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esbat

esbat noun: a Wiccan coven gathering other than one of the Sabbats. While a full moon ritual may be held during an esbat, esbats encompass coven business meetings, social occasions, and opportunities for merriment.

Noun

esbat (plural esbats)

  1. A Wiccan coven gathering other than one of the Sabbats. While a full moon ritual may be held during an esbat, esbats encompass coven business meetings, social occasions, and opportunities for merriment.
    • Latter day witches, continuing the age-long cult, frequently made use of these old circles as meeting places, holding esbats, sabbats, and performing their ritual "ring" dances within the circumference of the tall granite stones.1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 146

Forms of esbat

pluralesbats

Origin of esbat

Learned borrowing from Old French esbat, from Old French esbatre (“to frolic, to have fun”), cognate to modern ébat (“frolic”).

Questions about esbat

What does esbat mean?
Esbat means a Wiccan coven gathering other than one of the Sabbats. While a full moon ritual may be held during an esbat, esbats encompass coven business meetings, social occasions, and opportunities for merriment.
What part of speech is esbat?
Esbat is a noun.
What is the plural of esbat?
The plural of esbat is esbats.

Words near esbat in the dictionary

  1. Esav
  2. esaxerenone
  3. Esayan
  4. Esayans
  5. ESB
  6. esbat
  7. esbats
  8. Esbjerg
  9. ESBK
  10. ESBL
  11. ESBLs

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