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FAMILY

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 159 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAMILY  , a word of which the

etymology but partially illustrates the meaning . The
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Roman familia, derived from the Oscan famel (serous), originally signified the servile
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property, the thralls, of a master . Next, the
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term denoted other domestic property, in things as well as in persons .

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