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Sabbat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Witches' Sabbath.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. witches' Sabbath

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. In mediæval demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See Sabbath.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy

Word Usage

"Though not inclined to be superstitious, nor hitherto believing that man could be brought into bodily communication with demons, I felt the terror and the wild excitement with which, in the Gothic ages, a traveller might have persuaded himself that he witnessed a 'sabbat' of fiends and witches."

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