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Webster 1913 Edition


Ferial

Fe′ri-al

,
Noun.
Same as
Feria
.

Fe′ri-al

,
Adj.
[LL.
ferialis
, fr. L.
ferie
holidays: cf. F.
férial
. See 5th
Fair
.]
1.
Of or pertaining to holidays.
[Obs.]
J. Gregory.
2.
Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ferial

FE'RIAL

,
Adj.
[L. ferialis.] Pertaining to holidays, or to common days.

Definition 2024


ferial

ferial

English

Adjective

ferial (not comparable)

  1. (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
  2. Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      In a ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: —Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.
    • 1922, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, page 274:
      [They] dance within the magic shade
      That makes them drunken, merry, and strong
      To laugh and sing their ferial song :
      'Free, free . . . !'

Translations

Noun

ferial (plural ferials)

  1. (ecclesiastical) A feria.

Anagrams


Old French

Adjective

ferial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular feriale)

  1. ferial (pertaining to a holiday)

Spanish

Adjective

ferial m, f (plural feriales)

  1. ferial, on a weekday