All 3 Uses
acquaint
in
The Comedy of Errors
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- If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?†
Scene 3.2acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- As if I were their well-acquainted friend;
Scene 4.3 *acquainted = known well
- Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits, On purpose shut the doors against his way.†
Scene 4.3acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)