Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sabbatic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sabbatic \Sab*bat"ic\, Sabbatical \Sab*bat"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?:
cf. F. sabbatique.]
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath;
enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
{Sabbatical year} (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in
which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields
and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.
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