All 8 Uses of
acquaint
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Pray pardon me, then," said the gentleman, bowing and smiling, as Phoebe never had been bowed to nor smiled on before; "in that case, we must be better acquainted; for, unless I am sadly mistaken, you are my own little kinswoman likewise!†
Chpt 8acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- we must be better acquainted!†
Chpt 8 *
- Phoebe, after getting well acquainted with the old hen, was sometimes permitted to take the chicken in her hand, which was quite capable of grasping its cubic inch or two of body.†
Chpt 10
- At length, something was said by Holgrave that made it apposite for Phoebe to inquire what had first brought him acquainted with her cousin Hepzibah, and why he now chose to lodge in the desolate old Pyncheon House.†
Chpt 12
- As one method of throwing it off, I have put an incident of the Pyncheon family history, with which I happen to be acquainted, into the form of a legend, and mean to publish it in a magazine.†
Chpt 12
- Now, Colonel Pyncheon, I need hardly say, was a practical man, well acquainted with public and private business, and not at all the person to cherish ill-founded hopes, or to attempt the following out of an impracticable scheme.†
Chpt 13
- Presented at the door, it would have been a symbol of his right to enter, and be made acquainted with all the secrets of the house.†
Chpt 19
- There are a hundred chances to one that no person, unacquainted with the secret, would ever touch this spring.†
Chpt 21unacquainted = 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.
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with