FAMIL'IARIZE, verb transitive 1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known, by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self to scenes of distress. 2. To make easy by practice or customary use, or by intercourse. 3. To bring down from a state of distant superiority. The genius smiled on me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI