Part 4161

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An attendant demon or evil spirit.</def>

<i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Court of Inquisition)</fld> <def>A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.</def>

<h1>Familiarity</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fa*mil`iar"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Familiarities</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[OE. <ets>familarite</ets>, F. <ets>familiarit\'82</ets>fr. L. <ets>faniliaritas</ets>. See <er>Familiar</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; <as>as, to live in remarkable <ex>familiarity</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the <pluf>pl.</pluf>, such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Acquaintance; fellowship; affability; intimacy. See <er>Acquaintance</er>.</syn>

<h1>Familiarization</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fa*mil`iar*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; <as>as, <ex>familiarization</ex> with scenes of blood</as>.</def>

<h1>Familiarize</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fa*mil"iar*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Familiarized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Familiarizing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>familiariser</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; <as>as, to <ex>familiarize</ex> one's self with scenes of distress</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; <as>as, to <ex>familiarize</ex> one's self with a business, a book, or a science</as>.</def>

<h1>Familiarly</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fa"mil"iar*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a familiar manner.</def>

<h1>Familiarness</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fa*mil"iar*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Familiarity.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Familiary</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fa*mil"ia*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>familiaris</ets>. See <er>Familiar</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Familism</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fam"i*lism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The tenets of the Familists.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Familist</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fam"i*list</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Family</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the <i>Family of Love</i>, who held that religion consists wholly in love.</def>

<h1>Familistery</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw>Fam"i*lis*ter*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Familisteries</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>. <ety>[F. <ets>familist\'8are</ets>.]</ety> <def>A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.</def>

<h1>Familistic, Familistical</h1> <Xpage=541>

<hw><hw>Fam`i*listic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Fam`i*lis"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to Familists.</def>