KJV Dictionary Definition: acquaint

acquaint

ACQUA'INT, v.t. Eng. can, and ken; which see.

1. To make known; to make fully or intimately known; to make familiar.

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53.

2. To inform; to communicate notice to; as a friend in the country acquaints me with his success. Of before the object, as to acquaint a man of this design, has been used, but is obsolete or improper.

3. To acquaint one's self, is to gain an intimate or particular knowledge of.

Acquaint now thyself with him and be at peace. Job 22.

acquaintance

ACQUAI'NTANCE, n.

1. Familiar knowledge; a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate or more than slight or superficial knowledge; as, I know the man, but have no acquaintance with him. Sometimes it denotes a more slight knowledge.

2. A person or persons well known; usually persons we have been accustomed to see and converse with; sometimes, persons more slightly known.

Lover and friend has thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness. Ps. 88.

My acquaintance are estranged from me. Job 19.

Acquaintances, in the plural is used, as applied to individual persons known; but more generally, acquaintance is used for one or more.

Acquaintant, in a like sense, is not used.

acquainted

ACQUA'INTED, pp. Known; familiarly known; informed; having personal knowledge.

acquainting

ACQUA'INTING, ppr. Making known to; giving notice, or information to.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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