acquaint

Meanings

Verb

• To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
• To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
• To familiarize; to accustom.

Adjective

• Acquainted.

Related

Similar words

• familiarize
• habituate, inure

Origin

• From Middle English aqueynten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Late Latin *accognitō, from Latin ad + cognitus, past participle of cognoscō, from con- + noscō. See quaint, know.