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Familʹiar Spirits

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Spirit slaves. From the Latin, famʹulus (an attendant).

“Away with him! he has a familiar under his tongue.”—Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iv. 7.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fall Upon One’s Feet (To)
Falling Bands
Falling Sickness
Falling Stars
Fallow Land
False (The Rule of)
False Ceiling
Falstaff
Falutin (High)
Familiar
Familiar Spirits
Familiarity
Familists
Family
Fan
Fan-light (A)
Fanatic
Fancy
Fancy-free
Fancy Man (A)
Fancy-sick

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Familiar Spirits