feriation

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/fɛɹiˈeɪʃən//fɪəɹiˈeɪʃən/

noun

A holiday or break from work or effort.

OriginLatin ferior →
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Meanings

nounferiation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableA holiday or break from work or effort.

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

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

Origin

  1. Latinferior“to keep holiday”
  2. Englishferiation

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

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APA

feriation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feriation

MLA

“feriation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feriation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “feriation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feriation.

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