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

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

Not acquainted. Cowper.

Unacquaintance. Whiston.

Acquainted. [Obs.]

Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

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

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

iralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books. "A bookish man." Addison. "Bookish skill." Bp. Hall.

Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden.

Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. [Obs.] Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar. [Obs.] While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Herrick.

n running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice. These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles. Addison.

Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures.

To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.

One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.

To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with). Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude, Guiltless of fire, had formed. Milton. -- Guilt"less*ly, adv. -- Guilt"less*ness, n.

Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. Atterbury.