单词 | familiary |
释义 | familiaryadj. Now rare. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a family; = familial adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adjective] > relating to a family or household familiar?c1400 family1602 familiarya1617 familic1660 familical1660 familistic1660 familistical1660 familyish1824 a1617 Sir J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 141 Into whose ear I rounded my familiary inward grief, because he said you desired him to require it at me. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 45 It pleas'd God..to make him [sc. Henry VIII] the beginner of a reformation..by first asserting into his familiary power the right of just divorce. 1896 Rev. of Reviews 15 Oct. 323/1 Correct unions, conjugal and familiary, are the rule among birds. 1980 Burlington Mag. Mar. 158/2 A child clings to her skirts for protection, and that theme of familiary compassion threatened by war is repeated in the woman and child on the right. 2. Medicine. = familial adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adjective] > hereditary familial1892 familiary1895 1895 Med. Rec. 21 Dec. 866/1 As in hereditary spinal ataxia the familiary or hereditary element is all that we can find bearing on the occurrence of the disease. 1902 Med. News 31 May 1055/1 The familiary or hereditary type of the disease may be excluded for want of corroborative history; her brothers and sisters being free from any suggestion of similar trouble. 1976 Clinica Chimica Acta 68 227 0.1 and 0.2 ml of plasma were analysed from each of two patients with familiary hypercholesterolemia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1617 |
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