| 单词 | sabbatical year |
| 释义 | > as lemmassabbatical year sabbatical year n. the seventh year, prescribed by the Mosaic law to be observed as a ‘Sabbath’ in which the land was to remain untilled and all debtors and Israelitish slaves were to be released. Also allusively.extracted from sabbaticaladj.n.sabbatical year c. Originally U.S. Designating a period of leave from duty granted to university teachers at certain intervals (originally every seven years) for the purposes of study and travel; spec. in sabbatical year (cf. sense A. 2a). Now frequently transferred, designating rest or absence from other occupations, professions, or activities. sabbatical officer n. a person granted sabbatical leave (from work or study) for the performance of a certain office. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > sabbatical year sabbatical year1886 sabbatical1934 society > leisure > [adjective] > relating to or constituting a period of leisure feriate?a1500 ferialc1500 succisive1619 rope yarn1823 sabbatical1886 recessional1895 sabbatic1905 society > education > educational administration > university administration > [adjective] > sabbatical sabbatical1886 sabbatic1905 1880 Ann. Rep. Pres. & Treas. of Harvard Coll. 1879–80 19 The Corporation adopted, on the 31st of May, 1880, new rules with regard to leave of absence for professors and assistant professors... The Corporation have decided that they will grant occasional leave of absence for one year on half-pay, provided that no professor have such leave oftener than once in seven years.] 1886 E. N. Horsford Scheme adopted by Trustees, Wellesley Coll. 8 To each of the heads of the above departments the Sabbatical Grant contemplates that every seventh year of her academic service from a given date, she shall be eligible to have..a year's leave of absence, to be passed in Europe, and with it her half-yearly salary. If for any reason an eligible officer declines the Sabbatical Year, the grant in her case may be offered to another equally eligible. 1892 W. James Let. 13 July (1920) I. 321 Only why talk of ‘sabbatical’ years? 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 19 Sept. Professors Willcox and Kendall will be absent during the year on sabbatical leave. 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Sept. 8 Professors Allinson, Sears and Hill are spending their sabbatical year of absence in foreign travel and study. 1909 O. H. Ball Their Oxf. Year 5 He was entitled to start on his Sabbatical Year. 1926 B. Russell On Educ. iii. xviii. 242 Every university teacher ought to have a Sabbatical year (one in every seven) to be spent in foreign universities or in otherwise acquiring knowledge of what is being done abroad. 1949 Time 18 Dec. 12/2 Kennan announced that he was leaving the State Department ‘on sabbatical leave’. 1962 Times 12 Apr. 18/2 The break-up of his subsequent marriage impels him to escape from England and to spend a ‘sabbatical year’ in travel. 1972 Nature 4 Feb. 277/2 On sabbatical leave from the Department of Therapeutic Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 1976 Postmaster (Merton Coll., Oxf.) 30 A union of university students, with clearly defined objectives, and with no sabbatical officers. 1976 Gramophone Apr. 1575/3 I'm doing it on May 9th with Rostropovich in the last concert before I take off a sabbatical year, promised to my wife when I reached sixty. < as lemmas |
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