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Quotation dates: 1576-1609, 1685-1686
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Forisfamiliat(e, v. [f. med. L. forisfamiliare.] tr. To separate from the father's family; to provide beforehand for (a son or daughter). — 1576 Edinburgh Testaments IV. 355.
[He] levis to … his dochter the soum of thrie hundreth merkis … in cais he inlaik … befoir he salhappin to forisfamiliat hir 1609 Ib. XLVI 30 b.
I haue alreddie at sindrie tymes benefitit my bairnes … and hes sufficientlie forisfamiliat thame a1686 Turner Mem. 213.
The woman was not forisfamiliated
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