Subject: Familiar
From: tarr-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (michael tarr)
Date: 1990-11-04, 19:41
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

1 fa.mil.iar \f<e>-'mil-y<e>r\ n (13c)
    1: a member of the household of a high official
    2: an intimate associate: COMPANION
    3: a spirit often embodied in an animal and held to attend and serve 
    or guard a person
    4a: one who is well acquainted with something
    4b: one who frequents a place

2 familiar adj (14c)
 [ME familier, fr. MF, fr. L familiaris, fr. familia]
    1: closely acquainted: INTIMATE <a familiar family friend> 
    2 obs: AFFABLE, SOCIABLE
    3a: of or relating to a family <remembering past familiar celebrations> 
    
    3b: frequented by families <a familiar resort> 
    4a : being free and easy <the familiar association of old friends> 
    
    4b: marked by informality <a familiar essay> 
    4c: overly free and unrestrained: PRESUMPTUOUS <grossly familiar behavior> 
    
    4d: moderately tame <familiar animals> 
    5a: frequently seen or experienced: easily recognized
    5b: of everyday occurrence
    6: closely acquainted through personal knowledge or study <familiar 
    with the facts of the case> -- fa.mil.iar.ly adv -- fa.mil.iar.ness 
    n 
syn FAMILIAR, INTIMATE mean closely acquainted. FAMILIAR suggests the ease, 
informality, absence of reserve or constraint natural among members of 
a family or acquaintances of long standing; INTIMATE stresses the closeness 
and intensity rather than the mere frequency of personal association and 
suggests either deep mutual understanding or the sharing of deeply personal 
thoughts and feelings. syn see in addition COMMON




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