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Sabbath school

noun

  1. (among Seventh-Day Adventists) such a school held on Saturday, their holy day.


sabbath school

noun

  1. sometimes capitals a school for religious instruction held on the Sabbath
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sabbath school1

First recorded in 1810–20
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Example Sentences

Many of these young men have been trained in the Sabbath school, but at nineteen or twenty a change comes over them.

Mr. James has also a large Sabbath school; but the number of pupils is not given.

The best examples and the best new improvements are here given for the Sabbath-school artist to copy.

Your Sabbath-school books would not be read, unless you made them an insult to the human understanding.

I knew Mr. Packard thought her insane, and did not want her to discuss these questions in the Sabbath School.

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