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Definition of Sabbatical year
1. Noun. A sabbatical leave lasting one year.
Definition of Sabbatical year
1. Noun. A year of rest for the land observed every seven years in ancient Judea, which included allowing the fields to lie without tilling, sowing, or reaping from one autumn to the next in accordance with a Levitical commandment. ¹
2. Noun. A leave, often with full or half pay granted (as every seventh year) to one holding an administrative or professional position for rest, travel, or research. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabbatical Year
Literary usage of Sabbatical year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"It was similar to the sabbatical year in its character, although doubtless yet
more important. In the jubilee year debts were to be remitted, and lands were ..."
2. Theology of the Old Testament by Gustav Friedrich Oehler, George Edward Day (1883)
"9, together with the fact that the sabbatical year must also naturally have begun at
... The institutions of the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee, ..."
3. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"The JUBILEE was a more solemn sabbatical year, held every seventh sabbatical
year, that is, at the end of every forty-nine years, or the fiftieth current ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Since the sabbatical year was preceded by six sowings and six harvests (Ex., ...
The absence of any allusion to the celebration of the sabbatical year in ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Since the sabbatical year was preceded by six sowings and six harvests (Ex., ...
The absence of any allusion to the celebration of the sabbatical year in ..."
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