Middle English Dictionary Entry
fēriāl adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | fēriāl adj. Also ferialle, feriel & (Latinate) ferialis. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ferie weekday.
1.
(a) Pertaining to weekdays (as opposed to Sabbatum); pertaining to an ordinary day (as opposed to a holiday or religious festival); ~ dai; (b) as noun: the portions of scripture used in divine service on weekdays.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)6.293 : Alcuinus..ordeyned here orisouns and office of masse for ferial dayes [L ferias].
- (1428) *Mun.B.Bridgewaterno.14 : For reparyng of þe feryel dayes vestementes..ffor settyng an of ffrontelcloþis & fferyel amys, ijd.
- (1431) Rec.St.Mary at Hill27 : Also iij feriall towayles to wype on handes.
- (1433) *Mun.B.Bridgewaterno.12 : For wesschyng & reparyng of a peyr vestmentes for fferyaldayes..for ye feryal peyre vestmentes.
- (1436) Will York in Sur.Soc.3075 : I be wytt to ye auter..a Missall, a chales,..a feriall vestimentt.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)156 : Feryalle: Ferialis.
- (1462) GRed Bk.Bristolpt.2 p.61 : Hit is ordeyned that Spycer is Halle be hold opyn by all the Feryall daiis of the weeke for all maner merchaunts.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)634/6 : Þe oures of þe day in lente & in ferial daijs to be seide.
- (1460) Doc.Middx.in MELDv2017.1/D4157#9 [Acc.St.Michael Cornhill, fol. 8r] : Jt for ij ropes for the smale ferialle bellis, xj d.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)128/20 : Þe Solempnite of Paske is to be worschipid with thre feriall dayes folowyng. But in the iiiithe daye it is lawefull to men for to tilye.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)23/5 : Somme are more sauory in festiuale days, and somme in feriall.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)105/15 : Exaudi domine, Ipsius pietas, & A uinculis alle wey schullen be seyde in here places & in dayes ferialis, þe one after þe oþer.
b
- (c1384) WBible(1) TL (F&M)683 : Here bigynneth a rule that tellith in whiche chapitris of the bible ȝe mai fynde the lessouns..first ben sett, sondaies and ferials togider, and after that the sanctorum.