Vigil
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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.
