feriation

English

Etymology

From Latin ferior (“to keep holiday”), from feriae (“holidays”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛɹiˈeɪʃən/, /fɪəɹiˈeɪʃən/

Noun

feriation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A holiday or break from work or effort.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     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.

   • Robert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets […] , (Please provide the book title or journal name), Crrech's Lucretius:

     Thus ſleep may properly be defined, a certain feriation of the external ſenſes

References

• “feriation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.