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/fəmˈɪljərˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Familiarize v. t. (past & past part. familiarized; pres. part. familiarizing)

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress; we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings.

To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self with a business, a book, or a science.

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Etymology of 'Familiarize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Familiarize" Quotes from Famous Books

... houses all these apartments were to be found, and in the same order. From the confined dwelling of the tradesman to the palace of the patrician, all degrees of accommodation and elegance were to be found. The only object of this long catalogue is to familiarize the reader with the general type of those objects which we are about to present to him, and to explain at once, and collectively, those terms of art which will be of most ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... Masters, trying to acquire the elegant proficiency in art-knowledge, which he has a groping sort of comprehension is a proper thing for a traveled man to be able to display. But what is the manner of his study? And what is the progress he achieves? To what extent does he familiarize himself with the great pictures of Italy, and what degree of appreciation does he arrive ...

— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain

... up the possibility of a child exhibiting symptoms of defective speech with the first utterance, let us familiarize ourselves with the fundamentals underlying the production ...

— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

... courage or audacity requisite to attempt the realization of these speculative schemes, must confess its origin in the fever-heat of the French Revolution. It required the bold example of that great political subversion to prompt the design of these social subversions—to familiarize the mind with the project of reducing into practice what had been deemed sufficiently adventurous ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various

... as touching the world to come; and as touching this world, to count "the grave my house, to make my bed in darkness, and to say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister." That is, to familiarize these ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

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