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Meanings of familiarised in English

Having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment.

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Usage of familiarised in English
1
The mind of the young girl was corrupted; she was familiarised with vice.
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2
The incident of the morning had familiarised the rumour into gossip.
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3
Religion had familiarised her mind with the image of the destroyer.
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4
Therefore he familiarised Henry with sense that a reformation was inevitable.
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5
By insensible degrees, I became familiarised with vice, and callous to its approach.
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6
It familiarised him with steady work, and cultivated in him the spirit of patience.
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7
He had familiarised himself with the thought of his advocacy during those four years.
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8
The subject of these sculptures has been familiarised to the visitor in the Phigaleian marbles.
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9
They become so familiarised with it that their sense of comparison is dulled and blunted.
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10
Gibson said she did not know and had "not familiarised myself with the business".
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11
The previous night I had familiarised myself with the complexities of the different strands of negotiation.
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12
We may remark in passing, that if anything be once familiarised with anything, it is content.
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13
Two genitives dependent on one another, unless familiarised by idiom, have an awkward effect in English.
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14
The idea has become familiarised to us by reading, but the fact is none the less marvellous.
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15
The imagination becomes familiarised with the deed.
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We had now become so familiarised to this sort of life, that we thought nothing of it.
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