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ferial, a. and n.|ˈfɪərɪəl|
[a. Fr. férial, ad. med.L. fēriālis, f. fēria: see prec.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to the days of the week, or to a week-day as distinguished from a festival.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 293 Alcuinus..ordeyned here orisouns and office of masse for ferial days [per ferias]. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xix. 23 Somme are more sauory in festiuale days, and somme in feriall. 1494Fabyan v. lxxxiii. 60 The thirde Feryall daye in the weke they named Wodnesday. 1503Kalender Sheph. (1506) A v, The letters feryals of this Kalender. 1542Boorde Dyetary vii. (1870) 243 Serve God the holy dayes..more dylygentler than to do theyr worke the feryall dayes. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 326 The commemmoration of Thomas Becket..shall be..omitted & instead thereof the ferial service used. 1858Faber Life Xavier 65 In the afternoons of ferial days he visited the prisons. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 1956 The distinction between the festival and the simpler ferial manner in the Gregorian style of church-music.
2. Pertaining to a holiday.
c1500For to serve a Lord vi. in Babees Bk. (1868) 372 In feriall tyme serve chese shraped with sugur. 1549Banff Council Rec. in Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 25 Inhebitis all utheris to sell ony flysche upon feriall or holy day. 1860Mrs. W. P. Byrne Undercurrents Overlooked I. 75 Admiral Mackau..ordered that all works in the navy should be suspended on ferial days.
3. Sc. Law. ferial day, ferial time: in which the law-courts were closed, and legal process was invalid.
1471Act Audit. (1839) 16 The last court..was within feryale tyme. 1478Act Dom. Conc. (1839) 16/1 Thai gert it [a brief of inquest] be serwit in hervist, quhilk is feriale tyme & forbiddin of the law. 1538St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 396 Every day in the next weeke shalbe feriall, except Fryday and Saterday. 1637Let. in Biblioth. Regia 140 Since..the rising of his Majesties Council in this ferial time.
¶4. = feral a.1
1528Impeachm. Wolsey in Furniv. Ball. I. 359 Antropose commyth..þ⊇ to Areste with hys feryall Mase.
B. n. A week day not a feast or festival.
1877J. D. Chambers Divine Worship 84 Sundays as well as Ferials differed in Order, Dignity, and Precedence. |