210 F A M 
FAMI'LTAR, adj. \_familiaris, Lat.] Domeftic; re¬ 
lating to a family.—They range familiar to the dome. 
P°P e .~ -Affable ; not formal; eafy in converfation.—-Be 
thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shakefpeare. —Un¬ 
ceremonious ; free, as among perfons long acquainted.— 
Kalandar ftraight thought he favv his niece Parfhenia, and 
was about in fuch familiar fort to have fpoken unto her ; 
but (he, in grave and honourable manner, gave him to 
underhand that he was midaken. Sidney .—Well known ; 
brought into knowledge by frequent practice orcudom.— 
One idea which is familiar to the mind, connected with 
others which are new and (trange, will bring thofe new 
ideas into eafy remembrance. IVatts. 
Let us chufe fuch noble counfel, 
"I hat war, or peace, or both at once, may be, 
As things acquainted and familiar to us. Shakefpeare. 
Well acquainted with; accudomed ; habituated by cuf- 
tom.— I he fenfes at fir ft let in particular ideas; and the 
mind, by degrees, growing familiar with fome of them, 
they are lodged in the memory, and names got to them. 
Locke. 
Patient permit the fadly-pleafing drain, 
Familiar now with grief, your tears refrain. Pep:. 
Common; frequent.-—To a wrong hypothecs may be re¬ 
duced the errors that may be occafioned by a true hypo- 
thefis, but not rightly underdood : there is nothing more 
familiar than this. Locke. —Eafy; uncondrained : 
He unreins 
His mufe, and fports in loofe familiar drains. Addifon. 
Too nearly acquainted,—A poor man found a pried fami¬ 
liar with his wife, and becaufe he fpake it abroad, and 
could not prove it, the pried fued him for defamation. 
Camden. 
FAMILIAR, f. An intimate; one long acquainted.— 
The king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar. Shake - 
fpeare .—A demon ftippofed to attend at call.—Love is a 
familiar-, there is no evil angel but love. Shakefpeare. 
FAMILI A'RITY, f. \_familiarite, Fr. from familiar.~\ 
Eafinefs of converfation ; omiflion of ceremony ; affability. 
Acquaintance ; habitude.—We contrail at laft fuch an 
intimacy and familiarity with them, as makes it difficult 
and irkfome for us to call off our minds. Atterbury .—Eafy 
intercourfe.—They fay any mortal may enjoy the moil 
intimate familiarities with thefe gentle fpirits. Pope. 
“ Too much Familiarity breeds contempt.”—The 
French fay, Familiarite engendre me'pris. The Italians, La 
troppa famigliarita genera difprezzo. Too much familiarity 
often leads unwarily to the difeovery of private matters, 
which, upon every interruption of friend (hip, are liable to 
be turned to our difadvantage. But of all familiarity, 
that w ith fervants or inferiors lays men open to the greateft 
inconvenience and difgrace. 
To FAMl'LI ARIZE, v. a. [familiarifer , Fr. ] To make 
familiar; to make eafy by habitude; to make common. 
To bring down from a date of didant ftiperiority.—The 
genius fmiled upon me with a look ofcompaffion and affa¬ 
bility that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once 
difpelled all fear and apprehenfions. Addifon. 
FAMl'LI ARLY, adj. Unceremonioudy; with free¬ 
dom like that of long acquaintance.—He talks as familiarly 
of John of Gaunt as if he had been fworn brother to him ; 
and I’ll be fworn he never faw him but once in the Tilt- 
yard, and then he broke his head. Shakefpeare. —Com¬ 
monly ; frequently ; with the unconcernednefs or eafinefs 
of long cudom.—Leffer mids and fogs than thofe which 
covered Greece with fo long darknefs, do familiarly pre- 
fent our' fenfes with as great alterations in the fun and 
moon. Raleigh .—Eafily ; without folemnity; without for¬ 
mality : 
Horace dill charms with graceful negligence, 
And without method talks us into fenfe ; 
Will, like a friend, familiarly convey 
The trued notions in the eafied way. Pope. 
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FAM'ILTST,/ - . One of the feft of the family of love, 
FAMIL'LE, [^en famille, Fr.] In a family way; do- 
medically : 
Deluded mortals, whom the great 
Chufe for companions tete-a-tete ; 
Who at their dinners en famille , 
Get leave to fit whene’er you will. Swift. 
F AM'ILY, f. \_familia, Lat. famille, Fr.] Thofe who 
live in the fame houfe ; houfehold.—The night made 
little imprefiion on myfelf, but 1 cannot anfwer for my 
whole family. Swift. —Thofe that defeend from one com¬ 
mon progenitor ; a race ; a tribe ; a generation.—Of 
Gerfhon was the family of the Libnites. Numbers. —-A. 
courfe of defeent; a genealogy : 
If thy ancient but ignoble blood 
Has crept through fcoundrels ever fince the flood, 
Go and complain thy family is young, 
Nor own thy fathers have been fools fo long. Pope. 
A clafs; a tribe; a fpecies.—There be two great families 
of things, fulphureous and mercurial, inflammable and 
not inflammable, mature and crude, oily and watry. Bacon. 
FAM'ILY LAKE, a lake of North America. Lat. 
52. 35. N. Ion. 93. 20. W. Greenwich. 
FAM'ILY OF LOVE, a Left which fprang up about 
the year 1356, followers of H. Nicholas, whofe chief te¬ 
net was, that Chrid was already come to judgment. 
FAM'INE, f. [ famine , Fr. fames, Lat.] Scarcity of 
food ; dearth ; didrefs for want of victuals.— Famines have 
been of late obferved to be rare, partly becaufe of the 
indudry of mankind, partly by thofe fupplies that come 
by fea, and principally by the goodnefs ol God. Hale. 
Our cadle’s drength 
Will laugh a liege to fcorn: here let them lie, 
’Till famine and the ague eat them up. Shakefpeare. 
FAM'INE, or Famene, a fmall country of the Nether¬ 
lands, in the wedern part of the duchy of Luxemburg, 
on the borders of the bifiiopric of Liege: the principal 
towns are Marche and Roche. 
FAM'INE (Port), a bay at the extremity of South 
America, in the Straits of Magellan, on the coad of Pa¬ 
tagonia, with the remains of a drong fortrefs, wherein a 
whole Spaniffi garrilon peridied for want; lince which 
it has been neglefted. Lat. 53. 43. N. Ion. 71. 26. W. 
Greenwich. 
To FAM'ISH, v.a. [from fantes, Lat. famis,old French.] 
To kill with hunger; to darve ; to dedroy by want of 
food.—What, did he marry me to famijh me? Shakefpeare. 
The pains of famifid Tantalus he’ll feel. 
And Sifiphus, that labours up the hill 
The rolling rock in vain ; and curd Ixion’s wheel. Dryden. 
To kill by deprivation or denial of any thing neceffary to 
life. Milton ufes it with of: 
Thin air 
Above the clouds will pine his entrails grofs, 
And famifii him e/'breath if not of bread. Milton. 
To FAM'ISH, v.a. To die of hunger; to fuffer ex¬ 
treme hunger.—You are all refolved rather to die than 
to famifk. Shakefpeare. 
FAM'ISHMENT, f. The pain of hunger; want of 
food: 
Apicius, thou did’d on thy gut bedow 
Full ninety millions ; yet, when this was fpent. 
Ten millions dill remain’d to thee ; which thou. 
Fearing to fuffer third and famifiment, 
In poilon’d portion drank’d. 
FA'MOSED, adj. Famous : 
About his fide a thoufand feaguls bred. 
The mevy and the halcyon famoftd 
For colours rare. 
FAMO'SITY, f. Renown; celebrity. 
Hakcwill. 
W. Browne. 
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