1) Agrypnia 2) Agrypnotic 3) Eve 4) Spying 5) Watch
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1) All-night watch 2) Australian musical 3) Bedside watch 4) Candlelight ceremony 5) Candlelight event 6) Candlelight ritual 7) Candlelit ceremony 8) Christian prayer 9) Close watch 10) Constant alert 11) Continuous watch 12) French word used in English 13) Long watch 14) Night watch 15) Period of wakefulness
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- a period of sleeplessness
- a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
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A vigil, from the Latin vigilia meaning wakefulness (Greek: pannychis, παννυχίς or agrypnia ἀγρυπνία), is a period of purposeful sleeplessness, an occasion for devotional watching, or an observance. The Italian word vigilia has become generalized in this sense and means `eve` (as in on the eve of the war). ==Eves of religious ce.....
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[horse] Vigil (foaled 1873) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. ...
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• (v. i.) 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. • (v. i.) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. • (v. i.) Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious...
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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.' 'Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which atten...
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To stay awake, praying, waiting for a solemn feast or a special event. The one which takes place at Easter is the vigil par excellence
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Vig'il noun [ Middle English vigile , Latin vigilia , from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to English wake : confer French vigile . See Wake , intransitive verb , and confer Reveille , Surveillance , Vedette
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Type: Term Pronunciation: vij′ĭl Definitions: 1. A state of wakefulness or sleeplessness.
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n] - a period of sleeplessness 2. [n] - a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
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noun a period of sleeplessness
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