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familiarize

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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.

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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Toni Morrison

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. Terence McKenna

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information. Jean Moulin

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. Francis Bacon

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. Walt Whitman

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. John Polkinghorne

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