Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To communicate notice to; to inform; to make cognizant; -- followed by with (formerly, also, by of), or by that, introducing the intelligence; as, to acquaint a friend with the particulars of an act. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must acquaint you that I have received
New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To familiarize; to accustom. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To inform; apprise; communicate; advise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense the collective term acquaintance was formerly both singular and plural, but it is now commonly singular, and has the regular plural acquaintances. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be of acquaintance, to be intimate. --
To take acquaintance of or
with, to make the acquaintance of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Familiarity; intimacy; fellowship; knowledge. -- Acquaintance, Familiarity, Intimacy. These words mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

We contract at last such a familiarity with them as makes it difficult and irksome for us to call off our minds. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is in our power to confine our friendships and intimacies to men of virtue. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Acquisition; the thing gained. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were compelled to acquiesce in a government which they did not regard as just. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To submit; comply; yield; assent; agree; consent; accede; concur; conform; accept tacitly. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crim. Law) (a) Submission to an injury by the party injured. (b) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley. [ 1913 Webster ]

No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To obtain; gain; attain; procure; win; earn; secure. See Obtain. [ 1913 Webster ]

His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Acquisition, Acquirement. Acquirement is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirements; genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Business, Finance) The purchase of one commercial enterprise by another, whether for cash, or in a trade of stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company.
Syn. -- buyout, takeover. [ PJC ]

3. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Acquirement. [ 1913 Webster ]

He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phren.) The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe. [ 1913 Webster ]

A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pay for; to atone for. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge; -- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Reflexively: (a) To clear one's self. Shak. (b) To bear or conduct one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To absolve; clear; exonerate; exonerate; exculpate; release; discharge. See Absolve. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

You can produce acquittances
For such a sum, from special officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To equal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ is ] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; competent; capable. [ 1913 Webster ]