All 5 Uses
acquaint
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- And to this service, most unhappily, And most unwillingly, am I now employ'd, Which here I thought to pre-acquaint you with, For your advice, since it concerns you most;†
Act 2acquaint = inform (cause to know)
- LADY P: Made you acquainted, what an ample dowry The knowledge of these things would be unto you, Able, alone, to get you noble husbands At your return: and you thus to neglect it!†
Act 3 *acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- Your son, I know not by what accident, Acquainted with your purpose to my patron, Touching your Will, and making him your heir, Enter'd our house with violence, his sword drawn Sought for you, call'd you wretch, unnatural, Vow'd he would kill you.†
Act 3
- I'll acquaint you, sir, I now have lived here, 'tis some fourteen months Within the first week of my landing here, All took me for a citizen of Venice: I knew the forms, so well— PER [ASIDE.]†
Act 4acquaint = inform (cause to know)
- To bring me thus acquainted with his wife!†
Act 4acquainted = 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)