ferial
Britishadjective
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of or relating to a feria
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rare of or relating to a holiday
Example Sentences
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The calendar noted ferial and ember days, fish days and the feastdays of saints.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
In the ferial office nine psalms are said, and not twelve, as in the old order of the Breviary.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
As a result the offices of Sunday and the ferial offices were practically crushed out of the Breviary.
From The Divine Office by Quigley, Edward J.
To him a jug of train-oil were as angel-food, a keg of stale soap-grease a ferial feast.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
This day of roundabouts and swings, Struck weights, shied cocoa-nuts, tossed rings, Switchbacks, Aunt Sallies, and all such small High jinks—you call it ferial?
From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous
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