| 释义 |
sabbathize, v.|ˈsæbəθaɪz|
[Altered form of sabbatize after Sabbath.]
intr. To observe or keep a Sabbath or period of rest.
1609Bible (Douay) 1 Esdras i. 58 The land quietly kept her sabbathes, al the time of her desolation she sabbathized in the application of seventie yeares. 1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Gen. ii. 2 Rested: or Sabbathised, that is, kept Sabbath. 1633W. Struther True Happiness 75 This dwelling in God is our spiritual sabbathizing, the type of the eternall. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. i. Wks. 1716 III. 52 The Solemn League and Covenant..Mr. Knox did..bring into Scotland, where it is rampant to this day, and more rigid than the Inquisition in Spain, with the additional Bigotism of Sabbathising. |