Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Familiar
familiar, adj. [OFr] (webplay: acquainted, bring, distant, easy, formed, friend, lived, man, manner, not, person, scenes, smiled).
- Acclimated; habituated; accustomed.
- Native; well-known; customary; ordinary; typical; not foreign; proximate; contiguous; close to home.
- Comfortable; at ease; willing to cope; able to endure.
- Human; mortal; tangible; finite; physical; temporal; transient.
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