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Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily. [Obs.] Clerks be full subtle and full quaint. Chaucer.

Craft; subtlety; cunning. [Obs.] Chaucer. R. of Glouces.

In a quaint manner. Shak.

The quality of being quaint. Pope.

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.

An acquaintance. [R.] Swift.

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

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

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

Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. [Obs.] South.

Want of acquaintance. Good.

Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.

To acquaint previously or beforehand. Fielding.

Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.

The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not acquainted. Cowper.

Unacquaintance. Whiston.