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familyn.adj. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French famille; Latin familia. Etymology: < (i) Middle French famile, Middle French, French famille servants (13th cent. in Old French as famelie ), group of people living under the same roof, household (1337), group of people related by blood, lineage (1442–4), retinue of an important person (1461–6), group of people related by blood or marriage and living under the same roof (1580), group of people who share a common philosophy (1658), group of genera of plants or animals which share certain general traits (1676), and (ii) its etymon classical Latin familia household, household servants, troop (of gladiators), personal servants, retinue, group of persons connected by blood or affinity, school (of philosophy), estate < famulus servant (see famulus n.) + -ia -y suffix3.Forms in other Romance languages. Compare Old Occitan familha , Catalan família (1433), Spanish familia (13th cent.), Portuguese familia (13th cent.), Italian famiglia (end of the 13th cent.). Forms in Germanic languages. The Latin word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages: compare Middle Dutch familie (2nd half of the 14th cent.; Dutch familie ), Middle Low German famīlie (mid 15th cent.), German Familie (15th cent.), Swedish familj (end of the 16th cent.; probably immediately < German or Danish), Danish familie (c1500). Development of specific senses. In Family of Love at sense A. 5 after Middle Low German Husgesinne der Lieften (1573 or earlier in the work of Hendrik Niclaes). Originally Scottish. A. n. I. Senses relating to a group of people or animals. 1. society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > servants collectively > of a family or household 1388 in W. Fraser (1885) III. 33 S[ch]o sal haf fre issov and leif to pass at hir will, and hir mene, hir famyl, with al thair gvdys. c1430 (1844) I. 69/2 Gif he be his lege man..or wonnand on his lande or of his famel. ?1483 W. Caxton tr. i. sig. aviiv Thou oughtest to haue the cure and the gouernement of thy famylle or seruauntes. 1591 (?a1425) Blind Chelidonian (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill (1974) I. 231 You are my disciples and of my familie. a1629 C. Cornwallis (1641) 9 His family..consisted of few lesse then five hundred. 1707 H. Sloane I. 46 The proprietor keeps a large family for its defence. 1722 D. Defoe 10 I was a single Man..but I had a Family of Servants. 1794 W. Godwin I. vi. 107 Mr. Tyrrel..proposed..to take him into his family, and make him whipper-in to his hounds. 1889 R. F. Clarke ii. i. 251 A prosperous man gradually increases his family of slaves. 2000 J. Burnett viii. 186 Once farmers had lived with their family of servants, providing friendship and moral leadership. society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > collective or retinue society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > Indian > staff of an official society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > staff officer > staff of officers 1438 in W. Fraser (1874) II. 69 That the forsayd Alexander sall find his dochter for fyff yher with the repayr off hyr husband and hys famil that is to say sex hors. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan iii. xix. sig. Oiij In the sauegarde that the kinge gyueth to hys offyciers be comprysed theyre seruauntes and all theyre famylle or meyne. 1548 f. clxxjv The Kyng, the Quene with all their familie, shortly folowed. 1609 J. Skene tr. 45 Na Prelat, Erle, nor Barron..sal ryde with ane greater familie (number) of men and hors. 1678 12 Dec. sig. B In Case any person or persons of the Popish Religion..shall pretend to have Licence for the keeping or carrying of any Armes, for himself or any number of Persons of his Family or Retinue. a1765 F. Blomefield & C. Parkin (1769) III. 796 Sir John de Walpole,..had letters of protection, being in the family or retinue of that king. 1773 28 Jan. 151/1 I recollect, that at my leaving the country, the Nabob sent 3,000 l. for me, and 3,000 l. among the officers of my family. 1808 M. Elphinstone Let. 5 Sept. in T. E. Colebrooke (1884) I. 185 Mr. Seton..waived his right to nominate my family. 1907 22 455 On February 11 he [sc. General Burgoyne] wrote to Congress asking for a parole for himself and the officers of his family, because of poor health. 1914 130 They proposed to appoint the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Comptroller of the Currency... Three members of the President's family..should not be in control of that board. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > gladiatorial combat > [noun] > gladiator > collective or group 1700 P. Danet There were many Families [Fr. familles] of these Gladiators. 1709 J. Rowe tr. Sallust 27 All the Families of the Gladiators [L. gladiatoriae familiae] were order'd to be sent away, and dispers'd in Capua. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville I. 62 You look as if you belonged to the family yourself. 1889 J. S. Verschoyle iii. xii. 259 A troop or family of gladiators began the revolt at Capua in Campania. 1913 A. B. Gough tr. L. Friedländer IV. xxix. 179 The velarii who drew up and pulled to the awning of the amphitheatre may also have belonged to the gladiatorial ‘families’. 1998 D. G. Kyle iii. 83 Cicero sarcastically refers to a family of gladiators as impressive, noble, and magnificent. 2. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > household 1452 in (2007) 1452/6 That nane halde wittall mayr than will serf him self and his famyle for a quartir of a yer. 1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua i. iii. f. 12v Of onely one howse, and of the fyrste oeconomye or domestycall famylye. 1545 G. Joye (iv.) f. 48 I Nebucadnezar, happye and prosperouse in my familie. 1574 J. Whitgift 162 In a family the master is above the servant. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner (1886) 44 His family were himself and his wife and daughters, two mayds, and a man. 1680 10 Sept. 1 Mr. King and all his Family (except his Maid-servant, by name Joan Elge) was gone to Church. a1729 S. Clarke (1730) II. iii. 51 Representing..all Orders of intelligent Beings, as the Family of God. 1794 A. Radcliffe I. ii. 53 I am going to prayers with my family. 1824 23 Oct. 302/2 The winter came on; the family moved to the first floor as usual. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve ii. 10 The difference between people who live in Society and people who live in the family. 1939 W. L. Morgan 12 No childless families were included in the original study. Some of the families, however, had only adopted or step-children. 1987 D. A. Baptiste in F. W. Bozett vii. 120 Many gays/lesbians..tend not to tell their ex-spouses..that they and the children may be living as a family with a same-sex partner. 2000 4 Nov. 5/3 Although most homes were due to be reconnected yesterday, many families will remain without electricity today. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] 1484 W. Caxton tr. iii. xi. f. lxv A fader of famylle, whiche had a sone the whiche dyd no thynge that he oughte to haue done. 1541 T. Elyot xxxvii. f. 90 The father..doth abdicate nowe and then oone, that is to saye, putteth theym out of his familye. 1667 J. Milton x. 216 As Father of his Familie he clad Thir nakedness. View more context for this quotation 1685 J. Crowne i. 6 We are the most reserv'd Family in the World. There were Fourteen Sisters of us, and not one of us married. 1715 11 May 4 He had conceal'd his right Name..to the disgrace of his Family, part of which were here, part in Holland, and all of them good and honest laborious People. 1799 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre (ed. 2) III. 589 We pass..through the love of our family..to love Mankind. 1829 J. Mill II. xxi. 176 The Group, which consists of a Father, Mother, and Children, is called a Family. 1861 20 177/1 A whole family of sparrows, consisting of father, mother, and four young ones. 1918 H. K. Webster xxxiii. 416 You know the Corbett family well enough..to understand how this unexpected denouement of the tragedy affected them. 1950 A. H. Gross tr. I. B. Singer (title) The Family Moskat. 2001 6 Apr. (Friday Review section) 10/4 Long-distance phone calls were almost a vulgarity, save for the occasion of reporting a birth or death in the family. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring ?1552 V. Leigh sig. C.iv He gathered together, in that state of life, In age to kepe him, his famelie and wife. 1609 J. Skene tr. 25 Her husband sall intromit therewith [sc. with his wife's dowry], for sustentation of his wife and familie. 1664 Churchwardens' Accts.: Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire in B. Cusack (1998) 85 I Iohn Manning of the parish hath ereckted And bilded Won seat vpon his own Cost And Charg for his wife and famely. 1712 J. Addison No. 488. ¶2 A large Family of Daughters have drawn me up a very handsome Remonstrance. 1733 A. Pope 19 Seldom at Church..But duly sent his family and wife. 1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 10 May in (1993) 74 She was a great proprietor of land, but as is usual here, most of it went to portion off a large family of daughters. 1891 A. Conan Doyle Red-headed League in Aug. 192/2 I am a widower, and never had any family. 1905 4 175 I saw the one bird feeding its family, and it continued to do so until they were fledged. 1914 Jan. 126/2 My family are all grown up and gone, married and doing for themselves. 1987 J. Epstein 242 There were higher things in life than getting a god job, earning a living, raising a family, and getting on. 2007 Mar. 19 A fellow who was the only child left from a family of eight. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] > blood-relations 1798 14 July 324/1 ‘Why into the country? Have you family? Kindred? Friends?’ ‘No,’ answered I, ‘I have neither.’ 1850 H. Martineau in Aug. 89/1 All of us who can leave home go..to visit family and friends. 1894 M. P. Krekel Let. 17 Jan. in (1895) June 106 It was the second evening of my stay with family. 1929 19 91 Six years only if person has family in Panama and 3 years only if married to a Panaman. 1985 J. E. Smith iii. 104 At times they [sc. neighbors] went beyond even the traditional role of kin by providing room and board for those without family. 2008 J. Murray 249 I try not to show how much this hurts me, but point out that..he has family who love him and want to care for him. 3. a. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] 1474 W. Caxton tr. (1883) ii. v. 65 He wold that the office shold not all way reste in the familye and hows of the fabyans. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) viii. l. 708 Amange his kyn and his famylle. a1525 (a1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 2563 in C. Horstmann (1882) II. 294 He, callit Cynaras, Was famile to Acastrus kinge. 1581 J. Marbeck 708 Plinie affirmeth also, that..ther was a Famuly that would go vpon a great fire, & not be touched therewith. 1595 W. Shakespeare i. i. 65 Let vs assaile the familie of Yorke. 1662 E. Stillingfleet ii. ii. §9 He..married into that branch of the family that was remaining there. 1671 J. Milton iii. 168 By strong hand his [sc. Maccabeus'] Family obtain'd..the Crown. View more context for this quotation 1734 A. Pope 203 Go! and pretend your Family is young. 1797 I. 121 A title which had been hereditary in his family for many generations. 1804 J. Grahame 75 Every great merchant and money-dealer wishes to be the founder of what is called a family. 1870 E. A. Freeman (ed. 2) II. ix. 360 The abbey of Coventry..still kept in the family. 1877 R. M. Smith xiii. 116/1 The second, third, fourth and fifth of the ‘male lines’ of the Burlington Smith family. 1931 H. L. Mencken 24 Mar. (1989) 19 It will recount the history of three generations of an American family. 2011 S. P. Dowdney 154 This recipe has been in the family for 150 years. society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [adjective] > of descent or breeding society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [adjective] > having specific kind of ancestors > of noble descent a1639 H. Wotton (1641) 11 Their Cavalry not a Troop of Biscoigners mounted in hast, but the greater part Gentlemen of Family, and of pickt Resolution. 1753 S. Richardson IV. xviii. 141 The governesses or matrons of the society I would have to be women of family. 1763 H. Walpole III. i. 19 He..married a beautiful English-woman of family. 1842 T. Moule ix. 190 Printing was then practised by many who were of noble family. 1870 L. Oliphant ii. 46 The Church..compared with other professions..holds out no inducements for young men of family. 1914 E. von Arnim xxviii. 344 People of family were painted in order to hand down their portrait to succeeding generations. 1961 D. Jenkins viii. 151 Those prestige-conferring occupations which used to be reserved for those ‘of good family’. 2011 M. A. Woodworth ii. 66 Compton Delvile, the man of family, represents the corrupt oligarchy that landed authority has become. society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adverb] 1646 T. Lushington vii. 117 Melchisedeck therefore is said to be without father and mother, not that hee had no father or mother; but because neither his father nor mother are declared or mentioned in the annalls of the Scripture. For even among prophane Writers they whose pedigree and parentage was unknowne, were said to be of no family.] 1705 M. Bladen tr. Aulus Hirtius Comm. African War xiii, in tr. Caesar 329 Juba, not contented to have put this Affront upon M. Aquinius, a Man of no Family,..gave Scipio a greater; who was nobly born. 1775 Jan. 33/2 I know nothing of her family, but I conclude she is of no family at all, from her behaviour. 1821 J. Bentham 146 People of no ‘family’. 1869 J. Payn xli. 121/1 The whole Curlew Hall estate, which was purchased by a commercial person of no family. 1952 M. Kennedy 56 A young man so gifted may hold his own very well, even though he is poor and of no family. 2009 P. Gregory 52 No King of England would marry an Englishwoman of no family and no fortune. the world > people > ethnicities > [noun] > regarded as of common stock a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) ix. vii. 200 Quhil the famyl and ofspring of Enee The stane immovabill of the Capitolie Inhabitis. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil i. 7 You to me ful promist..That Roman famely should spring from the auncetrye Troian. 1700 B. Lindley ii. v. 47 The most Accursed and Infamous Family upon Earth; that of Ham's. 1754 M. Browne 22 Cain and his Descendants..were the elder Children of the Almighty, long before the Jewish Family and Nation were established. 1842 J. C. Prichard 468 The Tamanacs, who belong to the same family, live on the right bank of the Orinoco. 1848 T. B. Macaulay (ed. 5) I. i. 18 By the mixture of three branches of the great Teutonic family with each other. 1891 26 Sept. 268/2 I believe Picts and Iberians to have belonged to one and the same family, which I have ventured to call Ibero-Pictish. 1931 E. A. Powell xvii. 213 The main difference between the eastern and western branches of the Yugoslav family is, however, a cultural one. 1999 C. Kidd (2004) ix. 212 The achievements of this extended Nordic family..were set against the foil of Europe's less fortunate racial stocks. society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > united by religious or political ties society > society and the community > [noun] > a community a1513 H. Bradshaw (c1525) f. 17 Her example was better, than a commaundement Unto her subgettes, within the monastery..By her fact and dede, she gaue examplary Unto her subgettes, and all the famyle. 1549 sig. G.ij To bee the Messengers, the Watchemen, the Pastors, and Stewardes of the lorde, to teache, to premonishe, to feede, and prouide for the Lordes familie. 1611 T. Coryate sig. Zz3v Ignatius Loyola..that Spanish soldier and first founder of the Jesuiticall family. 1653 in tr. S. Przypkowski Publisher to Rdr. sig. A3 Of all the Families and Societies of Christians, they are most hated. 1771 T. James II. iii. iii. 213 Various kingdoms were erected from lands and cities, taken from the Saracens, which were united into one family under the elder Sancho. 1794 R. B. Sheridan (new ed.) ii. 40 The beggars are a very ancient family in most kingdoms. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre I. i. 114 The members of the vast family of Mankind. 1828 E. Everett in I. (at cited word) The States of Europe were, by the prevailing maxims of its policy, closely united in one family. 1875 H. E. Manning ix. 253 They [the apostles] subdued the..Greeks..the..Romans, and our..forefathers into one family. 1909 5 June 17/3 The so-called vaudeville ‘families’, acrobatic teams, are recruited from many sources. 2010 26 July a1/2 She's the first of her six siblings to enter a horse into a competition. But she's joined a larger family of teens and kids like her, who love to trot, pole bend and barrel race. society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > familism > [noun] > person > collective ?1574 C. Vitell tr. ‘Elidad’ sig. A5v The principall Elders and Fathers in the Famelie of Loue: which also shall vnderstand the Secreat-misterie of the Woorde and of the heauenlie Kingdom. 1579 W. Wilkinson f. 79v When they shall here any of the Familie slide into any of these affirmations. 1645 E. Pagitt 75 The familie of love are so called, because..their love is so great, that they may joyn with any congregation. a1687 H. More (1713) Schol. 568 Being lately informed by an Elder of the Family..that they of their Family that were regenerated..became Christs. 1710 J. Strype ii. v. 197 Hearing what the Bishop of Chichester could object against him [sc. the Archbishop], judged it nothing in effect, but only his Suspicion of this Mans being of that Family. 1790 G. Gregory II. xvi. iv. 329 The Familists, or family of love in Holland, considered the dispensation by Christ as imperfect. 1885 R. W. Dixon III. 472 The rising Davidians, Davists, Georgists, or Family of Love, which..gave trouble in the reign of Elizabeth. 1912 C. Burrage I. viii. 210 The Family of Love was certainly well known in England as an existing society during the reigns of James I and Charles I. 1994 C. W. Marsh 138 Other protestant militants probably continued to despise the Family with venom. 6. the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > thieves collectively 1712 S. Centlivre iii. 26 Suppose now I should be catch'd by some of the Family—and have my Nose cut off. 1819 J. H. Vaux I. xii. 142 He had quitted his father's house about a year before I first knew him, and associating with ‘family people’, had since supported himself by depredation. 1834 W. H. Ainsworth II. v. 340 No dummerar, or romany; No member of ‘the family’. 1838 W. N. Glascock II. 100 This house..was a favourite resort of the Family. society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > criminal gang > local unit of Mafia 1954 S. Feder & J. F. Joesten ii. 50 ‘There's trouble in the family,’ he was informed by these delegates. To Mafiosi, it was never ‘the club’ or ‘our mob’ or anything but ‘the family’. 1970 ‘J. Morris’ xiv. 166 I think Mr. Vestucci represents certain family interests in Candywine. 1984 29 Oct. 5/2 His execution had been decided by the ‘Commission’ composed of the local heads of Mafia families. 2002 D. A. Vise v. 53 He had been given the contract to kill the son of a rival mobster and was being considered for membership in the family. II. Senses relating to things. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy ii. i. 69 Naturall thinges are made of elements, and a familie [Fr. maison] of thinges differing in sundry respects. 1626 F. Bacon §354. 95 There bee two Great Families of Things;..Sulphureous and Mercuriall. 1731 A. Pope 9 With all the mournful Family of Yews. 1785 W. Cowper ii. 667 The family of plagues That waste our vitals;—peculation, sale Of honour, perjury, corruption, frauds. 1822 M. Stuart tr. C. D. Beck in 118 Those versions, which from comparison are found to belong to the same family of manuscripts. 1875 C. D. E. Fortnum viii. 65 Persian, Damascus, Rhodian, and Lindus wares, composing a large family. 1900 R. F. Foster p. xi Bridge belongs to the whist family of games. 1989 P. van der Merwe (1992) viii. 62 Northern English clog dancing and modern tap dancing are members of the same family. 2000 S. C. Nelson 132/1 Only colors from the yellow color family have been used here. 8. 1640 J. Parkinson ii. iv. 161 This wilde Cowcumber (as well as the former wilde or bitter Gourde, differing from all the rest of their families) is fit to be entreated of apart by it selfe. 1672 (Royal Soc.) 7 4027 This Specimen..first assigneth very succinctly to the Vmbelliferous Plants that common Character, wherein they all agree amongst themselves, and are differenced from all other families. 1694 W. Wotton xxi. 256 The great Work already begun by Cæsalpinus and Columna, was still imperfect... This was, to digest every Species of Plants under such and such Families and Tribes. 1753 Suppl. (at cited word) The bream and the herring, though very different in genus, may yet be brought into the same Family. 1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. II. 497 G[lycene] monoica (one-house) is singular in this family, on account of its sex. 1827 W. Swainson in 1 187 By bringing the Heliconidæ back to the Nymphalidæ, the five groups (which I shall denominate families) will be united every way, and form a circle. 1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur vii. 244 Rest-harrow,..of the family Leguminosæ. 1881 St. G. Mivart in No. 615. 337 The order Lacertilia is made up of a certain number of large groups, each of which is called a family, which family is again composed of genera. 1916 B. D. Jackson (ed. 3) 143/2 Family..a group of genera, formerly styled Order. 1951 G. H. M. Lawrence iv. 46 An order of plants is composed of one or more families... The family usually represents a more natural unit than any of the higher categories. 2005 (Midwest ed.) 13 Oct. i. 3/1 The fossil buitreraptor..proves that a family of small, swift dinosaurs called dromaeosaurs evolved tens of millions of years earlier than previously believed. 1907 F. E. Clements xii. 240 The conversion of a family into a community takes place usually through the invasion of mobile species. 1916 F. E. Clements iv. 63 Even in the fall of seeds there is often some movement away from the parent plant, but it can not properly be regarded as migration, unless the seed is carried into a different family or a different portion of the same colony or clan. 1960 N. Polunin xi. 334 The seral equivalent is the family, derived from the multiplication and gregarious growth of a single immigrant. 9. the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > kingdom or sub-kingdom 1651 T. Vaughan 54 This truth appears in the Animal Familie, where we know well enough the Sperms are moyst: indeed in Vegetables the Seeds are Drie. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis iii. 10 Things of Nature are said to Ferment in a threefold Family, of Minerals, Vegetables and Animals. 1703 tr. M. Ettmüller (ed. 2) Introd. 18 In the Mineral Family, Antimony and Vitriol are the two noted Emetics. 1766 J. Grosman iv. 48 The kingdom, or family of minerals, is in all appearance distinguished from the animal and vegetable; tho' internally they are the same. 1830 Feb. 27/1 Hence the fecundity of new cleared lands, where this food of the vegetable family has been accumulating for ages. 1895 July 340 Many children at least are at first put out by quite harmless members of the animal family. 1920 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 1167. 36 The pregnant mother, whether of the human or of the animal family, should be an object of the utmost solicitude. 2012 (Nexis) 12 Sept. 39 No member of the vegetable family has had the international impact of the chilli. the world > the earth > minerals > [noun] > a mineral > group or set 1794 R. Kirwan (ed. 2) I. 48 Species are further divisible..into families, or classes and families; sometimes it is necessary to form distinctions where specific characters are not decided; in which case I distribute the classes into tribes and families. 1815 R. Bakewell (ed. 2) Notes 457 The classification of simple minerals into families. 1870 90/1 Diallage, a mineral of the augite family, which occurs largely in some metamorphic districts. 1969 A. Montgomery 71 The formation of fine crystals of epidote-family minerals at the Keystone quarry..is a similar process. 2010 H. L. Levin (ed. 9) iv. 55/1 Just as hornblende is only one member of a family of minerals called amphiboles, augite is an important member of the pyroxene family. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > group of related rocks 1819 J. Macculloch I. 225 I shall therefore proceed to such an arrangement of the individuals of this family as my present state of information admits. Before enumerating the several rocks here united under the general term of gneiss, it is however proper to say [etc.]. 1888 1 374 Rosenbusch divides the palæo-volcanic rocks into five general divisions, or families. 1914 R. A. Daly 40 Each clan is composed of families, distinguished less by chemical composition than by mode of field occurrence, by mineralogical composition, or by rock structure. 1937 A. Johannsen III. 291 Those rocks of the basalt family which, in texture, stand between the dense basalts and the coarse dolerites. 2005 W. Andrefsky (ed. 2) 48 There are three primary families of igneous rocks, each named after the phaneritic member of the family—granite, diorite, and gabbro. 2010 H. L. Levin (ed. 9) iii. 38/2 Of the three major families of rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary), the igneous clan is by far the best for isotopic dating. the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > other 1705 H. Ditton 127 Tis evident from these several Cases, that the common Center of Gravity describes a Conick Section of the same Family with that which the Bodies themselves describe. 1748 J. Kirkby 114 All those Finite Curves are said to belong to the same Family, whose Equations follow the same Form, i.e. have the same correspondent variable and invariable Terms under the same Signs, with no other Difference than in the Dimensions of those Terms. 1846 W. Walton iv. 73 All this family of equations possesses one common partial differential equation. 1862 G. Salmon (1874) §448 Surfaces generated by lines parallel to a fixed plane. This is a family of surfaces which includes conoids as a particular case. 1914 75 281 Every measurable function is monotone increasing with respect to some continuous family of sets. 1959 E. M. Patterson (ed. 2) iv. 70 A continuous deformation of α into β by means of the family of paths αv. 2004 D. Pugh viii. 185 The family of curves used for fitting and extrapolating to very low probability events is known as the generalised extreme value (GEV) distribution. 2005 407 242 In this note we study the concepts of generalized spectral subradius and joint spectral subradius of a family of matrices. the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages 1762 J. Priestley viii. 117 The Eastern tongues of that genus, or family as we may call it. 1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun I. 570 The stock or family of the languages of Eastern Asia. 1875 W. D. Whitney xii. 228 We have called a certain body of languages a family, the Indo-European. 1907 F. W. Hodge I. 964 The Mutsun dialect being better known..the name came to be used for the linguistic family of which it formed part. 1956 J. Whatmough 28 In the north, Samoyede, a member of the same family as the Finnish dialects. 2004 9 Jan. 12/1 The Celtic languages are part of the Indo-European family. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > [noun] > collectively 1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. i. 10 His barbiton, as the learned Mersennus teaches us to call all the varieties of the great viol family. 1879 G. Grove I. 259/2 Bombardon..or Brummer, were originally names of the deeper varieties of the oboe or bassoon family. 1901 W. J. Henderson 19 Next in importance to the strings is the wood-wind, which is divided into three families—flutes, oboes, and clarinets. 1938 831/1 Both [saxhorn and flügelhorn] are families of brass instruments with cup-shaped mouthpieces (like trumpets, trombones, and genuine tubas). 1959 9 Apr. 647/2 His writing for the brass family as a whole is outstanding. 1985 Oct. 72 The Antwerp makers at about this time appear to have developed families of harpsichords, spinetten and muselaaren, similar to the new family of lutes. 2012 (Nexis) 17 June 1 Since her dad was a music teacher, he brought home the whole woodwind family for Davidson to sample. B. adj. ( attributive). society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [adjective] > household society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adjective] > relating to a family or household 1602 W. Fulbecke 47 Such familie-seruantes or retinue as to be agreeable..to his dignitie. a1629 W. Hinde (1641) 66 This Gentleman knew right well, that family exercises were the very goads and spurs unto godlinesse. 1685 R. Baxter Matt. vi. 5 Publick Church Prayer, and Family-Prayer are as great duties as secret Prayer. 1779 B. Dominiceti ix. 13 The family baker acquainted his father and wife with several cures that I had performed. 1801 M. Edgeworth I. xii. 370 She was in hopes that these terrible family quarrels might be made up. 1845 82 407 The development of domestic feelings and family life. 1901 C. Morris xv. 203 A short time after that, she sat one evening in Mr. Ellster's family box. 1937 M. Borden x. 188 She was new to the house, if not to family rows. 1995 Jan. 27/1 He adds, a little less insouciantly, ‘when I burn out I take a holiday,’ usually at a family cottage on Lake of the Woods. 2007 May 218/3 The reason for our return trip was to attend an annual family reunion. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [adjective] 1646 G. Buck iii. 94 Hee was forc't..to accuse Himselfe by a forc't Recantation of his Family Name, and Royall Parentage. 1677 A. Behn iii. ii. 40 A bunch of Diamond Rings! and one with the Family Arms! a1716 W. Wycherley Ess. against Pride & Ambit. in (1728) I. i. 72 As if Nobility consisted alone in being intitled to an Escutcheon, and having the Family-Plate grav'd with a Coat of Arms. 1773 W. Melmoth Remarks in tr. Cicero 171 Securing to the heir..a sufficient part of the family-estate to support his rank and station. 1803 T. Beddoes III. x. 59 A family disposition to insanity. 1818 200 Sometimes accidental causes, produce what has been termed a family toe, partly in consequence of its being hereditary. 1967 N. Fitzgerald i. 6 You have the family face at its best. 2007 July 21/2 Family heirlooms exist in a surprising number of guises. 3. society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [adjective] > inoffensive to decency society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > modesty or decency > [adjective] > inoffensive to decency > suitable for all the family 1695 W. Salmon (title) The family-dictionary; or, houshold companion. 1741 (title) The family magazine. 1782 in (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 650 Heres your nice Family Amusement for Winter Evenings! 1807 (title) The family Shakespeare. 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin I. viii. 154 The family tickets gave admission to four persons at half price. 1960 J. B. Priestley vii. 76 A Restoration comedy.., without the impudent indecencies, and so entirely suitable for family entertainment. 1992 281/1 Family restaurant. Reasonable prices, full meals & children's menu. 2002 Mar. 34/2 Unlike the sanitised versions made for family viewing on TV, the real Dickens is so strange, with a lot of violence, strangeness, queerness. 2011 22 Jan. a13/1 The ‘I’ stands for Illinois, and the ‘F’ and ‘B’ stand for words not fit for a family newspaper. ?1789 J. Hodson 42 Dr Hodson's family elixir... Sold in bottles at 5s. 5d. each, or in large family bottles with glass stoppers. 1819 16 May 1/1 (advt.) Dr. James's Analeptic Pills, six in a family box, 24s. 1865 G. A. Sala (ed. 2) II. x. 253 The apothecary..jobbed off a ‘family box’ of spoilt seidlitz powders on a stranger. 1919 Nov. p. xvi/1 (advt.) Mackintosh's Toffee-de-Luxe is sold loose by weight and in 4-lb. family tins by Confectioners everywhere. 1962 4 May 597/1 Larger blocks of ice cream—family bricks, in Wall's terminology. 1985 23 Sept. 40/1 We picked up a family bucket of fried chicken on the way. 2006 (Midwest ed.) 30 May ii. 2/2 Could you swing by Costco and pick up a gross of goldfish crackers and the family pack of paper towels? 1784 A. Wight III: Pt. i. 351 Mr Dundas is now withdrawing from extensive improvements, to confine himself to a family farm. 1859 J. G. Bertram (ed. 2) xvii. 138 The family concern has been disrupted from some particular cause, such as the death of one of the firm, or the desertion of one or two of the daughters. 1888 7 Jan. 14/2 A family company, whatever the expression means, does not limit its trading to the family circle. If it takes the benefit of the Act, it is bound by the Act as much as any other company. 1898 Aug. 387/1 An ancient family business of international usury. 1931 28 Jan. 20/4 The Fried. Krupp A.G. at Essen, which is a purely family enterprise. 1974 12 Sept. 45/6 Family farms have been proved to more efficient—that is, to produce more output per acre—than corporate farms. 2006 K. W. Bender ii. 36 This tradition-steeped family company is one of the oldest private printers of banknotes in the world. 1821 17 Nov. 1/3 The advertiser..wishes for a situation as assistant, or to undertake the management of a concern: he is well acquainted both with the export and family trade. 1862 6 Dec. 750/2 Alexander Robb, family and export biscuit baker and confectioner. 1864 June 575/1 Choice shipping and family brands [of flour]. 1908 July The Metropolitan Meat Co. Shipping and family butchers and navy contractors. 1920 F. Brett-Young & E. Brett-Young xii. 117 God bli'me me, guv'nor, d'you take me for a family butcher? 1958 61 378/1 It does not make much difference which way you interpret the term ‘family butcher’—as an old-established butchery business run by a family.., or as a business with a delivery-round to households. 1983 M. J. Winstanley 113 Smith also advertised himself as provision merchant, wholesale and family grocer, coffee roaster, [etc.]. 1986 S. Themerson x. 91 Her first customer was the local family butcher's wife. Phrases P1. 1605 J. Radford 285 As the holie Prophet foretolde, saying, All the families of nations shoulde worshippe in his sight. 1785 Aug. 124 Commerce..connects the most distant quarters of the globe, and forms one harmonious family of nations. 1840 G. Bancroft III. xxii. 249 The whole country south-east, south, and west of the Cherokees..was in the possession of one great family of nations, of which the language was named by the French the Mobilian. 1906 T. Hodgkin vi. 80 They all belonged to the great Low German family of nations, to which the Goths probably belonged. 2010 H. Majd 171 He also suggested that Iran would have to behave according to Western standards..before it could take its rightful place among the family of nations. P2. a. 1652 G. Winstanley iv. 40 The Rule of right Government being thus observed, may make a whole Land, nay the whole Fabrick of the Earth, to become one family of Mankind, and one well governed Commonwealth. 1790 Aug. 62/2 He created man in the image of himself,..he is the great Father of the family of mankind. 1845 July 301 It [sc. the Bible] is now accessible to about three-fifths of the family of mankind. 1908 Feb. 364 What higher privilege or reward can the teacher seek than to be enabled to aid in endowing the family of mankind with new gifts? 2005 E. Klensch (2006) v. 32 I believe love of family extends outward endlessly to the family of mankind. b. 1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont 1094 It is a disease like unto the Lues Venerea, and akin and familiar unto the nature of the horse: And therefore it might..have naturally transplanted its own ferment into the family of man. 1790 T. Coombe 7 It..hath awakened sentiments of pity towards all the suffering part of the family of man. 1837 10 286 He is one of the family of man, spread over the whole expanse of earth, of whatever colour or language. 1932 17 Dec. 14/3 Marriage is as old as the family of man. 2012 E. Finkel v. 154 This [sc. Africa] is where the family of man began some 200,000 years ago. P3. the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adverb] > in free and easy or familiar manner 1662 G. Sikes 156 How did Abraham walk and worship? The answer is; In a Family-way; 'twas Family-worship. 1709 R. Steele & J. Addison No. 136. ⁋1 His Wife is the Daughter of an honest House, ever bred in a Family-Way. 1784 II. 64 She would..stay some time with them, quite in the family way. 1788 G. Keate x. 107 At the house of this Chief they were received quite in a family way. a1798 J. Palmer (1811) I. 193 You'll find all in the family way. 1859 W. M. Thackeray II. x. 74 Why don't we ask him and his ladies to come over in a family way and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks? 1903 H. Pugh ii. vi. 255 The rector and his wife and daughter..going for an airing together, as someone remarked, ‘Quite happy like and in a family way’. 1970 9 July 2338 We all belong to the same party and we should discuss these things in a family way. the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective] the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [verb (transitive)] 1688 R. Thoresby 30 Sept. (1830) I. 190 I was most concerned for my dear wife, who was in the family way. 1796 E. Parsons I. 90 The Countess was again in the family way. 1824 S. E. Pierce 3 My mother was in the marriage state beyond a year, without being in a family way. 1898 Feb. 266 I did not put his wife in the family way. 1921 B. Gilbert 204 I know all about Lord Fitz getting Mogg's girl in the family way. 1930 R. Macaulay xv. 219 Poor Adrian, to be in the family way when he had so little expected it. 1983 Nov. 52/2 Foxx's furry pets have lived up to their reputation as fast breeders... It seems that the first rabbit to show up was already in a family way. 2006 24 June w8/4 It's one thing people not standing up for you on the bus when you're in the family way (and wearing 4in heels), but this was even worse. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius vi. 497 Anna Hovia a Maid, living in Family with her Sisters, to whom she was in nature of a Servant. 1667 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo vi. 200 My Grandmother was never without a Dozen Chamber-maids, and Nurses in Family. 1768 I. 87 Dining together, in family. 1803 tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine (1810) II. v. 34 You are I see quite in family, and on such an occasion a stranger is a check upon the effusion of the heart. 2012 A. C. Bastos et al. xxvi. 567 Dora describes..the lunch in family to celebrate the arrival of a brother after a long voyage. P5. 1787 Aug. 653/1 Is it not all in the family? and with whom can a man make free, if not with his relations? 1823 J. F. Cooper II. vi. 85 David says, in the Psalms—no, it was Solomon, but it was all in the family—Solomon said, there was a time for all things. 1922 K. Norris iii. 53 If the Brewers could do a little manipulating for their son, then so might Reuben do a little for his; it was, after all, all in the family. 1978 Feb. 18/2 A bulletin board filled with snapshots of the owner and friends, and the general disarray contribute to the all-in-the-family air of this Tex-Mex cafe. 2007 A. Chua xi. 299 The Chinese government may have hoped that overseas Chinese—being ‘all in the family’—would make loyal and dependable investors. 1835 C. Dickens in 13 Dec. 1/1 When you come to talk about slaves, and that there gammon, you'd better keep it in the family, 'cos I, for one, don't like to be called them names. 1885 G. Hamlen 127 Do not quarrel at all, if you can help it, but if you must, keep it in the family, provided it begins there. 1954 8 No. 2. 37 Prove a thing one way or another and one or the other ends up with a courtmartial. We all lose, both ways. Let's keep it in the family. 1994 (Nexis) 3 Mar. c1 ‘Be willing to ask for help,’ she said. The tendency is to keep the problem in the family. 2009 7 106/2 I was told constantly growing up not to talk about problems with others, I had to keep it in the family. 1910 L. E. Richards v. 60 I've always heard there was Minches in Vermont; I guess she's family all right. 1970 D. Devine xvi. 170 ‘Not that I approved of Cousin Francis,’ she said. ‘Still, he was family, wasn't he?’ 1985 Nov. 56/1 We run, lift weights—sweating and grunting together, you know, it's like male bonding, we're family. 2002 11 Sept. (9/11 Suppl.) 7/1 We lost six guys from our fire house. They were all my friends, they were family. 2011 J. L. Miles xlv. 140 I don't know why he wants to..introduce his fiancée to us anyway. It's not like we're family. 1915 7 Oct. 12/1 The family that plays together will stay together as well, and music makes for the good of all.] 1924 26 Feb. 1/8 The town where people play is the town where people stay; more play, more progress; the family that plays together, stays together; [etc.]. 1947 20 Oct. 3/3 Father Peyton has always said that ‘a family that prays together, stays together.’ 1971 22 Nov. 41/1 They [sc. buttons] read.., ‘The Family that Smokes Together Chokes Together,’ and ‘The Family that Drinks Together Stinks Together.’ 1990 D. H. Watt (1991) iv. 89 Billboards throughout the nation said that families that prayed together stayed together. 2005 29 July 1 It [sc. karate] has been good..as far as family unity is concerned. You might say the family that kicks together, sticks together. Compounds1916 92 We want a family-owned, a family-operated farm. 1935 18 July 4/8 We decided to put up for the night at one of those out of the way family-run pensions. 1956 Dec. 126 (heading) It's Guy Stillman's family-owned narrow-gauge railroad. 1989 Oct. 128/2 Another of the Bay Area's family-owned newspaper businesses was succumbing to the siren song of big bucks and chain ownership. 1995 June 253 The development of family-controlled enterprises may be explained less by the Chandler thesis, which has been based upon large and ownership-diversified American firms, than by alternate theories. 2006 Oct. (Foodie Cities Suppl.) 29/1 This family-run chain has five outlets around town and uses organic ingredients. C2. Many of the formations listed here are compounds of the noun, but some may alternatively be interpreted as compounds of the adjective.society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting other articles > [noun] > album 1815 Oct. 116 The ‘Tixall Poetry’ neither rises above nor sinks below the standard which we should be disposed to assign as the average value of a Family-Album. 1859 May 495/2 Besides the likenesses of your relatives, your family album should contain photographs of the birth-place and dwellings of your parents, grand-parents, brothers, and sisters. 1925 Jan. 323/1 In my childhood there was a sacred institution known as a family album; every decent household had one. 1934 Mar. 37/1 He can get a good hearty laugh out of pictures in an old family album. 2010 S. Stacey 333 While Lily's content, I want to take some pictures for the family album. 1769 J. Boswell 3 If he is a discreet man, well known to the family, he may be permitted to lie in the large common family-bed. 1853 T. Flint Diary 19 Apr. in (1923) 12 70 The bed given us was foot to foot with the family bed where a brat of a youngster kept us awake. 1883 Feb. 480/1 Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors..in the comfortable family home, or ham , among whose earliest..fixtures were the family bed and the family table. 1909 18 Sept. 754/2 From experience amongst the poor he was certain the child would..have to share the family bed with the parents and other children. 1981 20 Feb. B4/2 The new philosophy advocates letting a child sleep with his parents until he decides to leave the family bed. 2003 M. Weissbluth (ed. 3) 161 The American Academy of Pediatrics discourages the family bed because of sudden infant death syndrome. society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > edition > [noun] > place or purpose ?1720 T. Corbett 4 A cheap Family-Bible. a1881 J. J. Smith (1892) ii. iii. 125 Marriages, births, and deaths are proved either by the parish register or by memoranda written in the family Bible. 1997 J. Updike 123 I rummaged in the encyclopedia and the seldom-consulted family bible. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > boat worked by members of family 1805 T. M. Harris 30 Numerous trading and family boats pass continually... The latter convey the families of emigrants, with their new furniture, farming utensils, &c. to the new settlements they have in view. 1822 J. Flint 73 The craft, called family boats..are so formed as to carry all the necessaries of new settlers. 1883 W. C. Russell Family boats, the name given to smacks worked by members of the same family. 1902 W. H. Venable xxi. 150 This is worse than living in a family-boat, isn't it, gran'daddy? We have less room and no chance of moving. 2001 K. Dombrowski ii. 50 In commercial fishing, once-common family boats are now very rare..especially because of the inability of family boats to cut back on crew expenses. 1981 (Nexis) 15 Nov. The family ‘cap’ would reduce benefits by $1.8 billion annually after next year. 1994 11 Sept. xiii. 6/2 Members of her own party..suggested that a family cap should be required of all states. 2006 R. Haskins ix. 218 Records showed that in the year after implementing the family cap, births to mothers on welfare declined by around 1,500. society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > specific horse-drawn 1821 9 June 1/1 (advt.) A handsome family car and harness. Mr Howe will sell by auction, this present Saturday. 1897 9 Dec. 2/8 (advt.) Ralli Cart, in nice order, £14; Family Car, £16. Slye's, Talbot street. 1904 1 May 12/6 (advt.) The Yale Touring Car for 1904 represents..more value for the money than any other automobile in America. It is a family car in the fullest sense of the word. 1954 in (1955) 30 286 For these youths ‘grounded’ meant not having the use of the family car. 2008 4 Sept. 27/1 The Nano..is expected to be the cheapest mass market family car in the world when it goes on sale later this year. 1673 R. Baxter ii. vi. 515 The chief part of Family-Care and Government consisteth in the right Education of Children. 1753 S. Richardson II. xi. 130 After a while, leaving the whole family-care to her,..he was but little at home. 1850 July 212 They have commonly a hard burden of work, and of out-door work, and very often the realities of family care pressing on them at home. 1937 54 301 Fatigue and other internal conditions attendant upon a long day of activity associated with family care would lower the sensitivities and responses of the birds. 2010 E. N. Glenn iv. 108 Family care sometimes substituted for professional or institutional care, and sometimes it augmented it. 1854 G. S. Weaver vii. 126 He occupies the family centre; is related to all, and interested alike in the happiness of all. 1901 July 91 The family centre remained throughout the year at Norwood. 1936 9 Jan. 7/3 (heading) New family centres... The principal new feature of the holiday programme was the opening of centres..making special provision for family parties. 1997 J. B. Camps & J. C. Hernández in M. Gullestad & M. Segalen iv. 67 The mother, Lola, is the ‘family centre’ and on special occasions she gathers together all her kindred. 2004 H. Kennedy (2005) xi. 239 Real solutions will involve supporting communities more effectively with family centres and club houses, sports pitches and gyms. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household 1768 H. Brooke III. 9 To live peaceably and pleasingly within his family-circle. 1878 R. B. Smyth I. p. xxiv A tribe is in fact but an enlargement of a family circle. 1997 M. Acton (2000) vi. 125 Botticelli was almost certainly part of the Medici family circle. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > forfeit games 1709 No. 4522/2 That Coach was preceded by his Majesty's Family-Coaches. 1851 S. Warner II. xxix. 11 They played the Old Family Coach. 1919 E. R. Murray & H. B. Smith xviii. 165 For the acquisition of a vocabulary, such a game as the Family Coach might be played. 1928 L. Stockett xviii. 300 Small boys in pea-jackets and frilled shirts rode fat ponies, having much ado to keep up with the family coach. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > hereditary disease 1724 W. Bulstrode ix. 164 There are diverse Family Diseases, which run in the Blood. 1814 J. Adams 16 Diseases either appear at birth.., or they arise afterwards. The first only can with propriety be called hereditary or family diseases. 1831 5 Mar. 740/2 Diseases..are seen continually to descend through families, and, in fact, to form family diseases, derived from one side or the other. 1949 H. W. C. Vines (ed. 17) xxxviii. 1068 More frequently the disease appears in several members of a family, affecting brothers and sisters rather than parent and child. Such ‘family diseases’ are Friedreich's ataxia, amaurotic family idiocy, and progressive lenticular degeneration. 2012 22 4323/1 Recent studies on gene targeting in mice and family diseases of these receptors revealed that LPA [= lysophosphatidic acid] is involved in various patho-physiological states. 1660 J. Burroughs 456 The woful evils that doe proced from jars and divisions, from National-divisions, from Sea-divisions, Church-divisions, Family-divisions, Personal-divisions. 1785 Mrs. S. Boys I. xi. 123 It might arise from a domestic animosity, family division, or twenty other causes. 1889 M. Creighton viii. 163 The differences of opinion on this important proposal created family divisions. 1948 34 706/2 They will hereafter don the traditional judicial robes when they sit in the ‘family division’ of their Court. 1985 L. Kendall (1987) viii. 171 Although brothers may be the actual initiators of family division, the Chinese themselves blame brothers' wives. 2007 A. Gillespie iii. 80 Where children are concerned it is sometimes suggested that the Family Division adopts a more relaxed attitude to the notion of precedent. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > general practitioner > [noun] 1756 I. ii. 113 The Family Doctor..resided within a few Miles of Fairly-Manor. 1846 R. Ford xvii. 228 Most Spaniards who can afford it have their family or bolster doctor, the Medico de Cabecera. 1943 A. Christie viii. 92 He spoke in a comfortable family-doctor kind of way. 2001 J. Le Fanu p. vi I think of myself as being a well-informed and knowledgeable family doctor. 1936 25 Dec. 1/1 ‘It's a consumer's strike,’ explained strike-leader Dr C A Henry of Farson, gray-haired physician ‘who has family-doctored’ most of the 150 farm and village dwelling subscribers. 1952 ‘C. Brand’ v. 56 Fat old Tedward, who had family doctored her since she was born. 1785 R. Cumberland iii. 36 Frances..had a family-feeling for the house of Latimer. 1878 Dec. 299/1 It is not necessary to break up any legitimate family feeling that may exist in churches. 1902 H. James i. 15 Show family feeling by seeing what I'm good for. 2008 M. J. Corbett iv. 104 Her lack of family feeling for Aunt Reed. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property 1750 II. xxiii. 315 Loveill acquainted lady Frown that he knew the whole state of the family-fortune. 1837 Jan. 464 With the slender share of the small family fortune which falls to her, there is no chance of their union. 1937 1 Feb. 56 His bride's family fortune was lost in the Kreuger crash in 1932. 2006 G. Slade 136 Levitt gambled away his share of the family fortune and died penniless. 1737 Earl of Oxford Let. 7 Apr. in (1768) VI. 184 I have had an opportunity of seeing it, with a liberty of shewing it to some family friends, whom I would consult upon this occasion. 1840 J. R. Waddington I. xix. 316 Mr. Winwood remains at Ravenswood, not in the capacity of officiating Priest, but as an old and valued family friend. 1949 10 Jan. 97/1 He fell in love with Hadley Richardson of St. Louis, a family friend of the Smiths. 2005 22 Feb. 16/5 Marriage-minded people were introduced to each other by relatives or family friends. 1984 11 June 35/3 If they can design ‘user-friendly’ computers, why not user-friendly—and family-friendly—workplaces? 1994 (Nexis) 9 Sept. n7 Most family-friendly restaurants offer children's menus with some combination of kids' favorites such as spaghetti, chicken fingers and burgers. 2000 C. Pawlowski 205 The group of sponsors is footing the bill to develop up to eight ‘family-friendly’ pilot scripts designed to air on Time-Warner's WB network. 2008 9 Sept. 19/3 The Tory leader..has tried to put family-friendly policies at the heart of Conservative strategy. society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > [noun] society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > government of family society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > other systems > [noun] > system where each family is a political unit 1598 R. Cleaver 2 Mans wisedome reacheth but vnto one point, and that the least of that which family gouernment tendeth vnto. 1644 S. Rutherford vii. 48 How Noah was a King, or there was any Monarchicall government in the world then, the Prelate hath alone dreamed it: There was but Familie-government. 1715 D. Defoe I. i. v. 124 We must set up a Family Government entirely new. 1803 S. Smith in Apr. 34 In politics, they appear to have scarcely advanced beyond family-government. 1904 Nov. 658 It is a pity that democracy, being the fine thing it essentially is, should behave so rudely. Must we come to family government, in order to be filial or fraternal in our bearing with one another? 1999 W. E. Langley 103 Domestic violence against women..has been treated as a private matter to be dealt with by ‘family government’. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household > head of household society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > any part in front of stem > figure-head the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provision of means of support or livelihood > one who 1738 T. Bradbury 31 The first considers him [sc. Christ] as their Fœderal-Head: and the second as their Family-Head. 1835 Feb. 470 Faces from the catheads and bumkins have gone; and you have not seen the pretty group called a family-head on any of our men-of-war during the last thirty years. 2002 80 1303 Thresholds were differentiated by family size,..sex of family head, number of children, and age of family head. 1816 H. G. White in (ed. 4) Introd. 10 The ties of conjugal affection are the slavery of the will, and the family home a prison-house of the inclinations. 1914 20 May 671/2 Gaston P. Philip '96 died suddenly on October 11, 1913, at his family home at Claverack, N.Y. 2007 J. Mansell xlvi. 332 Six bedrooms, sea views... It's the house of our dreams, a proper family home. 1780 14 Aug. He has..fitted up..a very elegant and commodious house in John street, by the name of Osborne's New Family Hotel. 1889 J. K. Jerome i. 6 If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, I might be able to oblige you. 1912 6 Jan. 31/3 A family hotel notable for a quiet air of domesticity and a homelike atmosphere. 1995 Jan. g12/2 Enfants in tow, you'll want a family hotel with appropriate rates. 1723 E. Gibson (ed. 6) 6 I am also aware, that Children and Servants will sometimes be unavoidably hindred [sic] from attending the Family Hours of Prayer.] 1793 S. Gunning I. viii. 91 I got to Richmond just two hours ago; it is now near six o'clock, and, I understand, the family hour is seven—so I shall not stay a moment after the dinner-bell has rung. 1856 R. W. Emerson vi. 117 It [sc. dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London. 1956 7 May 5/2 On Sunday afternoon ‘Family Hour’ with..a rousing film of Robin Hood seemed more tolerable than anything on Saturday. 2012 G. Metcalf vii. 127 We still refer to the first evening hour of national programming as the family hour, although the meaning of it has largely disappeared. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > houses occupied by specific types of people 1727 T. Wotton et al. II. §313. 379 Richard..was seized of several Lands in Borough-Bridge, where is at present the antient Family House. 1741 11 July 4/1 (advt.) To be Sold, A Large Family House, finely situated on Bracondale-Hill by Norwich, (in a wholesome Air) that commands the River, with Stables.., and all other Conveniences. 1820 1 285 One half of them go to the house of the woman, and other to the family house of the man. 1892 16 Jan. 1/3 (advt.) To Let.., a good Family House, in Clifton, containing 3 Reception Rooms, 10 Bedrooms, large Kitchen, Scullery, Housekeeper's Room, [etc.]. 1907 T. M. Lindsay (ed. 2) I. ii. i. 193 It was a custom among these Thuringian peasants that only one son..inherited the family house and the croft. 1992 S. Mackay v. 65 ‘It's a family house,’ the estate agent had repeated, ‘It needs a family.’ 2012 (Nexis) 1 July 21 Close by, the handsome family house, an early 19th-century rectory, has five acres of land. 1968 78 301 The state's election only changes the amount of the family income supplements under section 5. 1985 4 June 5/2 The most innovative proposal [in the Government Green Paper] is the abolition of Family Income Supplement. 2013 A. O'Donnell in K. V. W. Stone & H. Arthurs xv. 280 From the early 1980s [in Australia] a new and enhanced family income supplement was paid to low-income households with children. society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > other branches or departments of law society > law > types of laws > [noun] > personal or family 1728 W. Reading I. ix. 113 Particularly in that great family-Law concerning Marriage, he was perfectly conformable to his Mother's pleasure. 1827 G. D. B. Beaumont 47 These rules [concerning dispositions of land]..form the ground-work of ‘family law’. 1888 3 152 This continental Europe obtained a common commercial law in the corpus juris civilis, as it had obtained a common family law in the corpus juris canonici. 1914 C. H. W. Johns i. 4 Abundant evidence was available as to..the family laws relating to marriage, divorce, adoption, inheritance, maintenance, &c. 2004 (Nexis) 22 May 16 [She] graduated in law from Queen's at the top of her class, before going on to practise family law. society > leisure > [noun] > leave of absence > type of 1968 23 June (Week Mag.) 5/3 All workers might be given the same number of days of ‘family leave’ a year, so that the burden of time lost for home emergencies would be shared by the employers of both parents. 1994 (Nexis) 1 Dec. 19 A large chain agreed to provide three days' family leave annually to all of its 5000 full-time shop assistants. 2011 C. Voss 56 I heard she took family leave a few months later to help her sister—you—recover from a car accident. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > a line of descent a1694 R. Fleming (1743) 63 One Generation might declare the Truth and Faithfulness of God unto another, in a Family-Line. 1809 Mar. 196 There is no reason to suppose that the family lines of sovereigns whom he has placed on different thrones, will display such a superiority to the dynasties they have expelled. 1902 21 190 The extermination of the fourth generation therefore would end the family line. 2008 23 Oct. 28/3 We get to meet the endangered species in person—one Len Greeham, last of a family line of morocco-grainers from the English town of Northampton. society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > family-living 1760 Life p. xviii, in J. Hervey I. He took Possession of the two Family Livings. 1883 C. Reade in Dec. 132/2 Joe was ordained priest, took the family living. 1999 L. Sage 536/1 The novel traces the career of an earnest young man through Oxford, too-easy ordination and appointment to a family living. society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > familism > [noun] > person 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ To Rdr. sig. D2 I meddle not here with the Anabaptists, Famely louists, Machiauellists, nor Atheists. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] 1673 R. Baxter ii. iii. 502 Familie members are more nearly related than neighbours, and have much more advantage and opportunity for conjunction. 1860 III. iv. 96 She was obliged to have her husband and three brothers as well as other family members close at hand. 1958 114 733/2 Family therapy is complex... Therapists do not function in isolation with individual family members. 2004 R. S. Berkowitz iii. viii Simply doing the dishes for another family member..is an act of love and generosity. 1949 M. Mead 460 A multi-disciplinary approach to family-oriented treatment of illness. 1965 M. Bradbury v. 265 I thought England was a family-oriented society. 2006 R. Nerz v. 56 Thanksgiving..is arguably nothing more than a family-oriented, untimed, unsanctioned nationwide eating contest. society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > others 1735 No. 480. 106 Finding it to be only a Family Party, [he] desired that He might be admitted into it. 1795 tr. K. P. Moritz 116 I saw..sundry little family parties, walking arm in arm along the banks of the Thames. 1941 Mar. 371/1 A family party..arrived on the scene: Mother, aunty, two nippers. 2001 L. Rennison 140 He is..going to a family party; it's his mum's birthday. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > general practitioner > [noun] 1676 G. Harvey (title) The family physician, and the house apothecary. 1685 Pref. sig. A6 This skilful and learned Family-Physician [sc. the author] hath endeavoured the cure and repair of the head and heart of those Families. 1715 J. Catherwood 53 Penn..was one day seiz'd with Convulsions at his Table..: immediately their Family Physician was sent for, who took the usual Method of treating him. 1840 (title) The family physician: being a guide to the regulation of health and prevention of disease. 1908 G. M. Gould II. ii. 68 The family physician's function seems to be fast becoming that of adviser-in-general and referrer-to-others. 1930 (title) The family physician. 2013 (Nexis) 8 May b4 People naturally feel..inclined to share personal details of their lives, as if talking to their family physician. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > painting composed of figures > group-picture 1718 J. Fox 14 Feb. 8 A Gallery furnish'd with Family-Pictures. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. xii. 69 The walls..were thickly covered, chiefly with family pictures;..now and then some Dutch fair, or battle-piece. 1907 11 Dec. 12/1 An American exclaiming before a family picture: ‘My, what poppy eyes these Churchills have got!’ 2001 T. Parsons ix. 100 There are lots of family pictures on the mantelpiece. Rose and I on our wedding day. Me as a child. Me as a baby. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > a portrait the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property > heirloom society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > painting composed of figures > group-picture 1732 W. Burroughs 70 Mrs. Judith Persode has received of me five Family Portraits, which I valued at ten Pounds. 1814 J. Austen I. ix. 174 Of pictures there were abundance, and some few good, but the large part were family portraits . View more context for this quotation 1904 M. G. Smallwood v. 53 A family portrait of Lord and Lady Derby with their daughter. 1998 P. K. Stembridge i. 80 Two family portraits hung in this parlour: those of Thomas Goldney III and his father. a1691 R. Baxter (1696) 435 The Liturgy medleth not with Families, and among the diversity of Family Practice, no man knoweth what to call the Practice of the Church. 1749 T. Bradbury i. 8 All you have to say for doing it, is ‘that it's a Family Practice, that you tread in the Steps of your Fathers.’ 1769 J. Hill (title) The family practice of physic... Accompanied with such directions that any person may use them successfully for himself or family. 1830 24 Apr. 272/1 This is a straightforward, sensible medical work, intelligible to mothers, and therefore very valuable for family practice. 1838 C. Caldwell 18 What a contrast is this with the intrigues of physicians..to supplant each other in family-practice! 1839 H. Martineau I. x. 93 The family practice was to transact all private consultations in the morning. 1961 June 9/2 A new, improved two-year program of training in family practice is now being tried. 1995 Sept. 484/1 Balée devotes a substantial part of his book to describing the lives of the Ka'apor—the family practices, hunting, and fishing, gathering, gardening, child care. 2010 P. Torrens in B. Freshman et al. i. 8 Mrs. Simmons had a good relationship with her family physician, a young female physician recently trained in family practice. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > general practitioner > [noun] 1754 J. Hill Introd. p. xxviii This is all the family Practitioner will need with distilling. 1846 C. Dickens (1848) i. 4 ‘Mr. Pilkins here, who from his position of medical adviser in this family—no one better qualified to fill that position, I am sure.’ ‘Oh!’ murmured the family practitioner. 2004 94 1660/1 During my fourth year in medical school, I participated in a preceptorship with a family practitioner in a small rural community. society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > a romance > specific 1814 Lady Morgan II. ii. 45 We have already been entertained beyond every thing with a little family romance of your's. 1910 21 May 509/2 It is a long and very well-plotted family romance. 1913 Oct. 680/1 That..is easily explained and refers to the so-called ‘family romance’ of neurotics who, as we know, imagine themselves the children of noble parents. 1993 18 Jan. c4/3 The limited action sequences are incidental to the torpid family romance. 2007 V. Loichot ii. 40 This is no Freudian family romance in which the fictive parents belong to a noble kind. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > villa or country house 1712 tr. R. Bentley 19 This Treasure of antient Deeds is kept partly in Town, and partly in the Country in your Family Seat. 1835 G. G. Cunningham IV. 177 He [sc. Lord Bolingbroke]..took up his residence at his family-seat in Battersea, which had now fallen to him by the death of his father. 1995 27 July 5/3 Lord Strathmore, whose family seat is Glamis Castle in Scotland. 1650 tr. P. Panter 5 Thereby were forbidden, not onely publike but private devotions, and Family-Service should cease. 1748 (ed. 2) 29 I do not at present call to Mind any Thing in them [sc. public prayers] which may not be easily altered and fitted to a Family-Service. 1847 C. Bridges 29 The Christian who looks for communion with his God in the family service, will first seek it in the closet. 1922 16 Feb. 163/3 The First Unitarian Church, Louisville, Ky., holds a family service the first Sunday of each month. The children participate in this service. 1995 (Electronic ed.) 25 May 2 Denig is to be cremated later at a family service. 2005 S. May et al. 237 Churches may choose to have a family service once a month... Although persons of all ages are invited to attend, the intent is to draw families. 1822 3 Mar. 4/5 (advt.) Dr. Smith's Specific Tincture..family size 33s. each.] 1882 118 2 family-size egg beaters. 1954 (News of World) 313/1 In the most up-to-date camps, visitors are accommodated in single, double, treble or family-size chalets. 1972 6 Sept. 1/2 Vendors who six months ago sold several different brands of American detergent in both family-size and regular-size boxes now sell only..in small boxes. 1999 C. Brookmyre (2000) 242 When the poor bastard did wake up, it would be with a family-size variety pack of headaches. 2005 T. Hall xi. 232 He..refused to eat the home-cooked food that his wife prepared, opting instead for family-size bucketfuls of Ai Halal Fried Chicken. 1853 8 Jan. 137/4 We merely ordered a pint bottle of stout between us, but the contents hardly filled a family sized tumbler. 1891 20 Dec. 22/4 Please send me one of your family-sized bottles of Carlsbad Obesity Pills. 1914 4 893 The family-sized farm is persistent and seems likely to remain so. 1963 K. H. Seibel ii. 46 Caramel corn is now sold at supermarkets in family-sized bags. 2001 Aug. 60/1 We're perched on family-sized settees in the front room. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [noun] > something concealed, a secret > unfortunate secret the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [noun] > cause of disgrace > secret 1850 W. M. Thackeray II. xxi. 208 That ugly closet..in which, according to the proverb, the family skeleton is locked up. 1961 23 Mar. 9/2 Family skeletons are being brought out of the German cupboard. 2004 54 4/2 My investigation into Gustav's career revealed..a family skeleton. 1958 6 July 14/4 ‘How,’ asks a family therapist, ‘can any man teach his children anything but the lesson he has been forced to learn.’ 1963 25 154/1 The role of the family therapist is a much more active one certainly than in individual therapy, and a much more personal one than is typical in group therapy. 2002 Dec. 154/1 Family therapists say stepfamilies need plenty of time to gel. 1953 17 July 15/8 He spoke of four areas of this field of concern..4—Family therapy in the treatment of alcoholism. 1960 L. P. Thorpe (ed. 2) ix. 234 Family Therapy. For a therapist boldly to announce that an entire family, rather than a given member..needs help with its problem is a step which few clinicians have dared to undertake. 1991 June 76/1 Family therapy begins with a process called ‘joining’ which involves forming a new system composed of the therapist and family. 2011 7 Nov. 23/2 Rupert's issue are now in family therapy to prepare them for the inheritance battle ahead. 1727 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras IV. 36 Every one steered his Course according as he was engaged, either by Family-Ties, or by other Motives. 1867 A. Trollope I. xxxii. 271 ‘I am aware that there is a family tie, or I should not have ventured to trouble you.’ ‘Blood is thicker than water; isn't it?’ 1952 P. Larkin Let. 1 Oct. in (1992) 190 I'm always suspicious of family ties: my advice to anyone of advisory age is, get away from your family. 1998 (Nexis) 3 Jan. 19 Shields said he had volunteered for the trip because he was single and had few family ties that would prevent a quick departure. 2010 E. J. Neyra 97 He was a descendant of John Quincy Adams—although he seemed somehow disconnected, without any family ties. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household 1860 S. Phillips xv. 169 The home-altar, around which all the members gather morning and evening, as a family-unit. 1970 24 Sept. 1/1 The number of family units on the welfare rolls has more than doubled in the past year. 2003 S. Greenfield (2004) vi. 161 A variation on traditional monogamy is serial monogamy, in keeping with the increased fluidity of the family unit. society > morality > [noun] > moral habits or conduct 1912 M. B. Borthwick tr. E. Key vii. 184 He must for the sake of his work renounce many family values [Sw. hemvärden] important for this emotional side of his being. 1928 38 347 Such disintegration of the large-family system does not mean the destruction of the old family values. 1966 A. M. Greeley & P. H. Rossi iii. 69 Marriage and family values do show some relationship with Catholic education. 1993 16 Aug. 13/2 Bauer and Buchanan view ‘family values’ in the Reaganite way: as a chance to assert themselves as the moral guardians of the past, a world of two-parent families and heterosexuality. 2008 J. Burchill & C. Newkey-Burden p. xii Hypocrisy meant Tory MPs who preached family values while banging their secretaries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.adj.1388 |
