FAMILY

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 38

n. Fa"m'i2-li2. Gr., oi'a. Lat., familia. Fr.,/amille. Ger., Familie. It., Sp., familia. 1. A collective term for the persons of an individual household or for the descendants of given ancestors. 2. A group of genera more or le allied, fa, 24.] 3. As an adj. (L ., familiar is; Fr., familial), pertaining or peculiar to a certain f., hereditary. [s. 800]