All 3 Uses of
acquaint
in
The Winter's Tale
- Please your ladyship To visit the next room, I'll presently Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer; Who but to-day hammer'd of this design, But durst not tempt a minister of honour, Lest she should be denied.†
Scene 2.2 *acquaint = inform (cause to know)
- I yield all this; But, for some other reasons, my grave sir, Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint My father of this business.†
Scene 4.4
- The prince himself is about a piece of iniquity,—stealing away from his father with his clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.†
Scene 4.4
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with