Meanings
verbdisacquaint (third-person singular simple present disacquaints, present participle disacquainting, simple past and past participle disacquainted)
present singular third person disacquaints · participle present disacquainting · participle past disacquainted · past disacquainted
- obsoletetransitiveTo render (someone or something) unacquainted; to make (someone or something) unfamiliar.
Thy ſcourge of ſteele, / (Ay me!) I feele, / Upon me beating ever: / VVhile my ſick heart / VVith diſmall ſmart / Is diſacquainted never.
1648, Robert Herrick, “[His Noble Numbers: Or, His Pious Pieces, […].] To His Angrie God.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 18
Origin
From dis- + acquaint: compare Old French desacointier.
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