famicide (famisid)

[ Be not to fers, to familary , but frendli of chere. The ABC of Aristotle , 1. 6 (E. E. T. S., extra ser., [VIII. 1. 66). [Altered in familiar (fa-mil'yär), a. and n. spelling to bring it nearer the L. I. a. Jamylier , famileer , famulier , familer , famuler , intimate, familier , famelier , famulier , F. familier = Pr. Sp. Pg. familiar = It. famigliare = D. familiaar = G. familiär = Dan. familiær = Sw. familjär , familiar is , of or belonging to a household, domestic, private, of the family, intimate, friendly, familia , household, family: see family . II. n. familer , n., familier , etc., familiar is , a familiar ac- quaint ance, a friend, an intimate, familiar is , adj., familiar: see I.] I. a . 1. Pertaining to a family; domestic. [Rare.] O perilous fyre, that in the bedstraw bredeth: O famulier [var. famuler ] fo, that his service bedeth! Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 540. Byron. Let us have done with that which cankers life - Familiar feuds and vain recriminations. 2. Having, or springing from, intimate and friendly social relations; closely intimate: as, a familiar friend; familiar companionship; to be on familiar terms with one. My familiar friend hath lifted up his heel against me. Ps. xli. 9. 3. Having a friendly aspect or manner; exhibiting the manner of an intimate friend; affable; not formal or distant; especially, using undue familiarity; intrusive; forward. Be thou familiar , but by no means vulgar. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 3. You must not be saucy, No, nor at any time familiar with me. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, ii. 3. I will take upon me to be so familiar as to say, you must accept my invitation. Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 226. 4. Characterized by ease or absence of stiffne or pedantry; unconstrained. He unreins His muse, and sports in loose familiar strains. Add is on . Ill brook'd he then the pert familiar phrase. Crabbe, Works, IV. 116. 5. Having an intimate knowledge; well knowing; well acquainted; well versed (in a subject of study): as, he is familiar with the works 161. False and fekylle was that wyghte, That lady for to fame.