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Definition of Familiarly
1. Adverb. In an intimately familiar manner. "Sid, as he was familiarly known by his friends, was one of the most respected and devoted members of the socialist minority group"
Definition of Familiarly
1. adv. In a familiar manner.
Definition of Familiarly
1. Adverb. In a familiar manner ¹
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Definition of Familiarly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Familiarly
Literary usage of Familiarly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... AHD FELLOW CHRISTIANS, О familiarly USED BY THE ADVOCATE, FOR ТЯ« REPEAL OF
THE TEST-ACT Id IRELAND, 1733. N inundation, says the fable ..."
2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"Consequently, she was familiarly acquainted with his opium habits; and on my
asking, in reply to some remark of hers, how she could be so sure as her words ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"She had drawn up for her own use an epitome of oriental history, and familiarly
compared the beauties of Homer and Plato under the tuition of the sublime ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"All pencilled, and, in the ease of the Porters, de. signated familiarly as Robert,
Maria, or Jane, as if it was the family copy. I now come to my Query. ..."
5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"... he was familiarly known as "Father Heinrich " and rated as a " fanática per
la música." His later compositions were orchestral, and of an ambitious kind ..."
6. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The public men who are familiarly known as Tom this or Steve that may be "good
fellows" and friends of the boys, but they are politicians and not statesmen. ..."
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