Sabbath

(sab'bath.) [Heb., rest.) That day appointed by the Almighty for a total ce ation from labor, and upon which all believers are to devote themselves to his service and worship. The Jewish S. is observed on Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as appointed by the Mosaic Law. The great majority of the Christian churches celebrate the first day of the week, Sunday, instead of the 7th (Sabbath). Sabbatical Year, (-bat'e-kal.) (Heb. Chron.) The name applied to every seventh year, being that year in which the Jews were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or to iie without cultivation. The first S. Y. observed by the children of Israel was the 14th year after their arrival in the Land of Canaan; because they were to be seven years in becoming po e ors of it, and seven more in dividing it among them. selves. Sabellians, (sah-belyans.) (Eccl. Hist.) The followers of one Sabellius, a Christian sectary, a supposed presbyter at Ptolemais, Upper Egypt, and who flourished in the 3d cent. Their doctrine was, that the Father was the sole person of the Trinity: the Son and Holy Ghost being merely attributes of, or emanations from, Him. Pope Dionysius condemned the tenets of Sabellianism in a council held at Rome in 260. Sabians. See SABEANS. Sabine, (sa-bēn',) in Louisiana, a W. co., b. on Texas; area, 1,300 sq. m.; C. Manny. Pop. 6,456. -In Texas, anE. co., drained by Sabine river; area, 600 sq. m.; C. Milam. Pop. 3,256. Sabine Cro -roads, (-rōdz,) in Louisiana, a locality abt. 4 m. from Mans field, where, on the 8th April, 1864, the Nationals were defeated by the Confederates with a lo of 10 guns and abt. 7,000 prisoners. Sabine River, in Texas, rises in Hunt co., and, taking a course S.E. and S.; constitutes the boundary line bet. Texas and Louisiana till it enters the Mexican Gulfat Sabine City. Length, 500 miles. An expansion of this stream, called Sabine Lake, bet. Louisiana and Texas, a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, occupies an area of abt. 150 sq. m. Sabines, (sab'inz.) (Anc. Hist.) A powerful aboriginal tribe of Italy, who were not subdued by Rome till the year 290 B. c. Sabin i an us, (sa-bin-e-a'nus,) a Pope, s. St. Greg or i us, 604; D. 606. Sable, (sa'bl.) [Swed. sabel.] (Zool.) See MUST ELIDE. -(Her.) The tincture of black;- represented in engraven shields by cri -cro perpendicular and horizontal lines. Sables d'Olonne, (Les,) (la sah'bl do-lōn',) a seaport of France, dept. Vendée, on the Bay of Biscay, 45 m. S. of Nantes. Pop. 6,000. Sabot, (sab'o.) [Fr.] (Costume.) In France, and some other countries of continental Europe, a kind of clog or wooden shoe worn by the lower cla es of country people. [s. 785]