unacquainted
English edit
Etymology edit
From un- + acquainted.
Adjective edit
unacquainted (comparative more unacquainted, superlative most unacquainted)
- Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
- 1563, Arthur Golding, transl., The Historie of Leonard Aretine concerning the Warres betwene the Imperialles and the Gothes for the Possession of Italy[1], London: George Bucke, Book 1, Chapter 10, p. 38:
- The Romains vnacquainted with such perills, wold not endure the hasard of the siege.
- 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, London: James Knapton, Volume 2, “Voyages to the Bay of Campeachy,” Chapter 1, p. 26,[2]
- […] from our Main-top we saw the Islands to the Southward of us, and being unacquainted, knew not whether we might find among them a Channel to pass through […]
- 1819, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
- “ […] Were my mother to see you—to know you, I am sure she would approve; but you are unacquainted personally, and the ancient feud between the families—”
- 1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet[3], Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 11:
- To commonplace actions he brought a special pedantic awkwardness. In Poland, France, England, students, young gentlemen of his time, had been unacquainted with kitchens. Now he did things that cooks and maids had once done.
- (obsolete) Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 66:
- Who when she saw Duessa sunny bright,
Adornd with gold and iewels shining cleare,
She greatly grew amazed at the sight,
And th’vnacquainted light began to feare:
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
- […] [we] fill up
Her enemies’ ranks,—I must withdraw and weep
Upon the spot of this enforced cause,—
To grace the gentry of a land remote,
And follow unacquainted colours here?
Translations edit
not acquainted
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References edit
- “unacquainted”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “unacquainted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.