Meaning of familiary | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.

obsolete

Examples

“Yet it pleas'd God to make him see all the tyrrany of Rome, by discovering this which they exercis'd over divorce; and to make him the beginner of a reformation to this whole Kingdom by first asserting into his familiary power the right of just divorce.”

“The familiary or hereditary variety of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis is of comparatively recent recognition.”

“In many of these cases the disease appeared in familiary form, affecting three to five members of the family, at ages varying from 13 to 20 years.”

“Because of their doctrine and practice respectively their roots in familiary bonds the Alevi are not problematic in social life or in legal respect.”

“Not to mention the dire effects in somewhat later years of drunkenness in the parent—which expresses itself in the child as it grows up, in the form of epilepsy, idiocy, mania and dipsomania (habitual drunkenness) —it is familiary to us medical practitioners that the children of drunkards are prone to hydrocephalus (water on the brain), convulsions, and a whole tribe of diseases of a low type, showing general degeneracy and a predisposition to brain mischief.”

“I am fairly familiary with the political complexion of the municipal assembly .”

“This question may have a strange sound in these days when the ears of men and women are filled with another and more familiary cry — the cry for rights, the cry for increased opportunities, the cry for more and ever more power — political, social, and economic.”

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