acquaint
IPA: ʌkwˈeɪnt
verb
- (transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
- (transitive, archaic, followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
- (transitive, obsolete) To familiarize; to accustom.
adjective
- (now chiefly Scotland) Acquainted.
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Examples of "acquaint" in Sentences
- They are acquainted to one another.
- He was an acquaintance of the caretaker.
- He should be acquainted with the policy.
- Pleased to make your acquaintance Ma'am.
- I should acquaint myself with the statistics.
- I am not acquainted with the melody of the song.
- The Romans were well acquainted with the region.
- He became the acquaintance of the renowned writer.
- He became acquainted with the ideals of the revolution.
- It is too difficult to get acquainted with the numbers.
- "acquaint" when Duke did not stand quite so high in favour.
- 48 But he answered It is not that I wish: I would fain acquaint thee with my true story.
- I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your
- Hall, where the Board waited on the Duke of York to discourse about the disposing of Sir Thomas Allen's fleete, which is newly come home to Portsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the late
- With me, the "firm conviction" is a matter of "circumstantial evidence," supported by analogy, and fortified by empirical testimony, such as acquaint the world with the facts and findings of science, and which I think admit of no other consistent and rational interpretation.
- I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your Grace, and give him the soume of 3400 merks for his loss and damages sustained by him, both at Craigrostown and at his house,
- Portsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, which the Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers for the time to come.
- They at dinner before I come; and, when I had dined, I away home, and thence to White Hall, where the Board waited on the Duke of York to discourse about the disposing of Sir Thomas Allen's fleete, which is newly come home to Portsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, which the Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is already done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forth some good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers for the time to come.