Sabbatarianadj.n.
/sabəˈtɛːrɪən/ A. adj.
†(a) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath or its observance. Obsolete. (b) Having relation to the tenets of the Sabbatarians.
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Dominical1623
Sabbatariana1631
sabbatical1645
sabbatic1649
Sabbathine1850
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sabbatarial1867
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 361 An Hebdomadary righteousnesse, a Sabbatarian righteousnesse is no righteousnesse.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 129 The rigour and strictnesse of Sabbatarian Ministers, in denying People recreations on the Sunday.
1668 Wells (title) The Practical Sabbatarian or Sabbath Holiness crowned with Superlative Happiness.
1733 D. Neal Hist. Puritans II. 250 These Divines, instead of softening some excesses in Bradbourne's Sabbatarian strictness, ran into the contrary extreme.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 436 These are called Sabbatarian, or Seventh day Baptists.
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 293 With references to Judaical Sabbatarian notions.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty 161 Another important example of illegitimate interference with the rightful liberty of the individual..is sabbatarian legislation.
1863 A. Blomfield Mem. Bp. Blomfield I. vi. 154 He entertained rather strict, or what would now be called ‘Sabbatarian’ notions.
B. n.
1. A Jewish observer of the (Saturday) Sabbath.
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Sabbath-keeper1854
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 149 The word Masbothæi, Scaliger saith, signifieth Sabbatists or Sabbatarians, because they professed to haue learned the obseruation of the Sabbath from Christ, and therein differed from the other Iewes.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 454 These Esseni were yet further, more, and most rigid Sabbatarians, beyond all other sects and schismes amongst the Jewes.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xv. 330 Sabbatarians, became a term of reproach for the Jews with the Polytheists.
2. A Christian who regards the Lord's Day as a Sabbath, deducing its obligation from the Fourth Commandment. Also, and more commonly, one whose opinion and practice with regard to Sunday observance are unusually strict.
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1619 J. Dyke Counterpoison 15 He is none of your precise Sabbatarians.
1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 110 We are now come unto the business of the Lords day, in which our Author sheweth himself a stiffe Sabbatarian.
1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell iii. xxiv. 237 I don't know whether you are a Strict Sabbatarian.
1864 E. B. Eastwick Three Years in Persia I. 4 I am not a Sabbatarian, I showed it by travelling on Sunday.
3. A member of a Christian sect founded towards the close of the sixteenth century, the members of which maintained that the Sabbath should be observed on the seventh and not on the first day of the week; a Seventh-day Baptist. Cf. Sabbatary n., Sabbatharian n.
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Traskist1631
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Saturday Sabbatarian1683
Seventh Day Baptist1699
Sabbatharian1719
Seventh-day Adventist1853
Sabbatist1857
1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. Ep. Ded. sig. πA3 The Sabbatarians affirm the old Jewish Sabbath to be kept, and not the Lords day.
1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 257. ⁋12 Præ-Adamites, Sabbatarians, Cameronians, Muggletonians..and the like.
1821 tr. Trav. Cosmo III 445 Robert Dogs, a coal-man in London, was the first founder of the sect of Sabbatarians.
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