acquaint

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by 'with'.
  2. Verb.  (ditransitive) 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.
  3. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To familiarize; to accustom.
  4. Adjective.  (obsolete) Acquainted.

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