| 单词 | vigil |
| 释义 | vigil /vij"euhl/, n. 1. wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping. 2. a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times: The nurse kept her vigil at the bedside of the dying man. 3. a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep. 4. Eccles. a. a devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep. b. Sometimes, vigils. a nocturnal devotional exercise or service, esp. on the eve before a church festival. c. the eve, or day and night, before a church festival, esp. an eve that is a fast. [1200-50; ME vigil(i)e < AF < ML vigilia eve of a holy day, special use of L vigilia watchfulness, equiv. to vigil sentry + -ia -Y3] |
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