The action of forisfamiliating (a son); also transf.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 25. I risqued a subaqueous voyage, a total interruption of reciprocal respiration, a comminution of life, in curt, a forisfamiliation out of the universe.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, iii. My father could not be serious in the sentence of forisfamiliation, which he had so unhesitatingly pronounced;—it must be but a trial of my disposition, which, endured with patience and steadiness on my part, would raise me in his estimation, and lead to an amicable accommodation of the point in dispute between us.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Lit., III. iv. § 99. 399. In children we are to consider three periods; that of imperfect judgment, or infancy, that of adult age in the father’s family, and that of emancipation or foris-familiation, when they have ceased to form a part of it.
