All 4 Uses of
acquaint
in
Measure for Measure
- I pr'ythee, Lucio, do me this kind service: This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation: Acquaint her with the danger of my state; Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him; I have great hope in that: for in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade.†
Scene 1.3
- Master Froth, I would not have you acquainted with tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you will hang them.†
Scene 2.1 *
- ] I pray you be acquainted with this maid; She comes to do you good.†
Scene 4.1
- I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession: one would think it were Mistress Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old customers.†
Scene 4.3
Definition:
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(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with