All 14 Uses of
acquaint
in
Great Expectations
- "It were but lonesome then," said Joe, "living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister.†
p. 48.9acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- When I got acquainted with your sister, it were the talk how she was bringing you up by hand.†
p. 49.4 *
- I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.†
p. 54.2
- I am not acquainted with this country, gentlemen, but it seems a solitary country towards the river.†
p. 79.5
- You are well acquainted with it now?†
p. 179.9
- When she was dead, I apprehend he first told his daughter what he had done, and then the son became a part of the family, residing in the house you are acquainted with.†
p. 188.8
- They allowed a very liberal table to Mr. and Mrs. Pocket, yet it always appeared to me that by far the best part of the house to have boarded in would have been the kitchen,—always supposing the boarder capable of self-defence, for, before I had been there a week, a neighboring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say that she had seen Millers slapping the baby.†
p. 199.4unacquainted = not familiar withstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unacquainted means not and reverses the meaning of acquainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- After dinner a bottle of choice old port was placed before my guardian (he was evidently well acquainted with the vintage), and the two ladies left us.†
p. 255.8acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- At Epsom races, a matter of over twenty years ago, I got acquainted wi' a man whose skull I'd crack wi' this poker, like the claw of a lobster, if I'd got it on this hob.†
p. 367.6
- You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.†
p. 386.4
- You are acquainted with the young lady, most probably?†
p. 393.6
- I feel a particular interest in being acquainted with it.†
p. 416.2
- We had not yet made any allusion to my change of fortune, nor did I know how much of my late history he was acquainted with.†
p. 498.6
- He knows your character, Joseph, and is well acquainted with your pig-headedness and ignorance; and he knows my character, Joseph, and he knows my want of gratitoode.†
p. 507.5
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with