Acquaintance, 1) the state of being known to each other, of being acquainted with a thing or person: Sonn. 89, 8. Sonn. 89, 8 Tp. V, 186. Wiv. I, 1, 255. II, 2, 168. II, 2, 168 Ado V, 1, 341. Mids. III, 1, 185. Mids. III, 1, 185 Mids. III, 1, 185 As V, 2, 1. As V, 2, 1 Tw. I, 3, 56. V, 91. John V, 6, 13. H4B III, 2, 314. H8 III, 1, 161. Troil. III, 3, 9. Cor. V, 1, 10. Rom. III, 3, 5. Lr. IV, 3, 56. Oth. IV, 2, 192 (Q1 acquittance). Cymb. I, 4, 25. Per. IV, 6, 206. “to have a. with,” As I, 3, 50. “to hold my a. with,” Alls II, 3, 240. “to hold a. with the waves,” Tw. I, 2, 16. to take a.: “thou shalt find those children nursed, delivered from thy brain, to take a new a. of thy mind,” Sonn. 77, 12; i. e. thy mind will become anew acquainted with its own thoughts, which had been quite lost from its memory and now seem new to it.
2) a person well known: “what, old a.!” H4A V, 4, 102. Oftener collectively, persons well known, or acquainted with each other: “both stood like old a.” Lucr. 1595. Merch. II, 2, 181. Shr. I, 1, 34. Tw. II, 5, 176. H4A I, 1, 16. H4B III, 2, 38. H8 I, 2, 47. Oth. II, 1, 205.
In the language of Evans == acquainted: Wiv. I, 2, 8.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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