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feriation

/fɛɹiˈeɪʃən/

feriation noun: a holiday or break from work or effort.

Noun

feriation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A holiday or break from work or effort.
    • 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.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    • Thus ſleep may properly be defined, a certain feriation of the external ſenſesRobert Anderson, The Works of the British Poets […] , (Please provide the book title or journal name), Crrech's Lucretius

Origin of feriation

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

Questions about feriation

What does feriation mean?
Feriation means a holiday or break from work or effort.
What part of speech is feriation?
Feriation is a noun.
How do you pronounce feriation?
Feriation is pronounced /fɛɹiˈeɪʃən/.

Words near feriation in the dictionary

  1. feria
  2. feriae
  3. ferial
  4. ferials
  5. ferias
  6. feriation
  7. feridgi
  8. feridgis
  9. Feridhoo
  10. ferie
  11. feries

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