vi later, the day and the night preceding a feast.
2. vigil ·vi originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast.
3. vigil ·vi a religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast.
4. vigil ·vi hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises.
5. 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.