fam1lism

[Lat. famii (ia); Eng. suff.- ism.] The doctrines or tenets of the Familists. făm-1-list, s. [Lat. famil (ia), Eng. suff. -ist.] 1. Ch. Hist. & Ecclesiol .: A sect which arose in Holland about the middle of the sixteenth century, and taught that the e ence of religion consisted in the feelings of divine love, hence they were other wise called the Family of Love (q. v.). [FAMILY, 3.] *2. The head of a family; a family man. făm-1-lis-tic, *făm-I-lis-tick, *făm-I-lis'tic-al, a. [Eng familist ; -ic; al.] Of or pertaining to the Familists. făm-i-lỹ, s . & a. [Fr. famille , from Lat familia =a household, from famulus a servant, from Oscan famel a servant, from faama =a house; cf. Sans. dháman = an abode, a house, from the root, dhá = to set, to place; Sp. & Port. familia ; Ital. famiglia .] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language : 1. Those who live in the same house collectively; a household including parents, children and serv ants. "Her [the Infanta's] family is settling apace, and most of her ladies and officers are known already."- Howell Letters, p. 132. 2. The parents and children living together. 3. The children as distinguished from the parents; as, He has a large family . 4. Those who can trace their descent from one common progenitor; a race; a tribe; kindred; lineage. "To advance Thy name and honorable family ." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus , i. 2. *5. The human race. "Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named."- Ephesians , iii. 15. 6. A society; a body; a cla . "Those only who were adopted into their [the Fami lists'] family were elected."- Baker : Chronicle (an. 1602). 7. A collection, body, or union of states, nations, or peoples. "By the mixtures of three branches of the great Teu tonic family with each other."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., IMG:content-1409.png:[blocks in formation] families akin to each other, and naturally grouping themselves around a typical genus. Macleay, Swains on, and the other advocates of the now abandoned Quinary system, introduced great precision into cla ification, and considered that in Zoology there were nine ranks or grades in a natural cla ification of animals-viz., (1) Kingdom, (2) Sub-kingdom, (3) Cla , (4) Order, (5) Tribe, (6) Family, (7) Subfamily, (8) Genus, (9) Sub-genus. Families were uniformly made to end in Mod. Lat. -idæ , from Gr. eidos =form. This termination for a zoological family still almost, though not quite, universally prevails. Other terms are sometimes intercalated in both zoology and botany, viz., sub-cla , suborder, . marine; gō, põt, family-man, s. One who leads a domestic life; one who has a family or household. between members of the same family. family-tie, s . The bond of union and affection 2. Hist .: In the hotter countries rain is not dif- fused as uniformly over the year as in this country, but is nearly limited to one portion of it. In India, for example, the rainy season lasts four months, and then there are eight of dry weather. Wherever, in such regions, no means are taken to store the water for the purpose of irrigation, drought great enough to be destructive to crops will sooner or later take place and famine supervene. Of such a drought and dearth there is a highly graphic description in Jer. xiv. 1-6. Many famines are recorded in Script- ure (Gen. xii. 10, xxvi. 1, xli. 54-57; Ruthi. 1; 2 Sam. xxi. 1; 1 Kings xviii. 2-6; 2 Kings xxv. 3; Jer. lii. 6). sieges or other military operations. India has long been the seat of famines. Mr. Mill mentions one between A. D. 1640 and 1655, which extended all through India and beyond it; one in the Deccan in 1661; one in Bengal in 1770, which is said to have destroyed one-third of the inhabitants of that large and very populous province; these were produced by drought. One in Madras in 1782 arose from the ravages of Hyder Ali's army. More recent Indian famines were in the North-Western Provinces in 1837-8, when it is said that more than 800,000 people died; in Bengal and Ori a in 1865-6, when about a million perished; in Bengal in 1874, which was so succe fully grappled with, but at an expense of about six million pounds of money, that few died; and finally one in Bomoay, Madras, and Mysore, in 1876-7, le succe fully treated, for the deaths are by some estimated at half a million. A portion of the Indian revenues are now annually set aside to gave offense to some. In 1575 they laid a confe ion of their faith before Parliament, and applied un- succe fully for toleration. In 1580, Queen Elizabeth and her Council made an effort to suppre them. They were denounced by proclamation, and their books ordered to be burned in October, 1580. In 1604 and 1645, Blunt says that: "Familists were extreme Antinomians. Strype mentions two sec- tions of them, the Family of the Mount, and the Family of the E entialists, who denied the exist- ence of sin. There was thus gro immorality among them, and Penn and Baxter speak in severe terms of their exce es." ( Blunt : Dict . of Sects , .) Among those who wrote against them were Henry Moore and George Fox, the founder of the Quakers. They were also called Familists (q. v.). Crabb thus discriminates between family , house, lineage , and race : notes those who live in the same house , and is com--Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iii. monly extended in its signification to all that pa es under the same roof: hence we rather say that a woman manages her family ; that a man rules his house. The family is considered as to its relationships; the number, union, condition and quality of its members: the house is considered more as to what is transacted within its walls. We Famines have occurred in Europe in ancient and med iæval, and in modern times. England was visited by them in 1087, 1251, 1315, 1335, 1353, . Famines have several times taken place in Ireland, owing to the failure of the potato crop, on which the ma of the people have too exclusively de- pended for subsistence. The most notable one was that in 1846, which led to the abolition of the British Corn Laws (q. v.). Ten millions of pounds were voted by Parliament in 1847, to relieve the distre . B. As adj .: Of or pertaining to a famine; occur- ring in or characteristic of a time of famine. "Wheat was at shillings the quarter, which House figuratively dewould even now be considered as almost a famine price." famine-fever, s. Medical : 1. Typhus fever." 2. Relapsing fever. Of Israel here had famished , had not God Rained from heaven manna." Milton: P. R. , ii. 311. *II. Fig .: To be or become exhausted; to faint. "The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish." -Proverbs x. 3. 2. To kill with hunger or starvation; to starve. "What, did he marry me to famish me?"- Shakesp : Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3. IMG:content-1410.png:[blocks in formation] "There was a clerke, one Lucius, A courtier, a famous man." tinguished; it ensures regard and veneration. A person may be famous for his eccentricities; cele- brated as an artist, a writer, or a player; renowned as a warrior or a statesman; illustrious as a prince, a statesman, or a senator." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.) *fā-moused, a. [English famous ; -ed.] Cele- brated, renowned, illustrious, noted. fā-mous-ly, adv . [Eng. famous ; -ly.] *1. By common report, notoriously; commonly. "As cor the religion of Mahomet, it is famously known to have been planted by force at first." -Til lots on Ser mons, vol. i., ser. 20. "Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel." *făm-u-lŭs, s. [Lat.=a servant.] 1. The a istant of a magician. "The magician's famulus got hold of the forbidden book, and summoned a goblin."-Carlyle. 2. A drudge. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1412.png:[blocks in formation] "The prisoner with a spring from prison broke, Then stretched his feathered fans with all his might, And to the neighboring maple winged his flight.' IMG:content-1413.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord. Lang.: Resembling a fan in shape or form. 2. Bot .: Plaited like a fan, as the leaves of Bo- ra us flabelliform is . Fan - shaped window: Arch .: A window consisting of rather more than a semicircle, the circumference of which is cut out in circular notches. Windows of this kind are fre- quent in the early German style of architecture. IMG:content-1414.png:[blocks in formation] the same curve, and diverge equally in every direction, pro- ducing an effect not unlike that of the stiff portions of a fan. It was IMG:content-1415.jpg:[blocks in formation] or vaulting used in the Perpen- dicular style, in which the vault is covered with fan-tracery. It is peculiar to Eng- lish Gothic. Very fine examples of it exist in England in Henry VII.'s Chapel, Westminster: St. George's Chapel, Windsor; King's College Chapel, Cambridge; and the cloisters of Gloucester Cathe- fan-wheel, s. A fan-blower; an apparatus con- sisting of a shaft armed with wings or beaters re- volving in a case. It is used in grain-cleaners, winnowing-machines, blowers for furnaces, ., and is the most common device for obtaining a blast of air for any purpose. făn, *fan-nen, *van-ni, v . t. [FAN, 8.] I. Literally : 1. To move, agitate, or set in motion as with a fan. "They summed their pens, and soaring the air sub- lime, With clang despised the ground. the air Floats as they pa , fanned with unnumbered plumes." Milton: P. L. , vii. 432. IMG:content-1416.png:[blocks in formation] "By slow degrees he fans the gentle fire, Till perseverance makes the flame aspire." King: Art of Love , pt. xiv. "Nor that wild energy which leads The enthusiast to fanatic deeds." IMG:content-1417.png:[graphic] fancied făn -çied, pa. par. & a. [FANCY, v.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Formed in the fancy or imagination; imaginary, "More than thy fancied guilt with jealous pangs could sting." Hemans : The Maremma. 2. Esteemed, thought highly of, liked, valued, attractive. făn-çi-er, s. [Eng. fancy; -er.] 1. One who fancies or imaginos anything. 2. One who takes a fancy or liking to anything; an admirer. 3. One who breeds and keeps for sale birds, animals, ., as, a pigeon - fancier , a bird- fancier . "It would prevent the comb of the male from being perfectly upright, which would be abhorrent to every Jancier."-Darwin: Descent of Man (1871), vol. ii., р. 159.