Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FO-RIS-FA-MIL-I-A'TION
FO-RIS-FA-MIL-I-A'TION, n.
When a child has received a portion of his father's estate, and renounces all title to a further share, his act is called forisfamiliation, and he is said to be forisfamiliated. Encyc.
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