disacquaint
English
Etymology
dis- + acquaint: compare Old French desacointier.
Verb
disacquaint (third-person singular simple present disacquaints, present participle disacquainting, simple past and past participle disacquainted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “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 1044244285; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, OCLC 1110372590:
- While my sick heart / With dismal smart / Is disacquainted never.
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References
disacquaint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913