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n. 1 (context legal English) (abbreviation of America English) 2 (context legal English) (abbreviation of American English)
Usage examples of "am.".
An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.
As the hour for supper drew near, I excused myself so well that Madame Orio could not insist upon my accepting her invitation to stay.
Beside myself with rage, blushing for very shame, seeing but too late the fault I had committed by accepting the society of a scoundrel, I went up to my room, and hurriedly packed up my carpet-bag.
I did not dare to light my lamp before this creature, and as night drew on he decided on accepting some bread and Cyprus wine, and he was afterwards obliged to do as best he could with my mattress, which was now the common bed of all new-comers.
Out of politeness the countess looked at her husband before accepting the invitation, but he cried out, without ceremony, that he was ready to go if I took the whole family.
Go and ask Mengs, and tell the ambassador that I have much pleasure in accepting his invitation.
I am much better acquainted with the young man, but he never confided his project to me.
I left the coffee-room with the young Frenchman, who, being well acquainted with the place, took me to the most favourable spot, and we waited there for the two other champions, who were walking slowly and talking together.
I had likewise occasion to become acquainted at the Venetian Embassy with a lady from Venice, the widow of an English baronet named Wynne.
My answers were rather obscure in such matters as I was not specially acquainted with, but they were very clear concerning her disease, and my oracle became precious and necessary to her highness.
No one knew the Chevalier de Talvis, and the French ambassador was not even acquainted with his name.
I firmly believe that it was through the interference of Heaven that we became acquainted the day before yesterday.
She related to me in the most assuring manner that the handsomest of all the nuns in the convent loved her to distraction, gave her a French lesson twice a-day, and had amicably forbidden her to become acquainted with the other boarders.
About this time my destiny made me acquainted with a nobleman called Mark Antony Zorzi, a man of parts and famous for his skill in writing verses in the Venetian dialect.
She did not like to tell the noble canon, and thinking that I was more likely to be acquainted with such emergencies she came up to me and told me all.