† ferien.
Obsolete.
1. A festival, holiday. Also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun]
tidea900
holidayc950
massOE
holy-daya1000
mass-dayOE
high tideOE
holy-tidea1035
good tideOE
high dayOE
feastc1200
feast dayc1300
ferie1377
festival day1389
solemnity1390
solennityc1400
feastful day1440
festiala1450
festivala1500
sacre1542
panegyry1641
Magdalene-tide1649
church festival1661
surplice day1663
festa1800
festa day1835
fiesta1844
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of
high tideOE
high dayOE
feast dayc1300
ferie1377
festival day1389
feastful day1440
festivala1500
gaudy-day1567
carnival1598
utas1600
saturnal1605
Saturnalia1639
terminals1656
days of gala1716
fête dayc1759
mirth-day1778
season1791
festa1800
jour de fête1806
fiesta1844
fest1846
Winterval1982
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman 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.
1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. (1567) Feria, the ferrie daies noted and obserued by the cleargie.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Ciiij Sondayes & other feryes.
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Ferie, a holiday.
2. = feria n.
ΘΚΠ
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
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 57 How þe Sabot shulde be turnide fro Satirdaie to þe first ferie.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 81 Þe next fery after the feste of All Halwes.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 151 Þe secunde ffery þt þay be gon to wyrche.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 61 Because it was Sunday, nothing was done. So the day after, which was the second fery, the Archebishop [Becket] was cited to apere.
1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 109 Euerie fourt ferie (called wenesday).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
† feriev.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To keep holiday.
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society > leisure > [verb (intransitive)] > keep or take holiday
playa1387
ferie1496
to make holiday1526
vacant1752
pleasure1827
vacate1836
vacation1896
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) iii. ii. 136/2 Euery daye we be bounde to ferie & to rest from synne.
?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. 115 To abuse the sabbothe..is as mouche as to fery unto god, and work to the deuill.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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