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To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] Evelyn. To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.

f 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. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

A person who acquires.

Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addiso…

pted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.

The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has…

wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. "An admirable machine." "Admirable fortitude." Macaulay.

Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.