VIGIL
\vˈɪd͡ʒɪl], \vˈɪdʒɪl], \v_ˈɪ_dʒ_ɪ_l]\
Definitions of VIGIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
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a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
By Princeton University
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a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
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a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
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Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
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Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
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Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
By Oddity Software
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Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
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Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
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Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
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Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
By Noah Webster.
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A keeping awake; wakefulness; a watch through the night; an evening religious service before a religious feast day.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Watching: keeping awake for religious exercises: the eve before a feast or fast day, orig. kept by watching through the night.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Latin] Abstinence from sleep, either usual sleep or at the customary time; sleeplessness; watch ;—watching or waking for religious exercises;—the evening before any feast; a religious service performed in the evening preceding a holiday; also, a fast observed on the day preceding a holiday; a wake.
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