feriation
English
Etymology
From Latin feriari (“to keep holiday”), from ferie (“holidays”).
Noun
feriation (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The observation of a holiday; cessation from work.
- Thomas Browne
- And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
- Thomas Browne
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feriation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)