cannot be added to a grocery list of other happenings and thrills, who cannot be managed or comprehended, who can only be loved.
  • Every week religious Jews observe the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day, and keep its laws and customs.
  • I so desperately want to find a coven, and one reason is so that we do not have to be solely responsible for the details of ceremony on every sabbat and esabat. Lughnasadh '08
  • Anno 1270, at [6602] Magdeburg in Germany, a Jew fell into a privy upon a Saturday, and without help could not possibly get out; he called to his fellows for succour, but they denied it, because it was their Sabbath, non licebat opus manuum exercere; the bishop hearing of it, the next day forbade him to be pulled out, because it was our Sunday. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Free time not just through the ancient practice of the Sabbath but also through new ways, appropriate to an industrial/informational economy, of pausing from overwork and overstress.
  • But the Waldensians, encouraged by the Scots, held to the forms shaped by their own traditions and the Swiss Reformation, though they were almost equally resistant to Scots pressures to turn them into sabbatarians.
  • He produced some altarpieces, but his main speciality was in small cabinet pictures with historical, mythological, or allegorical themes as well as genre and fantastical scenes, such as the witches' sabbath.
  • After all, the author of "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater" has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip. A Tale Of Exes And Ohs
  • Hate to be a stickler, you two, but the sabbath is actually Saturday, not Sunday. Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’
  • THE SABBATH UNDER CROSSFIRE refutes the common arguments used to negate the continuity and validity of the Sabbath. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Half the time, all Charles needs to do is point the camera: the Institute for Science and Halacha, in Jerusalem, is a mad nest of creaking, puffing, Sabbath-circumventing machines — no commentary required. An Atheist Walks Into a Bar …
  • Larrinaga plans to take a year's sabbatical to travel and study.
  • THIS DAY! after this day was come, God never, that we read of, made mention with delight of the old seventh-day Sabbath more. The Riches of Bunyan
  • It seems that it is enough to bless the Goddess or the God, or to bring wine and cakes to the Sabbat, or to give up some of one's time.
  • But in the 19th century, this essential work was seriously disrupted by the strict sabbatarianism and stifling dominance of the church.
  • And yet, as it was necessary to appoint a certain day, in order that the people might know when they should assemble, the _Christian church_, (not the apostles,) has up appointed Sunday (the Lord's day) for this purpose; and to this change she was the more inclined and willing, that the people might have an example of Christian _liberty_, and might know that _the observance of neither the Sabbath nor any other day is necessary_. American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
  • Last week Times editor Peter Stothard announced he is taking an unscheduled sabbatical.
  • [21] As the Jewish sabbath began at six o'clock on Friday evening, and lasted till six on Saturday evening, we may infer it was after the close of its sacred hours (at "eventide") He reached Bethany. Memories of Bethany
  • He will surround your Garden with new edifices and piazzas: though narrowed, it shall be replanted; dizened with hydraulic jets, cannon which the sun fires at noon; things bodily, things spiritual, such as man has not imagined; -- and in the Palais-Royal shall again, and more than ever, be the Sorcerer's Sabbath and Satan-at-Home of our Planet. The French Revolution
  • The whole sabbat-familiar-broomstick thing was held to be imaginary, not real. April 9th, 2009
  • For now we come to the seventh Psalm, the Psalm for the Sabbath. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
  • As scholar in residence, he will implement the sabbatical program.
  • Rattler for rattle-snake, pike for turnpike, draw for drawbridge, coon for raccoon, possum for opossum, cuss for customer, cute for acute, squash for askutasquash—these American back-formations are already antique; Sabbaday for Sabbath-day has actually reached the dignity of an archaism, as has the far later chromo for chromolithograph. Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
  • She said keeping the seventh-day Sabbath was a "stupid notion, " for you can't tell which is the seventh day.
  • The primary object of the sabbath is holiness, not merely rest: "Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Though not inclined to be superstitious, nor hitherto believing that man could be brought into bodily communication with demons, I felt the terror and the wild excitement with which, in the Gothic ages, a traveller might have persuaded himself that he witnessed a 'sabbat' of fiends and witches. The Coming Race
  • Help me to rest in you on your Sabbath, to find peace for my soul, refreshment for my spirit and new life for my flesh.
  • First, I am going to take a sabbatical half-year to reflect.
  • And a child that's born on the Sabbath day. 
  • The market was bustling with shoppers stocking up on supplies prior to the Sabbath.
  • I thank the Lord that I was able to fulfil all my duties while on board the barque, that is, to preach once on the Sabbath, hold prayers every morning and evening, and say grace at every meal. The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa
  • They wanted to see companies offer more career breaks, sabbaticals, term-time working and subsidised homeworking.
  • From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the LORD.
  • Sunday is the Lord's Day, the Christian sabbath on which we rest from our labors and in Christ and refresh ourselves in worship.
  • Nor are the sabbath candles in a Jewish household lit by a rabbi - unless she happens to be the leader of a synagogue that ordains women.
  • After a while I got one of the students to write a publishment, and sent it to the Rev.Mr. M.; he did not read it the next Sabbath, as was customary, and I went to see him. Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time
  • The public dinner was already over, being Sabbath; but the proprietor of our hotel, a worthy Quaker named Potter, got us a very comfortable meal at five o'clock, according to our wishes: meantime we rid ourselves of the accumulated dust of two days, and were comfortably established in out-quarters, the hotel being full. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • James Painter is executive editor for the Americas at the BBC World Service, currently sabbatical.
  • The jubilee is a celebration of restoring things to their proper owners, a Shabbat LaShem, a Sabbath of the Lord's, because God's vision is a broad, beautiful and reliable vision: We do not have to possess to be worthy. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Possessing And Releasing
  • He took a year's sabbatical from the Foreign Office.
  • Jew would rather die than labor on the sabbath; the Persian would endure suffocation, before he would blow the fire with his breath; the Indian places supreme perfection in besmearing himself with cow-dung, and pronouncing mysteriously the word Aum; * the Mussulman believes he has expiated everything in washing his head and arms; and disputes, sword in hand, whether the ablution should commence at the elbow, or finger ends; ** the Christian would think himself damned, if he ate flesh instead of milk or butter. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
  • An Australian nurse from Melbourne, aged twenty-five, on a year-long sabbatical travelling around the world, if anyone cared to ask. CHAMELEON
  • They would not put off the funeral till the sabbath day, because the sabbath is to be a day of holy rest and joy, with which the business and sorrow of a funeral do not well agree. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • During the 1650s, English Puritans attempted to replace the irregular festival calendar with the weekly and subdued Sabbath rest.
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, for a six-month sabbatical, he used the occasion to review the work he and his various teams have done over the past 10 years or so - and bravely assessed the success or otherwise of the major various initiatives in which he has been involved - and MESUR (not for the acronymically faint-hearted). Hangingtogether.org
  • ‘Your harvest’s aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. Lean Left » Blog Archive » Read Your Bible, A Continuing Series
  • Do you know if anybody has purposely marketed an electronic workaround for sabbatarian rules? The Volokh Conspiracy » Kay Hymowitz on Libertarianism and Civil Rights:
  • Suppose this point then settled, for anything would be remarkable and highly rememberable which comes near to a common familiar fraction of so vast a period in human affairs as a millennium [a term consecrated to our Christian ears, (1) by its use in the Apocalypse; (2) by its symbolic use in representing the long Sabbath of rest from sin and misery, and finally (3) even to the profane ear by the fact of its being the largest period which we employ in our historical estimates]. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
  • What I wouldn't give to see a Sabbat pack roll through emo boy vampville and shovelhead the whole f**king lot of them. Cracked: All Posts
  • Likewise, the Christian practice of keeping sabbath provides the time we need to break bread together - and the joyful breaking of bread at home and in worship helps us to keep sabbath.
  • Coming with a party of gentlemanly fellows slowly rowing up the Thames and humming some passionate recitative from an opera, he alone could recall the charmful stillness of a Scotch Sabbath, the worshiping crowds, and the evening psalm ascending from so many thousand hearthstones: Winter Evening Tales
  • The speaker advocated a less austere observance of the sabbath.
  • `She's going to Rabbi Winter's synagogue for Sabbath services. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
  • Exodus 35: 2 clearly says working on the Sabbath is a mortal sin. Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
  • A man of irreproachable personal piety who nevertheless has no objection to his neighbors’ boozing on the Sabbath or fornicating in haylofts is not a Puritan.
  • A rest in glory, the everlasting sabbatism of heaven, which is the repose and perfection of nature and grace too, where the people of God shall enjoy the end of their faith and the object of all their desires. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • He added: ‘We can run more sabbatical courses for priests and that would allow us to maintain the facility.’
  • In this major proposition the minor, of the seventh-day Sabbath, is involved. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880
  • The saints enter into peace on this side heaven, and enjoy a present sabbatism. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • The Czar's officers take taxes, we must pay more for our kosher meat, and for the candles for Sabbath, we must pay to the funeral society, pay to the officers of the kahal, and for what do we not pay? An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
  • It was considered a sin to work or play on the Sabbath.
  • “Quumque Hierosolymam accessisset, et ibidem aliquandiu mansisset, pontificis filiam ducere in animum induxisse, et eam ob rem proselytum factum, atque circumcisum esse; postea quod virginem eam non accepisset, succensuisse, et adversus circumcisionem, ac sabbathum totamque legem scripsisse.” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Anbar decided to take some R&R through his company's sabbatical program, which allows consultants to take one or two months off per year - in addition to vacation time.
  • According to the Law of Moses, faithful Jews were expected to keep the Sabbath sacred as a day of rest.
  • And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.
  • C. W. Woodworth spent his sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley, at the University of Nanking in 1918.
  • Continuing research initiated during the sabbatical leave of Professor Hildebrand, a series of research projects are exploring the issue of bus safety in Australia.
  • The paper was written whilst on sabbatical at Pennsylvania State University, where much logistical support and scientific stimulus was given by D. W. Burbank and colleagues.
  • We had got the little Sabbath-school room painted and papered, and the cushions of the main room new covered, and we had engaged to have it frescoed, but the frescoer had turned out to be a perfect fraud, and, of all the lookin 'things, that meetin' house wuz about the worst. Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete
  • The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath. Ulysses
  • Besides keeping meticulous records, the fifth earl of Huntingdon was a man of exemplary piety, a moderate Calvinist who was obsessed with sabbatarianism.
  • And his dress, in her opinion, was enough to frighten a hodman, of a scavenger of the roads, instead of the decent suit of kersey, or of Sabbath doeskins, such as had won the respect and reverence of his fellow-townsmen. Lorna Doone
  • The Middle Ages, more than any other period, are rich in instances of that intimate blending of the comic and the horrible which we call the grotesque; the witches 'Sabbath, the hoofed and horned devil, the hideous figures of Dante's hell; the A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Today, new businesses could sell tofu, miso, felafel, soy burgers, and vegetarian cholent (Sabbath hot dish).

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