acquaint
verb
- know informally
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈkweɪnt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English aqueynten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Early Medieval Latin accognitāre, from Late Latin accognitus, past participle of accognoscō, from Latin cognoscō, from nōscō. See also quaint, know.
- Acquainted.
“[I]f you have skimmed through even a paragraph of my poor neglected little magnum opus you will know I am unusually acquaint with my inner workings.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English aqueynten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Early Medieval Latin accognitāre, from Late Latin accognitus, past participle of accognoscō, from Latin cognoscō, from nōscō. See also quaint, know.
- To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
“I think you should acquaint him with the realities of the situation.”
“He is despised and reiected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefe: and we hid as it were our faces from him; hee was despised, and wee esteemed him not.”
- To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
“Acquaint her here, of my Sonne Paris Loue,”
“I muſt acquaint you, that I haue recciu'd New-dated Letters from Northumberland:”
- To familiarize; to accustom.
“October 2 1642, Isaac Basire, letter to John Evelyn What success it may further have I shall acquaint you at my coming over”