ferialadj.n.
/ˈfɪərɪəl/, /ˈfɛrɪəl/, U.S. /ˈfɛriəl/, /ˈfɪriəl/ A. adj.
1. Pertaining to the days of the week, or to a week-day as distinguished from a festival.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > relating to the days of the week
feriala1387
the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > not special or ordinary
feriala1387
simplec1450
unfeastfula1564
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 293 Alcuinus..ordeyned here orisouns and office of masse for ferial days [L. per ferias].
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi i. xix. 23 Somme are more sauory in festiuale days, and somme in feriall.
1503 tr. Kalendayr Shyppars sig. av The letters feryals of this kalendar.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxiii. f. xxxiv The thirde Feryall daye, in the weke they named wodnesday.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth vii. sig. D.iv Serve god the holy dayes..more dylygentler than to do theyr worke the feryall dayes.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1250/1 The commemmoration of T. Becket..shalbe..omitted and in stead therof the ferial seruice vsed.
1858 F. Faber tr. D. Bartoli & J. P. Maffei Life Xavier 65 In the afternoons of ferial days he visited the prisons.
1882–3 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. 1956 The distinction between the festival and the simpler ferial manner in the Gregorian style of church-music.
2. Pertaining to a holiday.
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society > leisure > [adjective] > relating to or constituting a period of leisure
feriate?a1500
ferialc1500
succisive1619
rope yarn1823
sabbatical1886
recessional1895
sabbatic1905
c1500 Ffor to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 372 In feriall tyme serve chese shraped with sugur.
1549 Banff Council Rec. in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 25 Inhebitis all utheris to sell ony flysche upon feriall or holy day.
1860 J. C. Byrne Undercurrents Overlooked I. 75 Admiral Mackau..ordered that all works in the navy should be suspended on ferial days.
3. Scots Law. ferial day, ferial time: in which the law-courts were closed, and legal process was invalid.
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society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > a or the session of a court > [noun] > day or time when courts closed
ferial day1471
summer vacation1507
yule-girth1569
1471 Act Audit. (1839) 16 The last court..was within feryale tyme.
1478 Act Dom. Conc. (1839) 16/1 Thai gert it [a brief of inquest] be serwit in hervist, quhilk is feriale tyme & forbiddin of the law.
1538 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 396 Every day in the next weeke shalbe feriall, except Fryday and Saterday.
1637 Let. in Biblioth. Regia 140 Since..the rising of his Majesties Council in this ferial time.
4. = feral adj.1
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the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective]
deadlyc893
deathlyOE
deathfula1250
mortalc1390
capitalc1426
exitialc1475
fey1488
mortuala1500
perishinga1500
fatal?1518
ferial1528
mortiferousa1538
deadc1540
exitious?1545
deathlike1548
mortifying1555
starvingc1600
lethal1604
speedingc1604
vital1612
irrecoverable1614
feral1621
lethiferous1651
mortific1651
mortifical1657
daggering1694
exitiose1727
fateful1764
kill-devil1831
unsurvivable1839
lethiferal1848
tachythanatous1860
1528 Impeachm. Wolsey in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 359 Antropose commyth..þe to Areste with hys feryall Mase.
B. n.
A week day not a feast or festival.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > week day > as opposed to market-day, festival-day, or Sunday
feriec1380
weekday1477
weekday1534
low day1566
warday1598
feria1763
everyday1798
ferial1877
1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 84 Sundays as well as Ferials differed in Order, Dignity, and Precedence.
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