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t. & i. [Fr. a cointer = to become intimate; Prov. accoinder = to make known; O. Fr. coint = informed of a thing, from Low Lat. adcognito = to make known, from Lat. ad to, and cognitus, pa. par. of cognosco = to know.] [KNOW.] A. Transitive : 1. Not reflexively: To inform, to communicate an item of intelligence. The person informed is in the accusative, and the intelligence is introduced by of , with, or the clause of a sentence commencing with that . "Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed, Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love." Shakesp. Romeo & Juliet , iii. 4. "Brutus acquainted the people with the doer and manner of the vile deed."-Shakesp. Tarquin & Lucrece, Argument. "I must acquaint you that I have received New-dated letters from North umber land." Shakesp.: 2 Henry IV., iv. 1. 2. Reflexively: To make (one's self) familiar with a being or person, his character, or his procedure. " A quaint now thyself with him [God], and be at релое." - Год xxii. 21. B. In trans.: To be cognizant of anything, to be observant of what pa es, or is taking place at the time; to be or become familiar with. "Though the Choiseuls will not acquaint with you.' -Walpole: Letters , iii. 504. (in Scotch pron. * ac-quent, *ạc-qua'nt), pa . par . & a. [ACQUAINT.] Now altogether superseded by ACQUAINTED (q. v.). "Thou also most entirely art Acquaint with all my ways." Rouse's metrical version of Ps. cxxxix. 3. "He is weel acquent wi' a' the smugglers, thieves, and banditti about Edinburgh."- Scott: Heart of Mid Loth i an.