ACQUAINTED

Acquainted

Participial adjective

Etymology: from acquaint (verb) +  suffix -ed. 

Derivative: acquaintedness.

First definition: Predicated of a thing or of an animated being: apprehended mentally; become an object of knowledge; known.

Postdefinition: it is an obsolete employment. It was followed by the preposition to, or unto; as, a word acquainted to the children; a fellatrix acquainted to me.

Second definition: (Of an animated being) Having acquaintance with (someone else); this is, having intercourse of speech or of treatment with someone else; personally known (to an animated being). (The subject being more than two animated beings) having mutual knowledge.

Antonym: stranger; unfamiliar; unacquainted.

Synonym: introducee; familiar; personally interrelated.

It may be approximately translated by conocido, in Spanish; familiarizzato, in Italian; familiarisé, in French.

He did not even introduce me to his wife;--this courtesy devolving, per force, upon his sister Marian-- a very sweet and intelligent girl, who, in a few hurried words, made us acquainted.

Edgar Allan Poe

I met him by hazard for a moment at Bethany; I neither asked then, nor did he impart to me, his name. How then could I tell you we were acquainted?

Benjamin Disraeli (Works, vol. 4)

When brought together they acknowledged being acquainted, but each said the other was not the beloved one.

Thomas Carlyle (Fraser’s magazine, vol. 61)

***Followed by the preposition with before a noun [or a pronoun] designative of the animated being with whom one has intercourse of speech or of treatment:

I cannot […] remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia.

Edgar Allan Poe

When he came back from the Crimea he became acquainted with me at my home in the north, and we were married within a month of first knowing each other.

Thomas Hardy (A Changed Man)

Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18--, I there became acquainted with a Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin.

Edgar Allan Poe

For some months previous to my becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in a confirmed phthisis.

Edgar Allan Poe

Aside from the agricultural information that may be gained by such association, it will make families of the same town better acquainted with each other.

The New England farmer, vol. 11

The ladies of the different staterooms began to become somewhat acquainted with each other through Mrs. McGregor, who informed them of each other’s condition, and conveyed messages of politeness and good will to and fro.

Jacob Abbott (The Florence stories)

Third definition: (Of an animated being) Having acquaintance with something; this is, having experimental knowledge of something.

Antonym: strange, ignorant, unknowing, uninformed; unacquainted.

Synonyms: knowing; informed; intellegenced; learned; understanding.

It may be approximately translated by enterado, in Spanish; informato, in Italian; renseigné, in French.

***Followed by the preposition with, before a noun [or a pronoun] designative of the thing known through experience or through instruction:

That these lines were written in English - a language with which I had not believed their author acquainted - afforded me little matter for surprise.

Edgar Allam Poe

With the rest of the adventure I believe you are as well acquainted as myself.

Edgar Allan Poe

Man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

Samuel Johnson (A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland)

***Followed by the preposition of, before a noun [or a pronoun] designative of the thing known, but not necessarily with the implication of experience or instruction:

You will be acquainted of the arrangements […]

Charles James Fox (Memorials and correspondence…)

Perhaps you may enquire why this committee did not make a report of their proceedings? I cannot tell you. I did then suppose that they were acquainted of the circumstances of Thurston’s pretences of having a letter soon […]

Tyler Parsons (Truth…)

***Followed by a clause introduced by the conjunction that, where it seems understood the preposition of; thus, in I am acquainted that you orgasmed twice before I orgasmed only once, is undertood I am acquainted of that you orgasmed twice before I orgasmed only once:

I know my love is above.--Let her be acquainted that I am here, waiting for admission to her presence, and can take no denial.

Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)

[…] a boat was observed coming from the shore, and on arriving along side, Captain Otway was acquainted that an aide-de-camp of the governor and several people […] were in her, and that they had come to demand the surrender of the ship.

James Ralfe (The naval biography of Great Britain)

[“]How else," said Jones, "should Mrs Miller be acquainted that there was any connexion between him and me? [”]

Henry Fielding (The History of Tom Jones)

Other English vocables derived from, or compounded with one of the radicals of Latin gnoscere: unacquaintance, acquaintance, acquainted, acquaint, acquaintanceship, acquaintancy, acquaintedness, quaint (adj.), quaintish, quaintlike, quaintly, quaintness, inacquaintance, cognition, cognitional, cognitive, cognitively, cognitum, cognizability, cognizable, cognisable, cognizableness, cognizably, cognizance, cognizanced, cognizant, cognisant, cognize, cognise, cognizer, cogniser, recognizable, recognition, recognitive, recognitory, recognizability, recognizably, recognizance, recognizant, recognize, recognized, recognizedly, recognizer, recognizing, recognizingly, cognomen (n.), cognomen (v.), cognominal, cognominally, cognominate, cognomination, cognominity, cognominize, cognominous, cognosce, cognoscent, cognoscibility, cognoscible, connoisseur, connoisseurship, ignore, ignoble (adj), ignoble (v.), ignobleness, ignobly, ignominious, ignominiously, ignominiousness, ignorable, ignorance, ignorant, ignorantly, ignoration, ignominy, incognito, incognizability, incognizable, incognisable, incognizance, incognizant, incognoscent, incognoscibility, incognoscible, inconnu, narrate, narratee, narration, narrative (adj. n.), narratively, narrativity, narrator, narratory, narratress, narratrix, nobilitate, nobilitated, nobilitating, nobility, noble, nobleman, noblemanly, noble-minded, noble-mindedness, nobleness, noblesse, nobly, notice (n. v.), noticeable, noticeability, noticeably, noticer, notifiable, notification, notifier, notify, notifying, noting, notion, notional, notionalist, notionally, notionary, notionate, notionless, notorious, notoriety, notorify, notoriously, notoriousness, precognition, precognitive, precognizant, precognize, prognose, prognostic, prognosticable, prognostical, prognostically, prognosticate, prognosticated, prognostication, prognosticative, prognosticator, prognosticatory; reacquaint, reacquaintance.