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Definition of Vigil

Vigil
Vigil Vig"il, n. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See Wake, v. i., and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable, Vigor.] 1. 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. ``Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months.' --Macaulay. Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. --Addison. 2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned. --Milton. Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate. --Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard). 3. (Eccl.) (a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. (b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, ``To-morrow is St. Crispian.' --Shak. (c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. Vigils, or Watchings, of flowers (Bot.), a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the day. [R.]

Meaning of Vigil from wikipedia

- A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning 'wakefulness' (Gr****: pannychis, παννυχίς or agrypnia ἀγρυπνία), is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion...
- Look up vigil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A vigil is a period of purposeful sleeplessness or watchfulness. Vigil may also refer to: Vigil (film)...
- Vigiles or more properly the Vigiles Urbani ("watchmen of the City") or Cohortes Vigilum ("cohorts of the watchmen") were the firefighters and police of...
- Vigil is a British police procedural drama television series created by Tom Edge and produced by World Productions. The series premiered on BBC One on...
- In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday. The Latin term vigilia,...
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- The Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil, the Great Vigil of Easter, or Holy Sa****ay at the Easter Vigil on the Holy Night of Easter is a liturgy...
- academics say Halloween began independently as a Christian holiday, being the vigil of All Hallows' Day. Celebrated in Ireland and Scotland for centuries, Irish...
- Vigil (/viˈhɪl/ vee-HILL) is a Spanish surname. The Vigil surname comes from the word "vigil,"[citation needed] which is from the Latin "vigilia," meaning...
- was charged with her kidnapping and murder. Vigils were held for Everard on the evening of 13 March. The vigil on Clapham Common, near where she had been...