sabbatical year

4 definitions found

sabbatical year - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     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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  Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to
     OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r,
     Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year,
     springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend
     y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.]
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     1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the
        ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its
        revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year;
        also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this,
        adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and
        called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354
        days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360
        days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days,
        and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of
        366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on
        account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
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              Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer.
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     Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly
           commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued
           throughout the British dominions till the year 1752.
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     2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about
        the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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     3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak.
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     Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from
        perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6
        hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
  
     A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased
        person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A  month's mind
        , under Month.
  
     Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
  
     Canicular year. See under Canicular.
  
     Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the
        computation of time.
  
     Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354
        days.
  
     Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from
        leap year.
  
     Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of
        13 lunar months, or 384 days.
  
     Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are
        reckoned, or the year between one annual time of
        settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
  
     Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
  
     Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and
        Julian.
  
     Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
  
     Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical
        months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
  
     Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
  
     Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
  
     Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and
        Sabbatical.
  
     Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from
        any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6
        hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
  
     Tropical year. See under Tropical.
  
     Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an
        act or an event, in order that an entire year might be
        secured beyond all question. --Abbott.
  
     Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini;
        A. D. or a. d.
        [1913 Webster] year 2000 bug

sabbatical year - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sabbatical year
      n 1: a sabbatical leave lasting one year

sabbatical year - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Sabbatical year
  every seventh year, during which the land, according to the law
  of Moses, had to remain uncultivated (Lev. 25:2-7; comp. Ex.
  23:10, 11, 12; Lev. 26:34, 35). Whatever grew of itself during
  that year was not for the owner of the land, but for the poor
  and the stranger and the beasts of the field. All debts, except
  those of foreigners, were to be remitted (Deut. 15:1-11). There
  is little notice of the observance of this year in Biblical
  history. It appears to have been much neglected (2 Chr. 36:20,
  21).