Word Meanings - PREACQUAINTANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.

Related words: (words related to PREACQUAINTANCE)

• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• ACQUAINTANCESHIP
  A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.
• PREVIOUS
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
• KNOWLEDGE
  The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• UNACQUAINTANCE
  The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance. He was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity. Sir W. Hamilton.
• FOREKNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
• NONACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance; the state of being unacquainted.
• DISACKNOWLEDGE
  To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South.
• SELF-KNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
• INTERKNOWLEDGE
  Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. Bacon.
• ACKNOWLEDGEDLY
  Confessedly.
• DISACQUAINTANCE
  Neglect of disuse of familiarity, or familiar acquaintance. South.