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)

  1. (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; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:
      While my sick heart / With dismal smart / Is disacquainted never.
      The spelling has been modernized.

References

“disacquaint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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