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Sabbatarian   Listen
noun
Sabbatarian  n.  
1.
One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue. Note: There were Christians in the early church who held this opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the Seventh-day Baptists, hold it now.
2.
A strict observer of the Sabbath.





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"Sabbatarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... very strictly observed. In our own Sabbatarian family, our toys and books all disappeared on Saturday night. On Sundays we were only allowed to read Line upon Line, The Peep of Day, and The Fairchild Family. I wonder if any one ever reads this book now. If they haven't, they should. Mr. and ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... observed the Saturday after Israelitish fashion. With the day its object changed; instead of "keeping it holy," as all pious Jews still do, the early Fathers converted it into the "Feast of the Resurrection," which could not be kept too joyously. The "Sabbatismus" of the Sabbatarian Protestant who keeps holy the wrong day is a marvellous perversion and the Sunday feast of France, Italy, and Catholic countries generally is far more logical than the mortification day of England and ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... to all that he intended the subject to be dropped. He had a wonderful way of impressing his individuality on others, and the household settled down once more into the Sabbatical calm which had been broken by a bigoted Sabbatarian. ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall


Words linked to "Sabbatarian" :   Judaism, religious person, Sabbath


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