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Webster 1913 Edition
Ferial
Webster 1828 Edition
Ferial
FE'RIAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
ferial
ferial
English
Adjective
ferial (not comparable)
- (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
- 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 . . . !'
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Translations
pertaining to an ordinary weekday
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festive — see festive
Noun
ferial (plural ferials)
- (ecclesiastical) A feria.