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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
familiarise .
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Examples
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Playing through the singleplayer component of a title familiarises you with the gameplay a lot quicker than multiplayer does.
Latest from PALGN 2009
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But custom familiarises one to anything, and there were so many bridges that it took a very short time to get used to this.
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Institute an aggressive national programme of civic education that familiarises all citizens with the Constitution, new structures, citizen rights and obligations, participation and so forth.
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With the solution of the problems confronting South Africa, Angola and Mozambique, it will be a good place to be for any investor who familiarises himself or herself with its particularities.
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With the solution of the problems confronting South Africa, Angola and Mozambique, it will be a good place to be for any investor who familiarises himself or herself with its particularities.
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He protests against excessive cruelty in the infliction of legal penalties, and especially against the use of torture, on two grounds; first, that experience demonstrates the uselessness of these superfluous rigours; and, second, that the habit of witnessing atrocious punishments familiarises both criminals and others with the idea of cruelty.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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And further, habit familiarises with evil and diminishes our sense of it as evil.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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While language familiarises with non-rational relations, science familiarises with rational relations.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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Step by step she familiarises her little boy with the names of the simpler attributes, hardness, softness, colour, taste, size: in doing which she finds him eagerly help by bringing this to show her that it is red, and the other to make her feel that it is hard, as fast as she gives him words for these properties.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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The more science familiarises us with the constitution of things, the more do we see in them an inherent self-sufficingness.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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