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Familial   /fəmˈɪljəl/   Listen
Familial

adjective
1.
Relating to or having the characteristics of a family.  "Familial aggregation"
2.
Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity.  Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted.  "Familial traits" , "Genetically transmitted features"



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"Familial" Quotes from Famous Books



... especially remarkable: fifteen-year-old Emmeline, alone in the jungle, loses consciousness and awakes to find a baby boy on the ground near her. Naming the boy Hannah (an example of Stacpoole's penchant for gender reversals), the Lestranges live in familial bliss until they are unexpectedly expelled ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... which Sir Henry Maine described so well, but which he mistakenly supposed to be the first great type of familial association, placed firmly at the centres of social order the power and responsibility of the man. Doubtless that power and responsibility drew their chief sanction from the idea of man as the real source of being. After man learned that ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer


Words linked to "Familial" :   family, inheritable, heritable


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