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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1400, 1499-1657
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Acquent, p.p. Also: aquynte, aqwynt, acquynt; aqwent; acquaint, acquant. [ME. aquointe (c 1300), aquente, aqueynte, OF. acoint, acuint, L. accognitus.]
1. Acquainted.1375 Barb. vii. 138 (forthir acquynt [E. aqwent] quhill that we be). a1400 Legends of the Saints xl. 178 (ȝarnyng aquynte with hyme [to] be). a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 1294 (with whome he was aqwynt). a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1693.
With sic a man of craft aquent to be 1571 Maitland Folio MS clxxvii. 37 (cum they acquaint [Q. acquent], thay will creip inneir-mair). a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 981 (were thou acquaint with skill). 1584 Argyll Lett. 65 (men acquent with the effairis). 1618 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 3.
Few they are, therewith so well acquaint [: Continent]1628 Mure Doomesday 177 (with rare perfumes acquent). 1657 Balfour Ann. II. 13 (made acquant with the tressone).
2. Familiar; intimate. 1533 Boece viii. v. 257 b.
Be adulacioun, the acquent [L. domestica] pest of princis
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