familialadj.
/fəˈmɪlɪəl/, U.S. /fəˈmɪljəl/, /fəˈmɪliəl/ 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a family.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adjective]
familial1843
nuclear1949
1843 New Age & Concordium Gaz. 1 Oct. 100 Industry individual, is good—industry familial, is better—industry communal, is best.
1891 C. Letourneau Evol. of Marriage xx. 346 The creation of familial or individual property on the ruins of the ancient common property.
1907 Daily Chron. 6 June 4/4 The parental or familial attitude towards education.
1977 J. Rechy Sexual Outlaw 245 What holds other minorities together—ready identification, familial ties—is absent from the gay minority.
2009 New Yorker 12 Oct. 93/1 Women's familial responsibilities make them less likely to embark on extremely intense professions.
2. Medicine. Occurring in different generations of a family, or in several members of the same generation; hereditary; genetic.Cf. earlier family disease n. at family n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adjective] > hereditary
familial1892
familiary1895
1892 Brain 15 278 It is about thirty years ago that Friedreich described a form of tabes which is developed on the basis of an hereditary, generic, or familial, basis.
1921 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry 5 746 Dr. McDonald thought that left-handed people were right-brained only when left-handedness was familial, and not when it was sporadic.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xviii. 259 A somewhat similar macular degeneration beginning between the ages of twelve and fourteen is seen as a rare familial disease (Stargardt's Disease).
1988 Oxf. Today 1 11 New techniques..have been used most successfully for working out the molecular basis of the common familial anaemias such as haemophilia.
2007 Independent 29 Nov. (Extra section) 5/1 He was finally diagnosed with the rare genetic disorder of fatal familial insomnia, for which there is no treatment and no cure.
3. Of or relating to a group of connected things, languages, etc. Cf. family n. II.
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1914 T. Toomey Relationships of Chitimachan Ling. Family 12 Creek and Choctaw, languages undoubtedly of familial relationship.
1953 J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. ii. 62 A technique for inferring, from statistical comparisons of language systems, estimates..of their probable familial relationships.
1996 R. Taruskin Stravinsky & Russ. Trad. I. v. 324 The Scherzo fantastique bears a decided familial resemblance to the symphony Scherzo.
2004 T. G. Oren Demon in Box 11 A foreign patron emerged, promoting a particular type of television and threatening to sever the familial ties between it and radio.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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