单词 | family meeting |
释义 | family meetingn. 1. A meeting or gathering of members of a family, (now) esp. in order to resolve problems. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1638 W. Gouge in R. Bolton Certaine Devout Prayers To Rdr. sig. A8v Away with publick assemblies for prayer: away with family meetings to call upon God. 1680 A. Paterson in Testimony of John Matern 12 About Four hours before he departed, we kept our Family Meeting in the room where he Lay. 1759 Scots Mag. Jan. 22/2 The Countess, his wife, assisted at the family-meeting held on the morrow. 1787 L. Lyons tr. Marquise d'Epinay Conversat. Emily I. x. 274 The story I shall tell you, is so short, that it will not make any great figure in our family meeting. 1809 Belfast Monthly Mag. Dec. 425/2 I must conquer sleep, stifle my yawns, hide my ennui—I must listen! This is what my aunt calls our little family meetings. 1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 11/2 A family meeting where both parties..have a squabbly bargain. 1979 J. D. Block To marry Again v. 89 At one point, we started to have family meetings to talk things out. That helped. 2001 Sun 27 Jan. (TV Mag.) 5/4 Susan comes back to take charge of the situation by organising a clear-the-air family meeting. 2. North American. Civil Law. In Louisiana (occasionally also Quebec): an advisory jury aiding the court in a family law matter. Cf. family council n. 2. Now historical. ΚΠ 1803 Digest Civil Laws Territory of Orleans iii. 186 To exercise the action of partition in behalf of minors or persons interdicted, it is necessary that their tutors or curators be authorised thereto by the judge, upon the advice of a family meeting. 1839 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. I. 400/2 The appointment of the members of the family meeting is made by the judge. 1906 W. F. Woerner in W. Mack Cycl. Law & Procedure XXI. 32 In the province of Quebec if the family meeting duly summoned refuses to give advice on the opportunity of having a curator appointed to an emancipated minor the judge or court may make such appointment. 2009 L. Langley et al. in J. Allured & J. F. Gentry Louisiana Women 165 The court extended invitations to the family meeting to five Coushatta men but no women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638 |
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