Chiefly Sc. [UN-1 7.] = UNACQUAINTED ppl. a. (Usu. const. with.)
1587. T. Hughes, Misfort. Arthur, Induct. Good ladies, unacquaint with cunning reach.
1587. W. Fowler, Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 26. The habit proude, vnsene, vnvsd, all new and vnacquent, I thair beheld.
1611. Sir W. Mure, Misc. Poems, ii. 47. Scho, spying me ȝit wnacquaint in loue, Hir new got dairts throught my puir hert did roue. Ibid. (1628), Doomesday, 643. Satietie, which vnacquent With loathing, doth arise.
a. 1699. Kirkton, Hist. Ch. Scotl. (1817), 280. Maxwell,… because he was unacquaint in the town,… came running into Nicol Moffat, stabler, his house in Horse-Wynd.
1716. Wodrow, Corr. (1843), II. 216. Your Reverend colleague, to whom, though unacquaint, I give my dearest respects.
a. 1758. Ramsay, Some of the Contents, v. Thair forbeirs were unacquaint with feir.
1822. Galt, Provost, xxvi. We were unacquaint with the character of the man.
1840. Lowell, Irene, 23. And, though herself not unacquaint with care, Hath in her heart wide room for all that be.
