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Definition
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with
- Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home.Book 1 (1% in)
- Still, if he really is Ulysses come back to his own home again, we shall get to understand one another better by and by, for there are tokens with which we two are alone acquainted, and which are hidden from all others.Book 23 (31% in)
There are no more uses of "acquaint" in The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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