acquaintancen.

Brit.

/əˈkweɪnt(ə)ns/, U.S.

/əˈkweɪn(t)ns/

Forms: early Middle English acointance, Middle English acoyntaunse (in a late copy), Middle English acqueyntance, Middle English acqueyntaunce, Middle English acqueyntavnce, Middle English aquayntonce, Middle English aqueintance, Middle English aqueintaunce, Middle English aquentaunce, Middle English aqueyntance, Middle English aqueyntanse, Middle English aqueyntaunce, Middle English aqueyntauns, Middle English aqueyntawnse, Middle English aquoyntaunce, Middle English aqweyntance, Middle English aqweyntauns, Middle English aqweyntawnce, Middle English aqweyntawns, Middle English aqweynttance, Middle English 1600s aquantance, Middle English–1500s acquaintaunce, Middle English–1500s acquayntaunce, Middle English–1500s acqueintance, Middle English–1500s acqueintaunce, Middle English–1500s acquentaunce, Middle English–1500s aquayntaunce, Middle English–1700s aquaintance, 1500s accointenance, 1500s accoyntans, 1500s accoyntaunce, 1500s acoyntaunce, 1500s acquayntans, 1500s acquayntawnce, 1500s acquyntance, 1500s acqwayntance, 1500s aquayntance, 1500s aquayntauns, 1500s aquoyntance, 1500s aquyntance, 1500s aquyntaunce, 1500s–1600s acquayntance, 1500s– acquaintance, 1600s accquaintance, 1600s accquayntance, 1600s acquentance, 1600s acquiantance, 1600s acquintance; Scottish pre-1700 acquentance, pre-1700 acquentans, pre-1700 acquintance, pre-1700 acquyntance, pre-1700 acquyntans, pre-1700 acquyntaunce, pre-1700 acqweyntawns, pre-1700 acqwyntans, pre-1700 aquayntans, pre-1700 aquentance, pre-1700 aquentans, pre-1700 aquyntans, pre-1700 aqwentance, pre-1700 aqweyntans, pre-1700 aqwyntance, pre-1700 aqwyntans, pre-1700 1700s–1800s acquantance, pre-1700 1700s– acquaintance, pre-1700 1800s aquyntance, 1800s akquantence. N.E.D. (1884) also records forms Middle English acqueyntanse, late Middle English acqueyntawns.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French aquaintaunce.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, aqueyntaunce, aquointaunce, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French acointance (Middle French, French accointance ) meeting or reunion of several people (c1170), friendship, familiarity (c1230; c1200 in specific sense ‘love affair’, and in modern French often used in this sense, usually with a pejorative connotation of illicitness), in Anglo-Norman also dealings with a person, social interaction (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier) < acointer , aqueinter acquaint v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare Old Occitan (Gascon) acoindansa , acontanse , acunhdansa manners, conduct (first half of the 13th cent.). Compare quaintance n., enqueyntance n.The use denoting people (compare sense 2) is not paralleled in the Romance languages.

1. Originally: the state of being closely acquainted with a person; friendship, companionship. In later use: the state of knowing someone slightly, without the depth or intimacy of a friendship. Also: a relationship of this type. Frequently with with (†of).bowing, meeting, nodding, speaking, visiting acquaintance, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted

acquaintancec1230

knowledge1389

quaintancea1400

acquaintation1468

acquaintanceship1640

acquaintancy1855

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 101 Acointance i religiun. wa deð hit ofte [L. cognatio sepe dampnum infert religioso].

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 143 (MED) Of þise aquayntonce and of þise priuite þe ilke holy zaule be-ginþ to habbe of god..an holy prede.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1172 (MED) For whos love and whos aqueintance Withinne hise houses to sojorne It liketh wel unto Satorne.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7252 (MED) For aqueyntaunce þat haþ ben Fer and neer hem bitwene.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Friar's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 42 Hire aqueyntance was nat come of newe They weren hise Approwours pryuely.

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. A^v For olde acquayntance, bytwene them erst had ben.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 342 If you doe enter acquaintaunce and familiaritie with him, this muche I dare able [etc.].

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 174 I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good master Cobweb.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 48 The French are a free and debonnaire acohstable [sic; 1650 acostable] people,..at first entrance one may have acquaintance.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 123. ¶5 His Acquaintance with her by degrees grew into Love.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 32 Give me leave to introduce Miss Constance Neville to your acquaintance.

1822 Ld. Byron Werner 1 i Let's have some wine, and drink unto Our better acquaintance.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 295 Those who had not the honour of his acquaintance.

1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 48 We hear of his facility in striking up an acquaintance with women.

1935 A. Christie Death in Clouds xi. 115 At the Sûreté Poirot renewed acquaintance with the Chief of the Detective Force.

1975 R. Pilcher Day of Storm ii. 17 At this stage of our acquaintance it would be nothing but impertinence to ask such an intimate and personal thing.

2010 Express (Nexis) 18 Mar. 26 A few young people of my acquaintance have managed to get a foot on the first rung of the property ladder.

2. Originally: a person with whom one is acquainted closely; a friend or companion. In later use: a person one knows slightly or on a less intimate basis than friendship. Frequently paired or contrasted with friend.

a. As a count noun.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance

friendOE

knowerc1350

acquainta1400

knowinga1400

acquaintancec1405

acquainted?c1566

conversant1589

acquaintant1611

habitude1676

contact1931

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 283 With inne thyn hous ne be thow no leon..Ne make thyne aqueyntances nat for to flee [3 MSS acquaintances, Harl. MS acqueyntis].

?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Aij^v There coude I none aquentaunce fynde.

1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vii. p. ccclx He was his acquayntaunce and famylyare.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 101 What old acquaintance, could not all this flesh Keepe in a little life?

1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes sig. H^v Dobson..agreed with certaine of his merry acquaintances, one night..to enter the Orchard.

1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours 409 An acquaintance of his, that had a Nephritick stone, of whose eminent Virtues he had often Experience ev'n in himself.

1772 E. Gibbon Let. 13 Oct. in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 465 If, among a crowd of acquaintances, one friend can afford you any comfort.

1785 Times 5 Feb. 3/3 An old friend and acquaintance of his..hearing the report the next day, immediately fell into..a fit of phrenzy.

a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. vii. 131 She was convinced that he was ready to be acknowledged as an acquaintance..and she had the pain of seeing her sister turn away with unalterable coldness.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iv. 69 He might meet some acquaintance in whose eyes he would cut a pitiable figure.

1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 11/2 Amongst her own college friends and acquaintances..she sees that it is the most ‘rapid’ who marry quickest and marry richest.

2009 Time Out N.Y. 26 Feb. 4/1 I..flipped through..and found an acquaintance of mine..in the ‘Fetish finder’ dating article.

b. As a mass noun (with plural agreement): such people collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance > those with whom one is acquainted

couthc1000

kithc1000

knownc1350

knowledge1389

kithinga1400

acquaintancea1425

circle1646

sphere1839

a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 45 (MED) Nane defende ne warne oþir..ne for sibredin ne for na oþir aquaintance.

a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 6970 (MED) Vn to the lavender weddid ther he was, Whiche Vtterly for soke hir acqueyntaunce.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke ii. f. lxxvj Sought hym amonge their kynsfolke and acquayntaunce.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 249 Such..friends or acquaintance, as are neither Timists nor Timonists, Fawners nor Frowners.

1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 89 Now meditate alone, now with Acquaintance talk.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 79. ⁋9 She is impertinently Blunt to all her Acquaintance.

1746 J. Wesley Let. 17 June (1931) II. 250 One John Haydon..went about to his acquaintance one after another, and laboured above measure to convince them that it was a delusion of the devil.

1816 J. Austen Emma I. iii. 42 The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xvi. 304 Had that audience numbered as many personal friends and acquaintance for me, as for him, I know not how it might have been.

1976 J. Lees-Milne Diary 2 Oct. in Through Wood & Dale (2001) 123 Others have been boy-mad among my acquaintance, but these girls think of nothing else.

2010 Times (Nexis) 5 June 11 Many prune back their acquaintance to a core of good friends who see each other weekly.

a. Personal knowledge; knowledge gained from personal or direct experience; familiarity with a subject, matter, etc. Also with †of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] > knowledge of, acquaintance

kithc900

acquaintancec1540

skill1587

skilfulnessa1656

acquaintedness1661

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun]

enqueyntance1297

knowledgec1384

homeliness1402

acquaintancec1540

familiarity1574

habit1586

discourse1603

frequence1603

familiarness1612

conversationa1626

conversea1652

acquaintedness1661

intimacy1714

inquaintancea1834

hability1840

c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1865 Syn he no knowlage ne Acoyntaunse of my cors has.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 16 Pardon me, That any accent breaking from thy tongue, Should scape the true acquaintance of mine eare.

1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. 61 What would this fellow have? who let him in without my acquaintance?

1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iv. §2 Enlarge your general acquaintance with things daily, in order to attain a rich furniture of topics.

1798 Monthly Rev. 3 585 His empirical acquaintance with the works of taste is not comprehensive.

1834 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 28 There was then but little acquaintance with the internal mechanism of musical instruments of this kind [sc. pianofortes] in Boston.

1866 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire (new ed.) vii. 126 An acquaintance with those works themselves such as only minute and long-continued study could give.

1932 Model Aircraft 1 ii. 28 People whose previous acquaintance with model aeroplanes has been limited to paper gliders.

2004 New Yorker 26 Jan. 91/3 The passage illustrates the author's remarkably confident acquaintance with female clothes of the era 1880–1930.

b. spec. in Philosophy. Direct or immediate experience or awareness of anything, esp. as given in sensation, introspection, or memory and serving as a foundation for knowledge of facts; the knowledge given in such experience, as contrasted with the knowledge of facts gained by investigation, inference, etc. Also: an instance of this. Cf. knowledge by acquaintance at knowledge n. Phrases 6a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > experience > [noun] > direct

acquaintance1865

1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. iv. 61 If by knowledge we mean acquaintance or familiarity, kenntniss, then we know the thing in itself.

1885 W. James in Mind 10 28 An interminable acquaintance, leading to no knowledge-about.

1905 B. Russell in Mind 14 479 The distinction between acquaintance and knowledge about is the distinction between the things we have presentations of, and the things we only reach by means of denoting phrases.

1960 Philos. Sci. 27 13 Whether the object B is, or is not, distinguishable from the object A..is stated empirically, on the strength of perceptual acquaintance with the objects A and B.

2004 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 69 9 Such modes of primary epistemic perception are forms of what Russell..calls knowledge by acquaintance, and simple perception..simple acquaintance (or, simply, acquaintance).

Phrases

†P1. to take acquaintance (with also of): to get to know or become familiar (with); = to make (the) acquaintance (of also occasionally with) at Phrases 2. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French prendre acointance (a1415 or earlier).]

ΚΠ

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 1575 (MED) Deth comende er he be soght, Tok with this king such aqueintance.

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 55 Eue..toke aqueintaunce lightly of the serpent.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxx. xii I toke acquaintaunce of her excellence.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. xii. 234 We see Horses take such an Acquaintance with one another.

1714 J. Ozell tr. J. Racine Alexander the Great in Two Trag. 75 I took a sweet Acquaintance with my Fate.

1839 G. Stephens Gertrude & Beatrice (ed. 2) iv. i. 68 Do but cast a look t'insult me, and This steel shall take acquaintance with my blood.

P2. to make (the) acquaintance (of also occasionally with) (also to make (a person's) acquaintance): to form an acquaintance (with); to get to know. Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 167 Yusgat maid yai yar aquentance.

1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles ii. f. lxxvi Herodes and Herodias had now made acquaintaunce.

1625 D. Lindsay Godly Mans Iourney to Heauen i. 69 Thy Baptisme, whereby thou madest thy first acquaintance with Christ.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 205 To make acquaintance: To give up acquaintance:..all at his pleasure, whether she think it reasonable to do so or not.

1795 C. Smith Montalbert III. xxxiii. 168 Rosalie..was never so little willing as now to make her acquaintance.

1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. xii. 169 This was the yachting season, and I had made the acquaintance of many of the gentlemen who belonged to the club.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §6. 43 We spent a day or two in making the general acquaintance of the glacier.

1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 106 I made the acquaintance of a new sport while with the battery.

2010 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 May A woman at a..convention who was particularly keen to make my acquaintance and may possibly have wished to take things further.

P3. to scrape (an) acquaintance: see scrape v. 5b.

P4. on acquaintance: on being acquainted with; on getting to know someone or something. Frequently with modifying word.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] > on becoming acquainted with

on acquaintance1796

1796 J. Lathrop Serm. Var. Subj. II. xxxix. 246 Abraham, before he conversed with the people of Gerar, thought surely the fear of God was not in that place; but, on acquaintance, he found in it piety enough to rebuke his misconduct.

1833 J. Montgomery Lect. Poetry & Gen. Lit. xi. 246 Try poetry by this standard; that which wearies, on acquaintance, is false; that which improves, is true.

1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington xiii. 240 One rode for..miles for the chance of meeting a collector or police officer, with whom most likely on closer acquaintance one had hardly two ideas in common.

1983 Economist 2 July 90/3 Far more intelligent than most people thought on first acquaintance.

2003 Australian (Nexis) 5 May 7 [The ballet score] only improves on acquaintance and begs to be recorded.

Compounds

acquaintance rape n. rape committed by a person who is known to the victim; cf. date rape n.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > specific types of

statutory rape1873

gang rape1875

marital rape1884

train1962

pack rape1972

date rape1973

acquaintance rape1974

1974 E. Goode & R. R. Troiden Sexual Deviance & Sexual Deviants vi. 301 Stranger rapes are far more likely to be reported and admitted than friendship and acquaintance rapes.

1991 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. a1/5 The growing prominence of the phenomenon, acquaintance rape or date rape, raises as many questions about subtleties in male–female relationships as it does about criminality on campus.

2003 New Yorker 1 Sept. 41/1 The case..comes under the broad rubric of acquaintance rape, which has historically been tougher to prove than cases involving strangers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	acquaintance
释义	acquaintancen. Brit. /əˈkweɪnt(ə)ns/, U.S. /əˈkweɪn(t)ns/ Forms: early Middle English acointance, Middle English acoyntaunse (in a late copy), Middle English acqueyntance, Middle English acqueyntaunce, Middle English acqueyntavnce, Middle English aquayntonce, Middle English aqueintance, Middle English aqueintaunce, Middle English aquentaunce, Middle English aqueyntance, Middle English aqueyntanse, Middle English aqueyntaunce, Middle English aqueyntauns, Middle English aqueyntawnse, Middle English aquoyntaunce, Middle English aqweyntance, Middle English aqweyntauns, Middle English aqweyntawnce, Middle English aqweyntawns, Middle English aqweynttance, Middle English 1600s aquantance, Middle English–1500s acquaintaunce, Middle English–1500s acquayntaunce, Middle English–1500s acqueintance, Middle English–1500s acqueintaunce, Middle English–1500s acquentaunce, Middle English–1500s aquayntaunce, Middle English–1700s aquaintance, 1500s accointenance, 1500s accoyntans, 1500s accoyntaunce, 1500s acoyntaunce, 1500s acquayntans, 1500s acquayntawnce, 1500s acquyntance, 1500s acqwayntance, 1500s aquayntance, 1500s aquayntauns, 1500s aquoyntance, 1500s aquyntance, 1500s aquyntaunce, 1500s–1600s acquayntance, 1500s– acquaintance, 1600s accquaintance, 1600s accquayntance, 1600s acquentance, 1600s acquiantance, 1600s acquintance; Scottish pre-1700 acquentance, pre-1700 acquentans, pre-1700 acquintance, pre-1700 acquyntance, pre-1700 acquyntans, pre-1700 acquyntaunce, pre-1700 acqweyntawns, pre-1700 acqwyntans, pre-1700 aquayntans, pre-1700 aquentance, pre-1700 aquentans, pre-1700 aquyntans, pre-1700 aqwentance, pre-1700 aqweyntans, pre-1700 aqwyntance, pre-1700 aqwyntans, pre-1700 1700s–1800s acquantance, pre-1700 1700s– acquaintance, pre-1700 1800s aquyntance, 1800s akquantence. N.E.D. (1884) also records forms Middle English acqueyntanse, late Middle English acqueyntawns. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French aquaintaunce. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman aquaintaunce, aqueintance, aqueyntaunce, aquointaunce, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French acointance (Middle French, French accointance ) meeting or reunion of several people (c1170), friendship, familiarity (c1230; c1200 in specific sense ‘love affair’, and in modern French often used in this sense, usually with a pejorative connotation of illicitness), in Anglo-Norman also dealings with a person, social interaction (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier) < acointer , aqueinter acquaint v. + -ance -ance suffix. Compare Old Occitan (Gascon) acoindansa , acontanse , acunhdansa manners, conduct (first half of the 13th cent.). Compare quaintance n., enqueyntance n.The use denoting people (compare sense 2) is not paralleled in the Romance languages. 1. Originally: the state of being closely acquainted with a person; friendship, companionship. In later use: the state of knowing someone slightly, without the depth or intimacy of a friendship. Also: a relationship of this type. Frequently with with (†of).bowing, meeting, nodding, speaking, visiting acquaintance, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted acquaintancec1230 knowledge1389 quaintancea1400 acquaintation1468 acquaintanceship1640 acquaintancy1855 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 101 Acointance i religiun. wa deð hit ofte [L. cognatio sepe dampnum infert religioso]. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 143 (MED) Of þise aquayntonce and of þise priuite þe ilke holy zaule be-ginþ to habbe of god..an holy prede. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1172 (MED) For whos love and whos aqueintance Withinne hise houses to sojorne It liketh wel unto Satorne. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7252 (MED) For aqueyntaunce þat haþ ben Fer and neer hem bitwene. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Friar's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 42 Hire aqueyntance was nat come of newe They weren hise Approwours pryuely. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. A^v For olde acquayntance, bytwene them erst had ben. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Erasmus in Panoplie Epist. 342 If you doe enter acquaintaunce and familiaritie with him, this muche I dare able [etc.]. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 174 I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good master Cobweb. View more context for this quotation 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 48 The French are a free and debonnaire acohstable [sic; 1650 acostable] people,..at first entrance one may have acquaintance. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 123. ¶5 His Acquaintance with her by degrees grew into Love. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 32 Give me leave to introduce Miss Constance Neville to your acquaintance. 1822 Ld. Byron Werner 1 i Let's have some wine, and drink unto Our better acquaintance. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 295 Those who had not the honour of his acquaintance. 1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 48 We hear of his facility in striking up an acquaintance with women. 1935 A. Christie Death in Clouds xi. 115 At the Sûreté Poirot renewed acquaintance with the Chief of the Detective Force. 1975 R. Pilcher Day of Storm ii. 17 At this stage of our acquaintance it would be nothing but impertinence to ask such an intimate and personal thing. 2010 Express (Nexis) 18 Mar. 26 A few young people of my acquaintance have managed to get a foot on the first rung of the property ladder. 2. Originally: a person with whom one is acquainted closely; a friend or companion. In later use: a person one knows slightly or on a less intimate basis than friendship. Frequently paired or contrasted with friend. a. As a count noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance friendOE knowerc1350 acquainta1400 knowinga1400 acquaintancec1405 acquainted?c1566 conversant1589 acquaintant1611 habitude1676 contact1931 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 283 With inne thyn hous ne be thow no leon..Ne make thyne aqueyntances nat for to flee [3 MSS acquaintances, Harl. MS acqueyntis]. ?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Aij^v There coude I none aquentaunce fynde. 1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere vii. p. ccclx He was his acquayntaunce and famylyare. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 101 What old acquaintance, could not all this flesh Keepe in a little life? View more context for this quotation 1607 Dobsons Drie Bobbes sig. H^v Dobson..agreed with certaine of his merry acquaintances, one night..to enter the Orchard. 1664 R. Boyle Exper. & Considerations Colours 409 An acquaintance of his, that had a Nephritick stone, of whose eminent Virtues he had often Experience ev'n in himself. 1772 E. Gibbon Let. 13 Oct. in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 465 If, among a crowd of acquaintances, one friend can afford you any comfort. 1785 Times 5 Feb. 3/3 An old friend and acquaintance of his..hearing the report the next day, immediately fell into..a fit of phrenzy. a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) IV. vii. 131 She was convinced that he was ready to be acknowledged as an acquaintance..and she had the pain of seeing her sister turn away with unalterable coldness. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iv. 69 He might meet some acquaintance in whose eyes he would cut a pitiable figure. 1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 11/2 Amongst her own college friends and acquaintances..she sees that it is the most ‘rapid’ who marry quickest and marry richest. 2009 Time Out N.Y. 26 Feb. 4/1 I..flipped through..and found an acquaintance of mine..in the ‘Fetish finder’ dating article. b. As a mass noun (with plural agreement): such people collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance > those with whom one is acquainted couthc1000 kithc1000 knownc1350 knowledge1389 kithinga1400 acquaintancea1425 circle1646 sphere1839 a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 45 (MED) Nane defende ne warne oþir..ne for sibredin ne for na oþir aquaintance. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 6970 (MED) Vn to the lavender weddid ther he was, Whiche Vtterly for soke hir acqueyntaunce. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke ii. f. lxxvj Sought hym amonge their kynsfolke and acquayntaunce. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 249 Such..friends or acquaintance, as are neither Timists nor Timonists, Fawners nor Frowners. 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 89 Now meditate alone, now with Acquaintance talk. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 79. ⁋9 She is impertinently Blunt to all her Acquaintance. 1746 J. Wesley Let. 17 June (1931) II. 250 One John Haydon..went about to his acquaintance one after another, and laboured above measure to convince them that it was a delusion of the devil. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. iii. 42 The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her. View more context for this quotation 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xvi. 304 Had that audience numbered as many personal friends and acquaintance for me, as for him, I know not how it might have been. 1976 J. Lees-Milne Diary 2 Oct. in Through Wood & Dale (2001) 123 Others have been boy-mad among my acquaintance, but these girls think of nothing else. 2010 Times (Nexis) 5 June 11 Many prune back their acquaintance to a core of good friends who see each other weekly. 3. a. Personal knowledge; knowledge gained from personal or direct experience; familiarity with a subject, matter, etc. Also with †of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] > knowledge of, acquaintance kithc900 acquaintancec1540 skill1587 skilfulnessa1656 acquaintedness1661 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun] enqueyntance1297 knowledgec1384 homeliness1402 acquaintancec1540 familiarity1574 habit1586 discourse1603 frequence1603 familiarness1612 conversationa1626 conversea1652 acquaintedness1661 intimacy1714 inquaintancea1834 hability1840 c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 1865 Syn he no knowlage ne Acoyntaunse of my cors has. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vi. 16 Pardon me, That any accent breaking from thy tongue, Should scape the true acquaintance of mine eare. View more context for this quotation 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. 61 What would this fellow have? who let him in without my acquaintance? 1725 I. Watts Logick iii. iv. §2 Enlarge your general acquaintance with things daily, in order to attain a rich furniture of topics. 1798 Monthly Rev. 3 585 His empirical acquaintance with the works of taste is not comprehensive. 1834 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 28 There was then but little acquaintance with the internal mechanism of musical instruments of this kind [sc. pianofortes] in Boston. 1866 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire (new ed.) vii. 126 An acquaintance with those works themselves such as only minute and long-continued study could give. 1932 Model Aircraft 1 ii. 28 People whose previous acquaintance with model aeroplanes has been limited to paper gliders. 2004 New Yorker 26 Jan. 91/3 The passage illustrates the author's remarkably confident acquaintance with female clothes of the era 1880–1930. b. spec. in Philosophy. Direct or immediate experience or awareness of anything, esp. as given in sensation, introspection, or memory and serving as a foundation for knowledge of facts; the knowledge given in such experience, as contrasted with the knowledge of facts gained by investigation, inference, etc. Also: an instance of this. Cf. knowledge by acquaintance at knowledge n. Phrases 6a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > experience > [noun] > direct acquaintance1865 1865 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. I i. iv. 61 If by knowledge we mean acquaintance or familiarity, kenntniss, then we know the thing in itself. 1885 W. James in Mind 10 28 An interminable acquaintance, leading to no knowledge-about. 1905 B. Russell in Mind 14 479 The distinction between acquaintance and knowledge about is the distinction between the things we have presentations of, and the things we only reach by means of denoting phrases. 1960 Philos. Sci. 27 13 Whether the object B is, or is not, distinguishable from the object A..is stated empirically, on the strength of perceptual acquaintance with the objects A and B. 2004 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 69 9 Such modes of primary epistemic perception are forms of what Russell..calls knowledge by acquaintance, and simple perception..simple acquaintance (or, simply, acquaintance). Phrases †P1. to take acquaintance (with also of): to get to know or become familiar (with); = to make (the) acquaintance (of also occasionally with) at Phrases 2. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French prendre acointance (a1415 or earlier).] ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 1575 (MED) Deth comende er he be soght, Tok with this king such aqueintance. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 55 Eue..toke aqueintaunce lightly of the serpent. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxx. xii I toke acquaintaunce of her excellence. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. xii. 234 We see Horses take such an Acquaintance with one another. 1714 J. Ozell tr. J. Racine Alexander the Great in Two Trag. 75 I took a sweet Acquaintance with my Fate. 1839 G. Stephens Gertrude & Beatrice (ed. 2) iv. i. 68 Do but cast a look t'insult me, and This steel shall take acquaintance with my blood. P2. to make (the) acquaintance (of also occasionally with) (also to make (a person's) acquaintance): to form an acquaintance (with); to get to know. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 167 Yusgat maid yai yar aquentance. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles ii. f. lxxvi Herodes and Herodias had now made acquaintaunce. 1625 D. Lindsay Godly Mans Iourney to Heauen i. 69 Thy Baptisme, whereby thou madest thy first acquaintance with Christ. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxii. 205 To make acquaintance: To give up acquaintance:..all at his pleasure, whether she think it reasonable to do so or not. 1795 C. Smith Montalbert III. xxxiii. 168 Rosalie..was never so little willing as now to make her acquaintance. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene III. xii. 169 This was the yachting season, and I had made the acquaintance of many of the gentlemen who belonged to the club. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §6. 43 We spent a day or two in making the general acquaintance of the glacier. 1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 106 I made the acquaintance of a new sport while with the battery. 2010 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 May A woman at a..convention who was particularly keen to make my acquaintance and may possibly have wished to take things further. P3. to scrape (an) acquaintance: see scrape v. 5b. P4. on acquaintance: on being acquainted with; on getting to know someone or something. Frequently with modifying word. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] > on becoming acquainted with on acquaintance1796 1796 J. Lathrop Serm. Var. Subj. II. xxxix. 246 Abraham, before he conversed with the people of Gerar, thought surely the fear of God was not in that place; but, on acquaintance, he found in it piety enough to rebuke his misconduct. 1833 J. Montgomery Lect. Poetry & Gen. Lit. xi. 246 Try poetry by this standard; that which wearies, on acquaintance, is false; that which improves, is true. 1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington xiii. 240 One rode for..miles for the chance of meeting a collector or police officer, with whom most likely on closer acquaintance one had hardly two ideas in common. 1983 Economist 2 July 90/3 Far more intelligent than most people thought on first acquaintance. 2003 Australian (Nexis) 5 May 7 [The ballet score] only improves on acquaintance and begs to be recorded. Compounds acquaintance rape n. rape committed by a person who is known to the victim; cf. date rape n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > specific types of statutory rape1873 gang rape1875 marital rape1884 train1962 pack rape1972 date rape1973 acquaintance rape1974 1974 E. Goode & R. R. Troiden Sexual Deviance & Sexual Deviants vi. 301 Stranger rapes are far more likely to be reported and admitted than friendship and acquaintance rapes. 1991 N.Y. Times 2 Jan. a1/5 The growing prominence of the phenomenon, acquaintance rape or date rape, raises as many questions about subtleties in male–female relationships as it does about criminality on campus. 2003 New Yorker 1 Sept. 41/1 The case..comes under the broad rubric of acquaintance rape, which has historically been tougher to prove than cases involving strangers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1230
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