Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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†FERIAT, adj., n. Also feriot.
I. adj. Pertaining to vacation, holiday, used esp. in Sc. law to denote days or periods in which no legal proceedings can be taken (Sc. 1880 H. Barclay Digest Law Scot. 393).Sc. 1825 Lord Cockburn Memorials (1856) 134:
He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the Feriat days of periodical festivity.
II. n. A holiday, vacation, a dies non.Sc. 1702 Fountainhall Decisions I I. 170:
This citation being in April, neither the session nor commissary-court were then sitting, but it was close feriat.Bnff. 1727 in W. Cramond Annals Bnff. II. 182:
The Council allow the Grammar schollars feriot and waccancie from the date heirof.
