familistere (famelestar)

[F., familliste, in lit. sense one of a family: see Familist.] A community of Fourierist or other communists living together as one family; the building in which such persons live; a phalanstery. In 1859 Godin put up a large building called the fami listère , for the accommodation of 300 families, adding a theater, school-house, etc. Sci . Amer . Supp . , p. 8761. It [Guise in France] has an old castle dating from the 16th century and a palatial familistère with accommodation for 400 families. Encyc. Brit ., XI. 265. family dhāman, an abode, house, Rod . Signior, is all your family within? Iago. Are your doors locked? Shak . , Othello, i. 1. Pie . Is your worship of the family Unto the Lady Pecunia? Bro. I serve her grace, sir. B. Jonson , Staple of News, ii. 1. are seen to be The two societies, Roman and Hindoo,. formed, at what for practical purposes is the earliest stage of their history, by the multiplication of a particular unit or group, the Patriarchal Family . The group consists of animate and inanimate property, of wife, children, slaves, land, and goods, all held together by subjection to the despotic authority of the eldest male of the eldest ascending line, the father, the grandfather, or even more Maine , Early Hist. of Institutions, p. 310. Families are the unity of which society is composed, as ti ue is made of cells, and matter of molecules. J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 225. remote ancestor. 2. Parents with their children, whether they dwell together or not; in a more general sense, any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: often used in a restricted sense only of a group of parents and children founded upon the principle of monogamy. Why, so didst thou. Either his uncle, or his uncle's son,. or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him. Lev. xxv. 49. Come they of noble family ? Shak ., Hen. V., ii. 2. 3. In a narrow use, the children of the same parents, considered collectively apart from the parents: as, they (a husband and wife) have a large family to care for; a family of children. [In all the above uses, frequently used figuratively with regard to animals.] Seldom at church ('twas such a busy life), But duly sent his family and wife. Pope, Moral E ays, iii. 382. 4. In the most general sense, those who descend from a common progenitor; a tribe or race; kindred; lineage. Thus, the Israeli tes were a branch of the family of Abraham; the whole human race constitutes the human family. Hence-5. Any group or aggregation of things cla ed together as kindred or related from po e ing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order. Thus, a body of languages regarded as representatives of a common ancestor, or as having come by gradual proce es of alteration and divarication from the same original tongue, is called a family: as, the Indo-European family; the South African family. There be two great families of things, sulphureous and mercurial. Bacon , Nat. Hist. The states of Europe were, by the prevailing maxims of its policy, closely united in one family . Everett . Specifically-6. In scientific cla ifications, a group of individuals more comprehensive than a genus and le so than an order, based on fewer or le definite points of physical resemblance than the former, and on more or more definite ones than the latter. In zoology the name of a family now almost invariably ends in -idæ, which has the force of a patronymic. The prime divisions of a family are termed subfamilies, and end usually in- ince. The prime a ociations of families are in some refinements of cla ific a familistery (fam-i-lis'te-ri), n.; pl. familisteries tion called superfamilies ; there is no obvious distinction, (-riz). Same as familistère . familistic, familistical (fam-i-lis'tik, -ti-kal), a. [ familist + -ic-al.] Pertaining to the Fam- ilists or to familism. And such are, for ought that ever I could discern, those Seraphick, Anabaptist ick, and Familistick Hyperboles, those proud swelling words of vanity and novelty, with which those men use to deceive the simple and credulous sort of people. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 195. About this time there arose great troubles in the country, especially at Boston, by the breathing of antinomian and familistical opinions. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 198. family (fam'i-li), n . and a. [Early mod. E. fam ilie (not in ME.) = D. G. Dan. familie = F. fa mille = Pr. familla = Sp. Pg. familia = It.fami glia = Sw. familj , familia , the servants in a household, a household establishment, the domestics collectively; hence the household, the estate, property, rarely in the later and mod. sense of family (parents and children), for which L. dom us was used, famulus , a servant, OL. famul , famel , a servant, prob. faama , a house, perhaps akin to Skt. however, between these and suborders. The recognition and definition of the family, as of other zoological groups, is entirely a matter of expert opinion, having no natural nece ity for being; hence the wide difference among zoologists in their evaluation of the term. A modern family is usually le comprehensive than a genus as used in the last century. The use of the regular termination -idæ has done much to fix the valuation of the family more stably than that of either the genus or the order. Zoological families are considered as being approximately of the same grade in cla ification as the groups called orders in botany. Hence the word family is generally used by botanists as a synonym of order: as, order Ranunculaceæ, the crowfoot family. In cryptogamic botany the family is the prime division of the order or suborder, and the prime division of the family is the subfamily or tribe; but in some cla ifications the family is made to rank next below the tribe. The absolute rank of the family also varies with different au thors, the family of one being the order of another, etc. The usual termination is eæ (or -ei), but -aceæ (or- acer ) is used as a family termination in some cases. See cla if i cation. 7. Course of descent; genealogy. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young; Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. Pope, E ay on Man, iv. 213. family 8. Descent; especially, noble or respectable stock: as, a man of good family. Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. Defoe , True-Born English man, i. 9. A cluster of microscopic plants formed by the adherence of a number of individuals; a colony.- Family of curves. See curve. - Family of Love. See Familist, 1.-Family of surfaces. See surface.- Happy family, an a emblage of animals of diverse habits and propensities living amicably, or at least quietly, together in one cage. Holy family, the family of which Christ formed a part in his early years; especially, a group consisting of Joseph and Mary and the infant Jesus, with or without attendants, called specifically the Holy Family, which has been from early tintes a frequent subject of pictorial representation. In the bosom of one's family. See bosom. II. a . Pertaining to or connected with the family. Family altar. See altar . - Family chack. See chack2.- Family Compact (F. Pacte de Famille ), a name given to three treaties in the eighteenth century between the French and Spanish Bourbon dynasties, especially to the last of the three in 1761, in consequence of which Spain joined with France in the war against Great Britain. The branch house of Bourbon ruling in Italy was also included in this alliance. Family council, family meeting, in civil law , as in Louisiana and Quebec, a council of the relatives or friends of a person for whose sake a judicial proceeding, as the appointment of a guardian, is to be taken, called and presided over by a judicial officer, and held under legal forms. - Family man, one who has a family or a household; a man clined to lead a domestic life. The Jews are generally, when married, most exemplary family men. Mayhew. Family tie, the bond of union and affection existing between members of the same family. - Family way or state, pregnancy. In the family way, pregnant. family-head+ (fam'i-li-hed), n. Naut ., the stem of a ve el when it was surmounted by several full-length figures.