ferial
nounEtymology From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).
1
Ecclesiastical, Lifestyle, Religion A feria.
ferial
adj/ˈfɛɹɪəl/
Etymology From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).
1
Ecclesiastical, Lifestyle, Religion Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.
2
Jovial, festive, as if pertaining to a holiday.
- [They] / Dance within the magic shade / That makes them drunken, merry, and strong / To laugh and sing their ferial song : / ‘Free, free . . . !’1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 289:
- In ferial tone he addressed J. J. O’Molloy: — Taylor had come there, you must know, from a sick bed.1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 136: