Middle English Dictionary Entry
fēri(e n.(1)
Entry Info
Forms | fēri(e n.(1) |
Etymology | OF ferie & ML fēria. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Weekday, i.e. any day in the Christian week except Sabbatum = Saturday; first ~, Sunday; second ~ Monday; etc.; [this usage was intended to avoid the traditional pagan names of the days]; (b) an ordinary day (as distinct from a religious festival); (c) heigh ~, holi ~, a holy day, a church festival falling on a weekday.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.81 : Odilio, þe abbot of Cluniacensis..ordeyned þat þe next fery after [Higd.(1): the morowe after] þe feste of All Halwes schulde be hadde þe memorie for dede men soules.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.57 : Jesus hadde wille..how þe Sabot shulde be turnede fro Satirdaie to þe first ferie.
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)11/11 : He chastyd his flesch with fasting, Þe ferth fery and þe sext alway Souked bot ones on al þe day -- Þat es wedynesday and frydai ilka wuke.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)603 : For by-twene þe Assumpsyon & his day hit was þe secunde ffery þat þay be-gone to wyrche And þe kyng..leyd þere þe first stone of þat chyrche.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.56/25 : Thes thynges were i-doo at Oxonforde in seynte Marye church þe thride fferie after þe ffeste of þe translacion of Seynte Benet.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.251 : Seynte Iohn Baptiste was conceyved..the viij kalendes of October, the vthe fery [L feria quinta; Trev.: in a Þorsday].
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) Ctn.(Hrl 2261)432 : Tweyne freres of Minors were brente the thrydde fery in the weeke of Pentecoste.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)101/22,33 : Ȝe schall come to matinis in the vthe and vithe ferye and þe sabbot tide of Paske..In the v ferie whiche is callid the day of absolucion.
b
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)24/211 : Of sodeyne tidinges whiche that ȝe bringe, Mi festes turned in to simple ferie.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)102/12 : Þe v fery..scilicet, Schere þorsday.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)103/15 : Þe schul bowe & sey Pater noster; ȝif it be Fest, stondinge; ȝif hit be Feri, knelinge.
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)105/18 : Þe oþer II schul alle wey be seyde whan þe Gospel is seyde, be it fest, be it feri.
c
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)5.113 : And harlotes holynesse be an hey ferye.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Lev.23.2,4 : These ben the feries [vr. feries, that is halidaies; L feriæ; WB(1): cesynge dayes] of the Lord, whiche ȝe schulen clepe hooli..These ben the hooli feries of the Lord.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)13.415 : Vch day is haliday with hym, or an heigh ferye.
- a1500 Lydg.LOL (Adv 19.3.1)p.85 : I con remember me on thys hee ferye That called is the circunsision.
- a1500 Lydg.LOL (Adv 19.3.1)p.134 : In this hee ferye That named is the Purificacion.