All 3 Uses of
acquaint
in
Of Human Bondage
- He lent them willingly; and Philip became acquainted with Flaubert and Balzac, with Verlaine, Heredia, and Villiers de l'Isle Adam.†
Chpt 43-44 *acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- Lawson would become acquainted with some young thing and make an appointment; for twenty-four hours he would be all in a flutter and describe the charmer at length to everyone he met; but she never by any chance turned up at the time fixed.†
Chpt 43-44
- The most substantial part consisted of women from the smaller manufacturing towns, who were too elegant to have their frocks made locally and not sufficiently acquainted with London to discover good dressmakers within their means.†
Chpt 107-108
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with