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Definition of Sabbatical
1. Noun. A leave usually taken every seventh year.
Generic synonyms: Leave, Leave Of Absence
Specialized synonyms: Sabbatical Year
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the Sabbath. "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims"
3. Adjective. Of or relating to sabbatical leave. "Sabbatical research project"
Definition of Sabbatical
1. Adjective. Relating to the Sabbath. ¹
2. Adjective. Relating to a sabbatical. ¹
3. Noun. An extended period of leave, often one year long, taken by an employee in order to carry out projects not otherwise associated with the employee's job. During the sabbatical, the employer may pay some or all of the wages that would have been otherwise earned or some or all of the expenses incurred. University lecturers, for example, may be granted a one-year paid sabbatical once every seven years. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sabbatical
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabbatical
Literary usage of Sabbatical
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 first of these was the sabbatical YE AB. For, as the seventh day of the week
was consecrated as a day of rest to man and beast, so this gave rest to the ..."
4. Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil, Franz Delitzsch (1866)
"The law for the sabbatical and jubilee years brings to a close the laws ...
The sabbatical YEAR.—When Israel had come into the land which the Lord gave to ..."
5. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"It was similar to the sabbatical year in its character, although doubtless yet more
... 8-11 ) that this year followed every seventh sabbatical year, ..."
6. Democracy and Liberty by William Edward Hartpole, Lecky (1896)
"The institution of the sabbatical year provided that in every seventh year all
... There are many allusions to the sabbatical year and its observances in ..."
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