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Quotation dates: 1574-1686
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Forisfamiliat, -iate, p.p. [med. L. forisfamiliatus.] Of a son or daughter: Separated from the father's family by marriage, living elsewhere, or by having received a separate share of property before the father's decease. 1574 Edinburgh Testaments III. 183.
Tua lauchfull bairnes of the said vmquhile Thomas … vnprouidit nor forisfamiliat 1585 Misc. Spald. C. II. 342.
My wther barnis … ar wther wayes alreddie sufficientlie provydit and forisfamiliat 1592 Edinburgh Testaments XXIV. 135.
The sowmes … to be equallie distributit be his said spous to his domestick sounes nocht forisfamiliat 1605 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 297.
Be rasoun the burges dochteris mareit be tham wer mareit of biefoir and forisfamiliat 1646 Gen. Assembly I. 124.
The sin and dangerous consequences of marieing persons not forisfamiliat a1686 Turner Mem. 208.
Fineing fathers for their daughters baptiseing children by outed ministers, thogh forisfamiliate six months before
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