Vigil

·vi Later, the day and the night preceding a feast.

II. Vigil ·vi Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.

III. Vigil ·vi A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.

IV. Vigil ·vi Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.

V. Vigil ·vi 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.