a. Obs. rare–1. [f. L. type *familiāri-us, f. familia: see FAMILY and -ARY2.] Pertaining to the control of a family; domestic.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xxi. It pleas’d God to make him [Henry VIII.] see all the tyranny of Rome, by discovering this which they exercis’d over divorce; and to make him the beginner of a reformation to this whole Kingdom by first asserting into his familiary power the right of just divorce.
