Familiarize
(Fa*mil"iar*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Familiarized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Familiarizing ] [Cf. F.
familiariser.]
1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as,
to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a
book, or a science.
Familiarly
(Fa"mil"iar*ly), adv. In a familiar manner.
Familiarness
(Fa*mil"iar*ness), n. Familiarity. [R.]
Familiary
(Fa*mil"ia*ry) a. [L. familiaris. See Familiar.] Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
[Obs.] Milton.
Familism
(Fam"i*lism) n. The tenets of the Familists. Milton.
Familist
(Fam"i*list) n. [From Family.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in
Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists
wholly in love.
Familistery
(Fam"i*lis*ter*y) n.; pl. Familisteries [F. familistère.] A community in which many persons
unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
Familistic
(Fam`i*listic Fam`i*lis"tic*al) a. Pertaining to Familists. Baxter.
Family
(Fam"i*ly) n.; pl. Families [L. familia, fr. famulus servant; akin to Oscan famel servant, cf.
faamat he dwells, Skr. dhaman house, fr. dhato set, make, do: cf. F. famille. Cf. Do, v. t., Doom,
Fact, Feat.]
1. The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household,
including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
2. The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental
unit in the organization of society.
The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society.
H. Spencer. 3. Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human
family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
Go ! and pretend your family is young.
Pope. 4. Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
5. Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
6. A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the
chlorine family.
7. (Biol.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in
structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or
less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is
often considered the same thing as an order.
