Sabbatarian

Definition of sabbatarian:

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to the Sabbath or to Sabbatarians.

part of speech: noun

A strict observer of the Sabbath, or of Sunday.

part of speech: noun

SABBATARIANISM.

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to the Sabbath, or to the keeping of the Sabbath.

part of speech: noun

A rigid observer of the Sabbath.

Usage examples for sabbatarian:

• Amongst the refugees for religious liberty who found their billet at Newport were many Jews, between whom and the Sabbatarians the community of the Sabbath was a strong tie, and amongst the formulas of prayer in use even down to my own boyhood I remember a common petition for the restoration of Israel; and the Sabbatarian eye of prophecy looked forward to the day when, in the peace of the millennium, the Jews in Jerusalem should be the witnesses of the faith of the Seventh- Day Baptist Church in the keeping alive the observance of the Eden repose initiated by the Creator. "The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I", William James Stillman.

• The following year my fifth brother, Jacob, on leaving college, took charge of a school in the centre of New York State, built by the Sabbatarian community at large, in De Ruyter, a village of which many of the inhabitants were Sabbatarians, and it was decided that I should go there to follow my studies in preparation for college. "The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I", William James Stillman.

• When He would discredit and expose the barbarism of the Mosaic Sabbatarian laws as interpreted by scribes and Pharisees, He does so by healing the sick and blind upon the Sabbath day. "The Empire of Love", W. J. Dawson.