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unaˈcquainted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Of persons: Not personally known (to one). Obs. (Cf. 4.)
1529More Suppl. Souls Wks. 288/1 Your humble & vnacquaynted, and half forgotten supplyantes. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 155/2 He was more like a father than a freend, and more like a freend than an vnacquainted countriman. 1607Dekker & Webster Northw. Hoe i. i, Being a Londoner though altogether vnacquainted, I haue requested his company at supper.
†2. Of things: Unknown, unfamiliar, strange, unusual. Obs. (Common c 1560–1640.)
1551T. Wilson Logike Ep. to King A iv, I haue..enterprised to ioyne an acquaintaunce betwiene Logique, and my countrymen, from the whiche they haue bene hetherto barred, by tongues vnacquaynted. 1565Jewel Reply Harding (1611) 53 Certainly this phrase was so farre vnacquainted and vnknowen in that World, that the very Originals of these Decrees haue it not. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 467 The name of merites is an vnacquainted terme, not vsed in the scriptures. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 458, I was confident to dye a fearefull and vnacquainted death. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 126 Although the other punishments are more severe, yet this being more new and unacquainted, I cannot pass it by.
†b. Const. to. Obs. rare.
1572Buchanan Detection Marie Q. of Scottes H ij b, The kinde of disease, strange, vnknawin to the pepill, vnacquainted to phisitiones. 1598Yong Diana 452 Marcelius, Diana, and Ismenia, were lodged in two chambers in the Palace,..lodgings vnacquainted to simple Shepherds.
3. Of persons (rarely of things): Having no acquaintance with (= knowledge of) something.
(a)1563Golding Cæsar iii. (1565) 70 b, Conueying thyther by water wold be very combersome, bycause the Romanes were vnacquainted wyth those countryes. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §143 Sir Dudley Carleton..was unacquainted with the Government, Laws, and Customs of his own Country. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. Wks. 1874 I. 36 There may be some impossibilities in the nature of things, which we are unacquainted with. 1771Junius Lett. lviii. (1788) 312, I profess to be unacquainted with his private character. 1815Scott Guy M. liv, Hazlewood, unacquainted with their plan of assault, was a moment later. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. ix. 269 To those unacquainted with the fact of their motion,..the assertion that a glacier moves must appear..startling and incredible.
(b)1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. i. (1628) 1 The Irish language..is..vtterly vnacquainted with the names of England and of Englishmen. 1615Sandys Trav. iv. 254 A bay..vnacquainted with tempests. 1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. iv. 303 Faith being..yet unacquainted with the Lords dealing with his people. 1860Adler Prov. Poet. 351 This poetry was unacquainted with the dramatic form.
†b. Const. in, of, or to. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 360 So that poor Apollo was faine to leade a very miserable life, vnacquainted to worke, and never vsed to begge. 1704Swift T. Tub Ded., Being very unacquainted in the style and form of dedications. 1787C. Smith Romance Real Life I. 290 A species of torture, but of the nature of which we are happily unacquainted in this country. 1805tr. Lafontaine's Hermann & E. IV. 181 She is unacquainted of this circumstance, and she must remain in ignorance of it.
c. Without const.: Inexperienced; ignorant. Also with that and clause.
In quot. 1791 = in ignorance.
1581Allen Apol. 121 Death and dungeons be not so terrible things to Christes souldiars, as they seeme to the vnacquainted. 1581J. Studley Medea A v, Not any guilt thou shalt with unacquainted hand assay. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 426, I thinke it best to show the vnacquainted Reader, a reasonable satisfaction for [etc.]. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. i. 3 The surprizing spectacle of so many and various Objects, as presented themselves to her unacquainted Sight. 1791J. Learmont Poems 15 Tho' unacquaintit she has wooet Wi' ane that is his fae. 1796F. Burney Camilla iv. v, Is she unacquainted that a little knowledge of books and languages is what alone I have been taught?
4. Of persons: Not having acquaintance, not being on terms of personal knowledge, with another. Also without const.: Not mutually acquainted.
1633Massinger Guardian v. iv, You know the proscribed Severino,—he not unacquainted, but familiar, with The most of you. 1657Reeve God's Plea 263 The Omniscient God is not unacquainted with them that are most dear to him, his Elect. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxviii, Sir,..you are unacquainted with the man that oppresses us. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xx, Were my mother to see you..I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally. 1892H. Lane Differ. Rheum. Dis. (ed. 2) Pref., The exceeding kindness..with which friends, as well as critics, with whom I was personally unacquainted, received my first literary venture. |