sabbaticaladj.n.

1645 City Alarum 20 The formerly mentioned are but our working dayes abuses, now followes our seventh and Sabbaticall errour, wherein we seeme to rest.

1801 J. Corry Satir. View London 123 The curate is so far from being prepared for his sabbatical avocation, that he is often engaged during the week in some worldly pursuit.

1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 308 It serves, besides, to throw light on the prominence of the Sabbatical command.

1877 M. Oliphant Carita II. xxxi. 291 This, too, was a kind of solemn sabbatical exercise.

1892 A. Birrell Res Judicatæ ii. 38 A sabbatical calm results from the contemplation of his labours.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 519 This was the issue of their Pilgrimage to the Sabbaticall streame, which they supposed to finde in this Persian Gulfe.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xiv. 51 The sabbaticall pool in Judea, which was dry six dayes, but gushed out in a full stream upon the sabbath.

1671 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1673) viii. 151 The famous Sabbatical River..which for 6. days bear's all before it..: the admirable nature of that River is, that it keeps the Sabbath and rests all that day.

1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xi. (1857) 221 And must my life, then, be always like the Sabbatical river of the Jews, flowing in full stream only on the seventh day?

1836 H. Taylor Statesman xi. 79 It were to be wished that he should set apart from business, not only a sabbatical day in each week, but if it be possible a sabbatical hour in each day!

1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 2 These Sabbaticall yeares.

1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 66 (note) in Poems From hence contracts, and the account of Sabbatical years and Jubilees bare date.

1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 19 Neither Seventh Days.., nor Sabbath Days, nor Sabbathical Years,..is now any more obligatory to us.

1828 E. Irving Last Days p. viii May it prove unto us as a sabbatical year of rest!

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. i. 278 He conceaveth the Elementall frame shall end in the seventh or Sabbaticall millenary . View more context for this quotation

1814 J. Christie Ess. Worship Elements 11 The supposed continuance of this earth as many thousand years, the last thousand of which, it was reported, would be a Sabbatical Millenium.

1880 Ann. Rep. Pres. & Treas. of Harvard Coll. 1879–80 19 The Corporation adopted, on the 31st of May, 1880, new rules with regard to leave of absence for professors and assistant professors... The Corporation have decided that they will grant occasional leave of absence for one year on half-pay, provided that no professor have such leave oftener than once in seven years.]

1886 E. N. Horsford Scheme adopted by Trustees, Wellesley Coll. 8 To each of the heads of the above departments the Sabbatical Grant contemplates that every seventh year of her academic service from a given date, she shall be eligible to have..a year's leave of absence, to be passed in Europe, and with it her half-yearly salary. If for any reason an eligible officer declines the Sabbatical Year, the grant in her case may be offered to another equally eligible.

1892 W. James Let. 13 July (1920) I. 321 Only why talk of ‘sabbatical’ years?

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 19 Sept. Professors Willcox and Kendall will be absent during the year on sabbatical leave.

1905 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Sept. 8 Professors Allinson, Sears and Hill are spending their sabbatical year of absence in foreign travel and study.

1909 O. H. Ball Their Oxf. Year 5 He was entitled to start on his Sabbatical Year.

1926 B. Russell On Educ. iii. xviii. 242 Every university teacher ought to have a Sabbatical year (one in every seven) to be spent in foreign universities or in otherwise acquiring knowledge of what is being done abroad.

1949 Time 18 Dec. 12/2 Kennan announced that he was leaving the State Department ‘on sabbatical leave’.

1962 Times 12 Apr. 18/2 The break-up of his subsequent marriage impels him to escape from England and to spend a ‘sabbatical year’ in travel.

1972 Nature 4 Feb. 277/2 On sabbatical leave from the Department of Therapeutic Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

1976 Postmaster (Merton Coll., Oxf.) 30 A union of university students, with clearly defined objectives, and with no sabbatical officers.

1976 Gramophone Apr. 1575/3 I'm doing it on May 9th with Rostropovich in the last concert before I take off a sabbatical year, promised to my wife when I reached sixty.