familiarly, adv.
(fəˈmɪlɪəlɪ)
[f. familiar a. + -ly2.]
In a familiar manner.
† 1. After the manner of a domesticated animal.
| 1550 Thomas Ital. Gram., Domesticamente, familiarely or homely. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 101 Ptolomeus Philadelphe..having a hinde-calf..brought it so familiarly tame, that [etc.]. 1651 W. G. tr. Cowel's Inst. 59 If any shall happen to be made tame, and by custome goe familiarly in and out. |
2. Like one who has an intimate acquaintance (with either persons or things); intimately.
| 14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 162 Familierly taghte of þe holy goste. 1548 Hall Chron. 66 The kyng of England..them honorably embraced and familierly kissed. 1675 Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 231 Great Minos..used with great Chronides Familiarly of old to sit and chat. 1748 Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. 287 Two ill Men can scarce become known to each other familiarly. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 113 Lord Chancellor Bacon..was familiarly acquainted with all the secrets of personal influence. 1865 Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 169/2 The..desirableness of doctors or lawyers being brought more familiarly together. |
† b. In a bad sense: With undue freedom. Obs.
| 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 68 Her whom his aged father..had too familiarly vsed. |
3. As an every-day matter or matter of course; commonly, usually. Obs. exc. with words implying knowledge.
| 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 226 Using themselves familiarly to such foule enormities. 1621–51 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. iii. 77 There be..too that familiarly drink Sea⁓water. 1674 Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. iv. 178 The familiarly visible stars. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. III. 202 Scenes with which he was familiarly conversant. 1879 Cassells Techn. Educ. I. 207 The form of crane..most familiarly known is that which is called the jib-crane. |
† b. In every-day language or manner, easily.
| 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 69 These two places, which I haue..familiarly..expounded. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 266 More..perspicuously..and familiarly..expressed by them. c 1660 J. Harrington Valerius & Publ. To Rdr. (1700) 475 There is nothing..I so much desire as to be familiarly understood. |
4. Without ceremony, in a free and easy manner, unceremoniously.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. v. 42 He..wyth þame spak famylyarly. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 810 [The Duke] exhorted him familierly..to say whatsoever he thought. 1678 Dryden Limberham v. i, We'll banish all Pomp and Ceremony, and live familiarly together. 1712 Tickell Spect. No. 410 ¶1 She saluted him very familiarly by his Name. 1821 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Valentine's Day, Our familiarly pious ancestors. 1875 T. W. Higginson U.S. Hist. viii. 56 Called familiarly by the name of ‘Pilgrims’. |