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▪ I. † ˈferie, n. Obs. [a. OF. ferie, ad. L. fēria.] 1. A festival, holiday. Also attrib.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 415 Vch day is haliday with hym or an heigh ferye. 14..Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 85 Thys hee ferye That called is the circunsision. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 821 Sondayes & other feryes. 1548W. Thomas Ital. Gram. (1567), Feria, the ferrie daies noted and obserued by the cleargie. 1616Bullokar, Ferie, a holiday. 2. = feria.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 57 How þe Sabot shulde be turnide fro Satirdaie to þe first ferie. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 81 Þe next fery after the feste of All Halwes. c1420Chron. Vilod. 151 Þe secunde ffery þt þay be gon to wyrche. 1563Grafton Chron. II. 61 Because it was Sunday, nothing was doone. So the day after, which was the second fery, the archebishop [Becket] was cited to apere. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 109 Euerie fourt ferie (called wenesday). ▪ II. † ˈferie, v. Obs. Also 6 fery. [ad. L. fēriārī, f. fēria holiday.] intr. To keep holiday.
1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) iii. ii. 136/2 Euery daye we be bounde to ferie & to rest from synne. 1548Hooper Ten Commandm. 115 To abuse the sabbothe..is as mouche as to fery unto god, and work to the deuill. |