forisfamiliate

English

Etymology

Late Latin forisfamiliatus, past participle of forisfamiliare (“to forisfamiliate”).

Verb

forisfamiliate (third-person singular simple present forisfamiliates, present participle forisfamiliating, simple past and past participle forisfamiliated)

1. (intransitive, law, obsolete) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
2. (transitive, law, obsolete) Of a father: to put (a son or daughter) in possession of land which the son or daughter accepts as their whole portion of the father's property.

Derived terms

• forisfamiliation

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “forisfamiliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)