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ˌinˈquaintance nonce-wd.,
fancifully used by (and after) Coleridge for ‘intimate acquaintance’. So inˈquainted ppl. a.
a1834Coleridge in Fraser's Mag. (1835) XI. 54 Friendships..The sorts, methinks, may be reduced to three. Acquaintance many, and Conquaintance few; But for Inquaintance I know only two—The friend I've mourned with, and the maid I woo! 1840Ibid. XXII. 613 There must be a want of ‘inquaintance’ (if I may borrow Coleridge's word) with the spirit of Shakspeare's plays. 1849Ibid. XL. 537 Both were intimately acquainted, or rather, in Coleridge's fanciful phraseology, inquainted, with the works of Plutarch and Montaigne. |