Saale
a river of Germany; distinguished from smaller rivers of the same name as the Saxon or Thuringian Saale, rises on the W. slope of the Fichtelgebirge (Bavaria), and flowing N. th through several minor States, finally across Prussian Saxony, past the towns of Hof, Rudolstadt, Jena, Naumburg, Weissenfels, Merseburg, and Halle, falls into the Elbe, about 25 miles above Magdeburg, after a course of 226 miles. It is navigable from Naumburg to its confluence with the Elbe, a distance of 99 miles, for vessels up to 200 tons.
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Saalfeld
a town in the former Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, Germany, S situated on the left bank of the Saale, 87 miles S. W. of Leipzig. Its importance is based on its manufacturing, its industries being principally knit goods, paints, and machinery. Pop. about 15,000. SAARBRÜCK, or SAARBRÜCKEN (French, Sarrebruck), a town of Rhenish Prussia; on the Saar; 40 miles S. E. of Treves; the center of a large coalfield, and of iron and glass works, with manufactures of tobacco, chemicals, metal utensils, etc. Here, on Aug. 2, 1870, the first engagement took place between the French and Germans, the latter retreating. As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty, the town came, at least temporarily, under French control. See SARRE BASIN. Pop. about 106,000.
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Sabadilla
CEBADILLA, or CE- VADILLA, the name given in commerce to the pulverized seeds of two plants, the Asagræa officinalis of Lindley, and the Veratrum Sabadilla, both belonging to the natural order Melanthaceæ.
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Sabatier
PAUL, a French writer. He was born at St. Michel de Chabril lanoux, in the Cevennes, in 1858, and was educated at the Faculté de Théologie, Paris, becoming in 1885 vicar of the St. Nicolas Church of Strasbourg. In 1885 he published the Greek text of the Didachè, but it was his "Vie de St. François" which made his name well-known, and the work was translated into several languages. After that appeared: "Collection d'études et des documents sur l'histoire litteraire et religieuse du moyen age"; "Speculum Perfectionis seu sancti Francisci Assisiensis Legenda Antiquissima, auctore fr. Leone"; "Modernism."
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Sabbatarian
in the 16th century, a sect who considered that the Christian Sabbath should be kept on the seventh day (Saturday). In modern times the word means one who holds that the Lord's day is to be observed among the Christians in exactly the same manner as the Jews were enjoined to keep the Sabbath; one who holds rigid views of Sabbath observance.
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Sabbathi
To this angel, in the Jewish rabbinical legend of the celestial hierarchies, is assigned the sphere of Saturn. He receives the divine light of the Holy Spirit, and communicates it to the dwellers in his kingdom.
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Sabbatical Year
in Judaism, the name given to every seventh year, during which the Hebrews were not to sow their fields or prune their vineyards (Exod. xxiii. 10, 11; Lev. xxv. 2-7 ; Deut. xv. 1-11; xxxi. 10-13). the name given to any form of doctrine SABELLIANISM , in Church history, which denies a real distinction between the Persons of the Trinity; the same as Patripassianism. Also the doctrine of the adherents of Sabellius (an African presbyter of the 3rd century), if not of Sabellius himself. It resolved the doctrine of the Trinity into three manifestations of God to man, and taught that the same Person was the Holy Ghost when manifesting himself to the Christian Church, and, by parity of reasoning, the Son, is a branch of the Apennines, near the when appeared in Thus Patripassianism was avoided, but the Incarnation, as well as the Trinity, was denied, for the manifestation of God in Christ could differ only in degree, not in kind, from his union with other holy men. Akin to this teaching was that of Marcellus (Bishop of Ancyra in the early part of the 4th century), who made the Logos a mere attribute of God, manifesting itself in the creation, the Incarnation, and the sanctification of Christians.
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Sabianism
SABÆANISM, or TSA- BAISM, a faith which recognized the unity of God, but worshiped angels or intelligences supposed to reside in the stars and guide their motions, whence the lapse, at least on the part of the common people, to the worship of the stars became easy. They had sacrifices and sacred days, and believed in a future state of retribution. They were once numerous in Arabia, Syria, and Mesopotamia, and their sacred books were in Syriac. The early Mohammedans did not rank them with polytheists.
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Sabicu
or SAVICU, a leguminous tree, Lysiloma Sabicu, native of Cuba. It furnishes an exceedingly heavy and hard wood, with a texture as smooth, close, and firm as ivory almost, and of a rich, warm, red color. It is much employed for shipbuilding and cabinet making.
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Sabine
a river of the United States, forming the boundary between Louisiana and Texas. It rises in northeastern Texas, and after a course of some 500 miles flows into the Gulf of Mexico through Sabine Bay. It is too shallow to be of much use for navigation.
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Sabine Crossroads
a place in De Soto parish, La., about 4 miles S. of Mansfield, where, in the Civil War, the Confederate troops under command of Generals E. Kirby Smith, Taylor, Moulton, and Green, defeated the Federal troops under command of Generals Lee, Franklin, Banks, and Ransom. The Union forces lost 10 guns and about 7,000 of their men were taken prisoners.
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Sabine Lake
a body of water formed by an expansion of the Sabine river, on the boundary of Louisiana and Texas, about 5 miles N. of the Gulf of Mexico. It is about 18 miles long, averages about 9 miles in breadth, and has an area of about 150 square miles.
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Sabine Mountains
a range that border of ancient Latium, E. of Rome. Its highest point is about 4,200 feet.
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Sabini
One of the most ancient and powerful of the peoples of Central Italy. The Sabines formed one of the elements of which the Roman people was composed. In the time of Romulus a portion of the Sabines, after the rape of their wives and daughters, became incorporated with the Romans, and the two peoples were united into one under the general name of Quirites. 2026 Editor's Note: The Sabines divided into two populations after Rome's founding, a division that is historical rather than legendary. One group transplanted itself to Rome and became Latinized, while the other remained a mountain tribal state. The independent Sabine population later warred against Rome for independence before being assimilated into the Republic. (Ed: BR 2026-06-19)
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