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Definition of Acquainted
Acquainted

of Acquaint

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

Related Definitions:
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Acquainted Quotations

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude Stein

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard

Acquainted Translations

acquainted in German is bekannt, teilte mit, teilte mit
acquainted in Italian is noto
acquainted in Spanish is sabido
acquainted in Swedish is bekant


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