sabbatical year
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- a sabbatical leave lasting one yearType of sabbatical, sabbatical leave
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Sabbatical year
Jewish antiquity, every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.
From the entry Sabbatical.
Platonic year, Sabbatical year
. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical.
From the entry Year.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54