All 7 Uses of
acquaint
in
The Magic Mountain
- Since then, shortly before her recent departure, in fact, I've had the chance to become personally acquainted with her.†
Chpt 6.1 *acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
- And one day they become acquainted, find they like one another, but at the same time it turns out one party is about to leave.†
Chpt 6.1
- He seemed in the best of moods and wittily helped all three get better acquainted—calling Naphta a "princeps scholasticorum," for example.†
Chpt 6.2
- I live under the same roof with the gentleman, it was inevitable that we would meet, that one thing would lead to another, that we would become acquainted.†
Chpt 6.3
- In warning you about this man, with whom I have unwillingly made you acquainted, in demanding that you gird yourselves three times round with a critical spirit when you are dealing with him and discussing things, I do so because all his thoughts are of lust; they stand under the aegis of death, a most depraved force— just as I told you that day, my good engineer, I very clearly recall using that phrase, for I always keep in mind useful and apt words I have used on occasion—a most depraved force directed against morals, progress, labor, and life.†
Chpt 6.3
- With only two of his tablemates was he acquainted more personally.†
Chpt 6.5
- The soldier sang about a flower that Carmen had tossed him when they first became acquainted and that had been his sole comfort in prison, where he had found himself on her account.†
Chpt 7.7
Definition:
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with