forisfamiliate means To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
FORISFAMILIATE — [Verb] To renounce or be put in possession of a portion of a paternal estate, thereby excluding oneself or being excluded from any further claim to the inheritance. From Medieval Latin forisfamiliatus, past participle of forisfamiliare, from Latin foris ("outside") + familia ("family, household"), thus meaning "to put outside the family" in terms of inheritance rights. Unlike disinherit, a punitive stripping of all rights, or emancipate, a broad severance of authority, to forisfamiliate is to conclude a formal, financial excision. It is the heavy iron key to a modest farmhouse given and accepted, the deliberate closing of the oak door on future portraits, and the particular quiet of a name being struck from the ledger—a ritual where freedom is purchased with a portion of one’s own blood.
verb
- To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
- Of a father: to put (a son or daughter) in possession of land which the son or daughter accepts as their whole portion of the father's property.