Vigil
61vigil — i (L). Awake, on the watch …
62vigil — n. 1. Watch, sleeplessness, abstinence from sleep. 2. Devotional watching, waking for religious exercises. 3. Wake …
63Vigil — The knight’s watch the night before his elevation to knighthood, the accolade, frequently conducted upon the altar at a church. There is little mention of the practice before the late 15th century, yet it has become an iconographic part of the… …
64vigil — n 1. sleeplessness, wakefulness, insomnia. 2. watch, watch and ward, lookout; wake; Inf. stakeout; sharp eye, eagle eye, sleepless eye, Inf. peeled eye …
65vigil — vig·il …
66vigil — Канун …
67vigil — [ˈvɪdʒɪl] noun [C] a period of time when you stay quietly in a place, for example as a protest or when you are looking after someone who is ill …
68vigil — /ˈvɪdʒəl / (say vijuhl) noun 1. a keeping awake for any purpose during the normal hours of sleep. 2. a watch kept by night or at other times; a course or period of watchful attention. 3. a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep. 4.… …
69vigil — This word (from the Latin vigilia, meaning watch or watchfulness ) refers to the practice of anticipating a feast day by praying the day or night before the actual event. See wake …
70Vigil — This is the watch a man kept the night before he was to be made a knight. This was not practiced much before the fifteenth century …
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