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单词 family meeting
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family meetingn.

Brit. /ˌfam(ᵻ)lɪ ˈmiːtɪŋ/, /ˌfaml̩ɪ ˈmiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌfæm(ə)li ˈmidɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: family n., meeting n.
Etymology: < family n. + meeting n. Compare family council n.
1. A meeting or gathering of members of a family, (now) esp. in order to resolve problems.
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family meeting1638
panegyris1647
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collegea1703
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panegyre1757
plenum1772
family council1797
coterie1805
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GA1844
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hui1858
primary1859
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mothers' meeting1865
sit-down1868
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con1940
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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.
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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).
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