a. and sb. Sc. [ad. L. fēriāt-us, pa. pple. of fēriārī (see FERIE v.), f. fēria.]

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  A.  adj. Of or belonging to a (legal) vacation.

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c. 1450.  Henryson, Tale of Dog, 54.

        The place is fer, the tyme is feriat,
Quhairfoir no iuge suld sit in consistorie.

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1637.  Acts Sed., 29 July. Comprending herein all vacant and feriat tymes.

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1825.  Ld. Cockburn, Mem., ii. 134. He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the Feriat days of periodical festivity, and prolonged the observation, like a hero fighting amidst his fallen friends, as long as he could.

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  B.  sb. Vacation, holiday.

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1727.  Banff Burgh Rec., in Cramond, Ann. Banff (1843), II. 182. The Council allow ‘the Grammer schollars feriot and waccancie from the date heirof to the twentiet ofh Janry. next inclusive.’

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