familiary

English

Etymology

From Latin familiaris. See familiar.

Adjective

familiary (comparative more familiary, superlative most familiary)

1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
   • 1645, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

     Yet it pleas'd God to make him see all the tyrrany of Rome, by discovering this which they exercis'd over divorce; and to make him the beginner of a reformation to this whole Kingdom by first asserting into his familiary power the right of just divorce.

   • 1900, Joseph Collins, The Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System, page 302:

     The familiary or hereditary variety of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis is of comparatively recent recognition.

   • 1909, Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Bulletin - Saint Elizabeths Hospital - Issues 1-5, page 97:

     In many of these cases the disease appeared in familiary form, affecting three to five members of the family, at ages varying from 13 to 20 years.

   • 1999, European Consortium for Church-State Research, New religious movements and the law in the European Union, page 72:

     Because of their doctrine and practice respectively their roots in familiary bonds the Alevi are not problematic in social life or in legal respect.

2. Misspelling of familiar.
   • 1880, J. Edwin Danelson, Dr. Danelson's Counselor with Recipes, page 222:

     Not to mention the dire effects in somewhat later years of drunkenness in the parent—which expresses itself in the child as it grows up, in the form of epilepsy, idiocy, mania and dipsomania (habitual drunkenness) —it is familiary to us medical practitioners that the children of drunkards are prone to hydrocephalus (water on the brain), convulsions, and a whole tribe of diseases of a low type, showing general degeneracy and a predisposition to brain mischief.

   • 1892, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York:

     I am fairly familiary with the political complexion of the municipal assembly .

   • 1911, Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution:

     This question may have a strange sound in these days when the ears of men and women are filled with another and more familiary cry — the cry for rights, the cry for increased opportunities, the cry for more and ever more power — political, social, and economic.

Adverb

familiary (comparative more familiary, superlative most familiary)

1. Misspelling of familiarly.
   • 1839, Francis Bisset Hawkins, Germany, page 112:

     These were almost all written in Latin, which appears to have been almost a second tongue, used familiary in conversation, and still more familiary in composition.

   • 1888, Maunsell Van Rensselaer, Annals of the Van Rensselaers in the United States, page 59:

     In this mansion the front room on the first floor was "the office," in which, as I recollect it, my grandfather might generally be found seated in quiet dignity, reading or conversing with a visitor, who had come in familiary to see him and have a friendly chat.

   • 1910, Industrial and Material Growth of the Negroes of Pennsylvania, page 85:

     One of the most successful business men of Harrisburg among the colored people is C. W. Strothers, familiary known as Colonel.

   • 1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing, Housing and Community Development Legislation--1973, page 1945:

     In 1938, the Federal National Mortgage Association ( familiary known as Fannie Ma ) was created to fill this gap in the housing credit market.

   • 2011, Munayem Mayenin, Baanglara My Bangla Tutor, page 161:

     Main Bangl verbs are often pretty regular but the learner must, unlike English, be aware of the status of the subjects, as in whether the subject is referred formally or familiary or very familiary (which can also be used to derogate as well) though person or numbers do not impact on the verbs.