Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person with whom one is acquainted. See
acquaintance , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An acquaintance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare An
acquaintance .
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I'm not really sure how acquaintant you are with political revolution history.
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In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser.
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In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser.
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In 1683, the year in which he died, Walton prefixed a preface to a work edited by him: Thealma and Clearchus, a Pastoral History, in smooth and easy verse; written long since by John Chalkhill Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser.
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John Chalkhill, the author of _Thealma and Clearchus_, was, with his work, introduced to the public in 1683 by Izaak Walton, who styles him "an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser."
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Chalkhill is described, on the title-page, as 'an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spencer,' which is impossible.
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But that an "acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser," capable of writing such a poem as _Thealma and Clearchus_, should have kept his talents so concealed, that in an age of commendatory verses no slightest contemporary record of him exists -- is, to say the least, extraordinary.
Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
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