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Familiar
FAMIL'IAR, a. famil'yar. [L. familiaris, familia, family, which see.]
1. Pertaining to a family; domestic.
2. Accustomed by frequent converse; well acquainted with; intimate; close; as a familiar friend or companion.
3. Affable; not formal or distant; easy in conversation.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
4. Well acquainted with; knowing by frequent use. Be familiar with the scriptures.
5. Well known; learned or well understood by frequent use. Let the scriptures be familiar to us.
6. Unceremonious; free; unconstrained; easy. The emperor conversed with the gentleman in the most familiar manner.
7. Common; frequent and intimate. By familiar intercourse, strong attachments are soon formed.
8. Easy; unconstrained; not formal. His letters are written in a familiar style.
He sports in loose familiar strains.
9. Intimate in an unlawful degree.
A poor man found a priest familiar with his wife.
FAMIL'IAR, n.
1. An intimate; a close companion; one long acquainted; one accustomed to another by free, unreserved converse.
All my familiars watched for my halting. Jer 20.
2. A demon or evil spirit supposed to attend at a call. But in general we say, a familiar spirit.
3. In the court of Inquisition, a person who assists in apprehending and imprisoning the accused.
familiar appears in definitions for these words:
Absent Accostable Accustom Accustomed Accustoming Acquaint Acquaintance Acquainted Admire Baby Beau Believe Bellyful Berth Bombast Bonny Bounce Bouncer Bribe Chat Chatting Chief Chit Chit-chat Commerce Commune Communication Communing Confabulate Confabulation Confabulatory Confamiliar Confer Consulter Conversant Conversation Converse Coy Coyly Coyness Crony Crusty Cup Custom Dead Dignified Disaccustom Disaccustomed Disacquaintance Discourse Disinure Displeasure Disreputable Domesticate Door Eke Enthusiasm Epistle Epistolary Estrange Expert Extremely Familiar Familiarity Familiarize Familiarly Fellowship Fleshing Freedom Friend Gaffer Girl Good Goodman Great Habituate Habituated Habituating Habitude Hand Handle Hanker Hobnob Homiletic Homily Immodest Inconversant Intimacy Intimate Intimately Intrinsic Inward Inwardness Know Lief Mamma Man Mightily Mother Name Naturalize Naturalized Negboor Neighbor Neighborly New Newness Now Obversant Pall Peep-hole Peer Popular Prefer Prodigiously Proselyte Proxy Pug Queerness Really Rote Shoulder-clapper Shy Shyly Shyness Sit Skill Skilled Skittish Sociability Sociable Sociableness Sociably Sonorous Soul Stiff Strange Suds Tack Talk Talking Tame Teach Thine Thou Though Truepenny Unaccustomed Unacquaintance Unacquainted Unconversant Uncouth Uncouthness Unfamiliarity Unpracticed Untamed Unwonted Use Vengeance Venial Villain We Wonted You
Absent Accostable Accustom Accustomed Accustoming Acquaint Acquaintance Acquainted Admire Baby Beau Believe Bellyful Berth Bombast Bonny Bounce Bouncer Bribe Chat Chatting Chief Chit Chit-chat Commerce Commune Communication Communing Confabulate Confabulation Confabulatory Confamiliar Confer Consulter Conversant Conversation Converse Coy Coyly Coyness Crony Crusty Cup Custom Dead Dignified Disaccustom Disaccustomed Disacquaintance Discourse Disinure Displeasure Disreputable Domesticate Door Eke Enthusiasm Epistle Epistolary Estrange Expert Extremely Familiar Familiarity Familiarize Familiarly Fellowship Fleshing Freedom Friend Gaffer Girl Good Goodman Great Habituate Habituated Habituating Habitude Hand Handle Hanker Hobnob Homiletic Homily Immodest Inconversant Intimacy Intimate Intimately Intrinsic Inward Inwardness Know Lief Mamma Man Mightily Mother Name Naturalize Naturalized Negboor Neighbor Neighborly New Newness Now Obversant Pall Peep-hole Peer Popular Prefer Prodigiously Proselyte Proxy Pug Queerness Really Rote Shoulder-clapper Shy Shyly Shyness Sit Skill Skilled Skittish Sociability Sociable Sociableness Sociably Sonorous Soul Stiff Strange Suds Tack Talk Talking Tame Teach Thine Thou Though Truepenny Unaccustomed Unacquaintance Unacquainted Unconversant Uncouth Uncouthness Unfamiliarity Unpracticed Untamed Unwonted Use Vengeance Venial Villain We Wonted You
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