Dictionary

keep vigil en · VERB

Meanings

1. To wait and watch, especially overnight.
   • We started outside with the fire, then processed into the chapel of the retreat center where we kept vigil for the rest of the night by proclaiming the readings, chanting the psalms, and sitting in prolonged periods of reflective silence. 2013, Joe Paprocki, D. Todd Williamson, Great is the Mystery, page 179:
   • a ruelle is a small lane , but in the bedrooms of the French monarchs of the Golden Age it denoted a narrow area beside the royal bed, where attendants kept vigil over their sleeping monarchs and into which the king's mistresses might.be introduced. 2015, Malcolm Lowry, Miguel Mota, Paul Tiessen, The 1940 Under the Volcano::
   • Sven, for the most part, stayed in the backdrop hovering nervously near the parlor window, where he now kept vigil for newly arriving guests . 2013, John E. Rawson, Blind Vigil, page 102:
2. To observe the deceased overnight.
   • Rafael died this morning, and this afternoon we are going to keep vigil over him.

Forms

Synonyms

have a wake

Translations (14)

ko 철야를 지키다 (to observe the deceased overnight) · de eine Totenwache halten (to observe the deceased overnight) · tl paglamayan (to observe the deceased overnight) · oc velhar (to observe the deceased overnight) · it vegliare (to observe the deceased overnight) · ro priveghea (to observe the deceased overnight) · pt velar (to observe the deceased overnight) · sv ha en vaka (to observe the deceased overnight) · fr veiller (to observe the deceased overnight) · gl velar (to observe the deceased overnight) · ja てつやおする (to observe the deceased overnight) · nl een wake hebben (to observe the deceased overnight) · ca vetllar (to observe the deceased overnight) · es velar (to observe the deceased overnight)