(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:48:15

Sab`ba*ta"ri*an (?), n. [L. Sabbatarius: cf. F. sabbataire. See Sabbath.]

1.

One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, aggreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue.

There were Christians in the early church who held this opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the Seventh-day Baptists, hold it now.

2.

A strict observer of the Sabbath.

 

© Webster 1913.

Sab`ba*ta"ri*an, a.

Of or pertaining to the Sabbath, or the tenets of Sabbatarians.

 

© Webster 1913.

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