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Familial

adjective

Relating to or having the characteristics of a family. "Familial aggregation"

Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity. Synonyms: genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmissible, transmitted. "Familial traits" , "Genetically transmitted features"

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"Familial" Quotes from Famous Books

... which Sir Henry Maine described so well, but which he mistakenly supposed to be the first great type of familial association, placed firmly at the centres of social order the power and responsibility of the man. Doubtless that power and responsibility drew their chief sanction from the idea of man as the real source of being. After man learned that ...

— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer

... Muslims worldwide, and its distinguishing feature is its reverence for Ali as an infallible, divinely inspired leader, and as the first Imam of the Muslim community after Muhammad. A majority of Shia are known as "Twelvers," because they believe that the 11 familial successor imams after Muhammad culminate in a 12th Imam (al-Mahdi) who is hidden in the world and will reappear at its ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... especially remarkable: fifteen-year-old Emmeline, alone in the jungle, loses consciousness and awakes to find a baby boy on the ground near her. Naming the boy Hannah (an example of Stacpoole's penchant for gender reversals), the Lestranges live in familial bliss until they are unexpectedly expelled ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole