Difference between revisions of "Vigil"

<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>