Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to holidays (feriæ), or to public days: specifically, in Scotland, formerly applied to those days on which it was not lawful for courts to be held or any judicial step to be taken.
- Eccles., pertaining to any day of the week which is not appointed for a specific fast or festival.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
feria . - adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to holidays.
- adjective Belonging to any week day, esp. to a day that is neither a festival nor a fast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective ecclesiastical pertaining to an ordinary
weekday , rather than a festival or fast - adjective pertaining to a
holiday
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or being a feria
Etymologies
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Examples
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While readings, antiphons, or responses might be added to the margins of Psalters or incorporated into the text proper during the copying process, creating what was known as a ferial or choral Psalter, the Psalter itself remained the same, no matter who the user was.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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It's also known as ferial time, a time without feasts.
Green Is For the Growing Time Jennifer Gregory Miller 2008
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It's also known as ferial time, a time without feasts.
Archive 2008-06-01 Friar Suppliers 2008
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Today those days are called ferial upon which no feast is celebrated.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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However, the Dominican rite did exclude the use of the dalmatic for penitential times (as well as ferial days generally), thereby having deacon and subdeacon simply wearing the vestments proper to them, minus the outer dalmatic.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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Although, lamentably, the Octave of Pentecost does not exist in the Ordinary Form, there is nothing to prevent the offering of the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (and thus the use of red vestments) on the ferial days after Pentecost Sunday.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave 2009
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Son cifras parecidas the las manejadas por los representantes de Egipto en el recinto ferial de Excel.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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The proper hour for the celebration of the Easter vigil is also traditionally after None, as in all the ferial days of Lent.
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Son cifras parecidas the las manejadas por los representantes de Egipto en el recinto ferial de Excel.
La WTM muestra la transformacin del turismo marcada por la crisis ... admin 2009
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He then sings the embolism “Libera nos” out loud, also in the ferial tone, omitting all of the gestures which normally accompany it.
qms commented on the word ferial
The day of the week’s immaterial
Official, mundane, or ethereal.
You’re sure to be vexed
Without some context
When told the occasion is ferial.
Ferial is one of those words that supports opposite meanings. There are at least three lists that try (more or less strictly) to collect these:
autantonyms, self-antonyms, contranyms.
January 2, 2019