disacquaintv.
/ˌdɪsəˈkweɪnt/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈkweɪnt/ rare after 17th cent.
transitive. To make no longer acquainted; to break off an acquaintance with, to estrange; to make unfamiliar with a person or thing. Also reflexive.In quot. 1567: to make (grief) no longer familiar or usual.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > deprive of knowledge of [verb (transitive)]
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)] > render unfamiliar
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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xvi. f. 16 Ye must now disacquaint and estraunge yourselfes from the sour old wine of Moses lawe.
1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Djv Seeke how to chase that griefe awaye To make it disaquaynted.
1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 89 This kind of dealing..will in a little time dis-acquaint the Soul with them, and make the Soul and them strangers one to another.
1984 Salmagundi Spring 123 Contemporary poetry has, by disacquainting itself with all its progenitive forms save the low short lyric, ceased to struggle for its own aesthetic.
Derivatives
disaˈcquainted adj. no longer acquainted with a person or thing; (also) unfamiliar with.
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1626 B. Holyday 3 Serm. 33 The glad carcasses by the returne of their disacquainted soules can no more then their soules endure the Graue.
1658 Agreement Assoc. Ministers Essex Pref. sig. A3. Many of the elder sort..are ready to let go their hold of the Truth; and most of the younger..disacquainted with the very principles of Christianity, are never like to take sure hold of it.
1883 Gentleman's Mag. June 590 We are disacquainted with a person, to whom we were formerly more or less known.
1980 Daily Republican-Reg. (Mt. Carmel, Illinois) 4 Apr. 4//1 A subject he was disacquainted with.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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