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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_193044" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_193044" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. i.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. i.) [[Abstinence]] from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. </p> | ||
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20646" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_20646" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 10:18, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
(2): ( v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
(3): ( v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
(4): ( v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
(5): ( v. i.) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [2]
The eve or day before any solemn feast, because then Christians were want to watch, fast and pray in their churches.
