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  • English Word Familisteries Definition of Familistery
  • English Word Familistery Definition A community in which many persons unite as in one family, and are regulated by certain communistic laws and customs.
  • English Word Familistic Definition Alt. of Familistical
  • English Word Familistical Definition Pertaining to Familists.
  • English Word Family Definition The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
  • English Word Family Definition The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
  • English Word Family Definition Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
  • English Word Family Definition Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
  • English Word Family Definition Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
  • English Word Family Definition A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
  • English Word Family Definition A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
  • English Word Famine Definition General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
  • English Word Faming Definition of Fame
  • English Word Famish Definition To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
  • English Word Famish Definition To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
  • English Word Famish Definition To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
  • English Word Famish Definition To force or constrain by famine.
  • English Word Famish Definition To die of hunger; to starve.
  • English Word Famish Definition To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
  • English Word Famish Definition To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
  • English Word Famish Definition Smoky; hot; choleric.
  • English Word Famished Definition of Famish
  • English Word Famishing Definition of Famish
  • English Word Famishment Definition State of being famished.
  • English Word Famosity Definition The state or quality of being famous.
  • English Word Famous Definition Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
  • English Word Famoused Definition Renowned.
  • English Word Famously Definition In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly.
  • English Word Famousness Definition The state of being famous.
  • English Word Famular Definition Domestic; familiar.