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▪ I. unaˈcquaint, a. Chiefly Sc.
[un-1 7.]
= unacquainted ppl. a. (Usu. const. with.)
1587T. Hughes Misfort. Arthur Induct., Good ladies, unacquaint with cunning reach. 1587W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 26 The habit proude, vnsene, vnvsd, all new and vnacquent, I thair beheld. 1611Sir W. Mure Misc. Poems ii. 47 Scho, spying me ȝit wnacquaint in loue, Hir new got dairts throught my puir hert did roue. 1628― Doomesday 643 Satietie, which vnacquent With loathing, doth arise. a1699J. Kirkton Hist. Ch. Scotl. (1817) 280 Maxwell,..because he was unacquaint in the town,..came running into Nicol Moffat, stabler, his house in Horse-Wynd. 1716Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 216 Your Reverend colleague, to whom, though unacquaint, I give my dearest respects. a1758Ramsay Some of the Contents v, Thair forbeirs were unacquaint with feir. 1822Galt Provost xxvi, We were unacquaint with the character of the man. 1840Lowell Irene 23 And, though herself not unacquaint with care, Hath in her heart wide room for all that be.
▪ II. † unaˈcquaint, v. Obs. rare.
[un-2 6 a.]
trans. To deprive of acquaintance.
1557N.T. (Genev.) Epist. *iiii, What thing can ther be then that might vnacquaynte vs and dryue vs backe from this Gospel? 1697J. Sergeant Solid. Philos. 360 Nor can the contrary be sustaind any other way, but by unacquainting us with our selves and our own kind. |