sabbathizev.
/ˈsabəθʌɪz/ intransitive. To observe or keep a Sabbath or period of rest.
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1610 Bible (Douay) II. 3 Esdras i. 58 The land quietly kept her sabbathes, al the time of her desolation she sabbathized in the application of seventie yeares.
1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses & Bk. Psalmes Gen. ii. 2 Rested: or Sabbathised, that is, kept Sabbath.
1633 W. Struther True Happines 75 This dwelling in God is our spiritual sabbathizing, the type of the eternall.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 45 The Solemn League and Covenant,..Mr. Knox..brought into Scotland, where it is rampant to this day, and more rigid than the Inquisition in Spain, with the additional Bigotism of Sabbathising.
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