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[ACQUAINT.] Easy to gain the acquaintance of, easy of acce . "Wherefore be wise and acquaint able." go-quaint-ance, s. & * a. [ACQUAINT.] A. As substantive: Rom . of the Rose , 2,218. I. The act of gaining a greater or le amount of knowledge of any person or thing. IL. The state of becoming known to a person. "As I'll myself disgrace: knowing thy will, I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange." inge. Shakesp.: Sonnets, 80. For goodne ' sake, consider what you do; How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly Grow from the king's acquaintance by this carriage." Shakesp.: King Henry VIII., iii. 1. from a familiar acquaintance with the mechanical proce es of certain arts, trades, and manufactures."Sir G. C. Lewis: Influence of Authority, ch. ii. 48 III. A person with whom one is acquainted. *1. A friend. "But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide and mine acquaintance . We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company." Ps. Iv. 13, 14. 2. (a) Really singular : A person whom one knows but slightly, or who, if he has been long known, has still, for some reason or other, been kept outside the circle of one's chosen and trusted friends. "Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. (6) Collectively: People whom one knows. they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance."- Luke ii. 44. Sometimes applied figuratively to the inferior animals or to things. "Evans. B. As adjective ( highly vulgar ): Acquainted. Give her this letter; for it is a 'oman that altogether 's acquaintance with Mistre Anne Page."-Shakesp.: Merry Wives, i. 2. It should never be used in this sense.