unacquainted

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English acquainted English unacquainted From un- + acquainted.

1. Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).

   “The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege.”

   “1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26, […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]”

2. Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.

   “Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright, Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare, She greatly grew amazed at the sight, And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:”

   “[…] [we] fill up Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep Upon the spot of this enforced cause,— To grace the gentry of a land remote, And follow unacquainted colours here?”