familiarization (famil"yarizashon)

[ harden the heart. There can be no question that a constant familiar is a tion with such scenes blunts the feelings, if it does not T. Hook , Gilbert Gurney, II. i. familiarize (fa-mil'ya-riz), v. t.; pret. and pp. familiarized , ppr. familiarizing . [ familia riser = Sp. Pg. familiar izar = It. familiarizzare ; as familiar + -ize.] 1. To make familiar or intimate; render conversant by customary use, experience, or intercourse; acquaint closely: as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of dis tre . King Bogoris hoped to familiarise men's minds with the tenets of the gospel. Milman, Latin Christianity, v. 8. In order that men should believe in witches, their intellects must have been familiarised with the conceptions of Satanic power and Satanic presence. Lecky , Rationalism, I. 81. These strange woes stole on tiptoe, as it were, Into my neighborhood and privacy, Sat down where I sat, laid them where I lay; And I was found familiarized with fear. Browning , Ring and Book, II. 11. 2. To accustom familiarly, as to the sight, knowledge, or practice of something; habituate; inure. [Now rare.] Being familiarized to it, men are not shocked at it. Butler. 31. To make familiar in manner; cause to act or be exercised familiarly or affably. For the cure of this particular sort of madne , it will be nece ary to break through all forms with him, and familiarize his carriage by the use of a good cudgel. Steele, Tatler, No. 127. 2. The tendency to live in families; that sys Familism, the love of those nearest and dearest, loses its excluding character. R. T. Ely , French and German Socialism, p. 99. Familist (fam'i-list), n. [F. familliste, The primitive Christians in their times were accounted such as are now call'd Familists and Adamites, or worse. Milton , Church-Government, i. 6. 2. [l. c.] The head of a family; a family man. [Rare.] If you will needs be a familist and marry, muster not the want of i ue among your greatest afflictions. Osborne, Advice to a Son.