All 3 Uses of
acquaint
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.†
Chpt 1.5acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always—as on the trial—evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away.†
Chpt 2.4unacquainted = 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.
- He was well acquainted, more-over, with the circumstances of his country, and those were of ever-growing interest.†
Chpt 2.10 *acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with