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ferial /ˈfɪərɪəl / /ˈfɛərɪəl/adjective Christian ChurchDenoting an ordinary weekday, as opposed to one appointed for a festival or fast.These are usually referred to as festal responses, ferial responses keeping the chant in the treble and being harmonized in a simple fashion. Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin ferialis, from Latin feria 'holiday'. In late Latin feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to mean 'day of the week' (e.g. secunda feria 'second day, Monday'), but Sunday (Dominicus) and Saturday (Sabbatum) were usually referred to by their names; hence feria came to mean 'ordinary weekday'. Rhymes arterial, bacterial, cereal, criterial, ethereal, funereal, immaterial, imperial, magisterial, managerial, material, ministerial, presbyterial, serial, sidereal, venereal, biomaterial |