Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FA-MIL'IAR-IZE
FA-MIL-IAR'I-TYFA-MIL'IAR-IZ-ED
FA-MIL'IAR-IZE, v.t.
- To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known, by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self to scenes of distress.
- To make easy by practice or customary use, or by intercourse.
- To bring down from a state of distant superiority. The genius smiled on me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination. Addison.
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