acquaint ablet (akwantabl)

[ Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. That general acquaintance with the mechanism and working of the living system which all persons, even moderately educated, should po e . Huxley and Youmans , Physiol., § 368. I have a very general acquaintance here in New EngHawthorne, Old Manse, i. land. 2. A person known to one, especially a person with whom one is not on terms of great intimacy: as, he is not a friend, only an acquaintance. [This is the only sense which admits of a plural form.] We see he is ashamed of his nearest acquaintances . C. Boyle, Bentley on Phalaris. Mere acquaintance you have none; you have drawn them all into a nearer line; and they who have conversed with you, are for ever after inviolably yours. Dryden, Orig. and Prog. of Satire. 3. The whole body of those with whom one is acquainted: used as a plural, as if for acquain tances. See acquaint ant. Mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. Job xix. 13. To cultivate one's acquaintance, to endeavor to become intimate with one. Syn. 1. Acquaintance, Famil iarity, Intimacy. Acquaintance, knowledge arising from occasional intercourse; familiarity, knowledge arising from frequent or daily intercourse; intimacy, unreserved intercourse, intercourse of the closest po ible kind. acquainted (a-kwan'ted), p. a. [ Faulk . What, is he much acquainted in the family? Abs . O, very intimate. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. 2t. Known; familiarly known; not new. Things acquainted and familiar to us. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., v. 2. acquainted ne (a-kwan'ted-nes), n. The state of being acquainted. [Rare.] acquéreur (a-kā-rér'), n . [F., an acquirer, ac quérir , acquire: see acquire .] In French and Canadian law , one who acquires title, particularly to immovable property, by purchase. acquest (a-kwest'), n. [OF. acquest , F. ac quét = It. acquis to (ML. acquistum ), an acquisition, purchase, acquæsitum , usually acquis i tum , a thing acquired, neut. pp. of acquirere , acquire: see acquire . Cf. conquest.] it. The act of acquiring; acquirement: as, “countries of new acquest ," Bacon .-2t. A thing gained; an acquisition; a thing acquired by force: as, "new acquests and encroachments," Woodward , Nat. Hist.-3. In civil law : (a) Property acquired in other ways than by succe ion. ( b ) Property acquired during a marriage under the rule of community of property. [In this sense usually in the plural and spelled, as French, ac quéts .] See conquét .