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ACQUAINTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having fair knowledge of
Example:
fully acquainted with the facts
Classified under:
Similar:
familiar (well known or easily recognized)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb acquaint
Context examples:
Mr. Eyre mentioned the intelligence; for he knew that my client here was acquainted with a gentleman of the name of Rochester.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It just happened, however, that this hour coincided with Blessington’s constitutional, which seems to show that they were not very well acquainted with his daily routine.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
"I am so glad we are got acquainted at last," continued Charlotte.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But, if these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms, they would soon change their opinion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Acquainted with knowledge of a subject.
(Informed, NCI Thesaurus)
That a man of the world, five-and-forty years of age, shrewd, honest, and acquainted with Courts, should be beguiled by such crude and coarse homage, amazed me, as it did all who knew him; but you who have seen much of life do not need to be told how often the strongest and noblest nature has its one inexplicable weakness, showing up the more obviously in contrast to the rest, as the dark stain looks the fouler upon the whitest sheet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I must explain first,” said McFarlane, “that I knew nothing of Mr. Jonas Oldacre. His name was familiar to me, for many years ago my parents were acquainted with him, but they drifted apart.”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Good Heaven, Mr. Traddles! said Mr. Micawber, to think that I should find you acquainted with the friend of my youth, the companion of earlier days!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
True, true, you are acquainted with Miss Fairfax; I remember you knew her at Weymouth, and a fine girl she is.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
