Acquaint, to make to know, to impart knowledge; with of: “to a. her of it,” Ado III, 1, 40. Wint. II, 2, 48. IV, 4, 423. R3 I, 3, 106 (Qq with). Rom. III, 4, 16. Cymb. I, 6, 149. With with: Brutus --ed the people with the doer, Lucr. Arg. Cymb. I, 6, 149 Tp. II, 2, 41. Wiv. IV, 6, 8. Meas. I, 2, 184. Ado I, 2, 22. LLL V, 1, 122. Merch. I, 2, 110. IV, 1, 154. As I, 1, 128. As I, 1, 128 Alls I, 3, 124. II, 3, 304. Wint. IV, 4, 696. John V, 2, 89. V, 6, 25. R3 III, 5, 65. IV, 4, 329. Tit. II, 1, 122. Mcb. III, 1, 130. Hml. I, 1, 172. Lr. I, 2, 110. I, 5, 2. Ant. III, 6, 58. “--ed with:” Sonn. 20, 3. 88, 5. Gent. IV, 4, 25. Wiv. II, 1, 90. II, 2, 151. II, 2, 151 III, 1, 68. Meas. II, 1, 214. IV, 1, 51. Err. IV, 3, 91. Merch. IV, 1, 171. As III, 2, 288. IV, 1, 2. Shr. IV, 1, 155. IV, 4, 26. Alls III, 7, 5. IV, 1, 10. V, 3, 106. H4B II, 1, 120. III, 2, 353. R3 IV, 4, 269. H8 V, 1, 170. Troil. II, 3, 122. Tim. III, 3, 38. Caes. II, 1, 256. Oth. III, 3, 99. Per. IV, 6, 210. Followed by a clause: “--ed each other how they loved me,” Wiv. II, 2, 114. “to acquaint his grace you are gone,” Alls III, 6, 84. “a. you that I have received,” H4B IV, 1, 7. “shall be --ed for what you come,” H8 II, 2, 108.
The partic. absol.: “I am as well --ed here as I was in our house,” Meas. IV, 3, 1. “what need she be --ed?” Err. III, 2, 15 (what need she know it?). “be better --ed,” Cymb. I, 4, 132 (i. e. with each other; cf. Kiss, Know, Love, See etc.). Once == well known: that war, or peace, or both at once, may be as things --ed and familiar to us<*> H4B V, 2, 139.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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