Obs. [a. OF. ferie, ad. L. fēria.]
1. A festival, holiday. Also attrib.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIII. 415. Vch day is haliday with hym · or an heigh ferye.
14[?]. The Circunsision, in Tundale’s Vis. (1843), 85.
| I con remember me on thys hee ferye | |
| That called is the circunsision. |
1538. Bale, Thre Lawes, 821. Sondayes & other feryes.
1548. W. Thomas, Ital. Gram. (1567), Feria, the ferrie daies noted and obserued by the cleargie.
1616. Bullokar, Ferie, a holiday.
2. = FERIA.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. II. 57. How þe Sabot shulde be turnide fro Satirdaie to be first ferie.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 81. Þe next fery after the feste of All Halwes.
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 151. Þe secunde ffery þt þay be gon to wyrche.
1563. Grafton, Chron., II. 61. Because it was Sunday, nothing was doone. So the day after, which was the second fery, the archebishop [Becket] was cited to apere.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 109. Euerie fourt ferie (called wenesday).
