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  • English Word Acquaint Definition To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
  • English Word Acquaint Definition To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act.
  • English Word Acquaint Definition To familiarize; to accustom.
  • English Word Acquaintable Definition Easy to be acquainted with; affable.
  • English Word Acquaintance Definition A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
  • English Word Acquaintance Definition A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
  • English Word Acquaintanceship Definition A state of being acquainted; acquaintance.
  • English Word Acquaintant Definition An acquaintance.
  • English Word Acquainted Definition of Acquaint
  • English Word Acquainted Definition Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.
  • English Word Acquaintedness Definition State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance.
  • English Word Acquainting Definition of Acquaint
  • English Word Acquest Definition Acquisition; the thing gained.
  • English Word Acquest Definition Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.
  • English Word Acquiesce Definition To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- followed by in, formerly also by with and to.
  • English Word Acquiesce Definition To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.
  • English Word Acquiesced Definition of Acquiesce
  • English Word Acquiescence Definition A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  • English Word Acquiescence Definition Submission to an injury by the party injured.
  • English Word Acquiescence Definition Tacit concurrence in the action of another.
  • English Word Acquiescency Definition The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
  • English Word Acquiescent Definition Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.
  • English Word Acquiescently Definition In an acquiescent manner.
  • English Word Acquiescing Definition of Acquiesce
  • English Word Acquiet Definition To quiet.
  • English Word Acquirability Definition The quality of being acquirable; attainableness.
  • English Word Acquirable Definition Capable of being acquired.
  • English Word Acquire Definition To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
  • English Word Acquired Definition of Acquire
  • English Word Acquirement Definition The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.