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sabbatic
Part of speech: AdjectivePert. to or resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing rest.
Usage examples "sabbatic":- The children, a girl of seven and a boy of four, sat on the doorstep in a sort of dazed inertia, occasioned by the shock of the household's sudden and somewhat perplexing return to its week- day atmosphere just as they had adjusted themselves to the low Sabbatic temperature engendered by the minister's presence. - "Stories of the Foot-hills", Margaret Collier Graham.
- When the Jews prosper, ye claim kindred with them; When the Jews suffer, ye are Medes and Persians: I know that in the days of Alexander Ye claimed exemption from the annual tribute In the Sabbatic Year, because, ye said, Your fields had not been planted in that year. - "The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- On these he makes Christmas carols, which grow ever more and more burlesque, forming a true Sabbatic literature. - "La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages", Jules Michelet.