"familiarised" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when talking about becoming familiar with a concept or situation, or when introducing someone to a new environment or task. Example sentence: After months of careful training, she was familiarised with the safety protocols of the job.
In the interim, stem-cell research has familiarised Britons with the notion of tweaking nature, and the good it can do.
In that first painting, La Rue, he had familiarised us with a group of stylised individuals who, though oddly marionette-like, were still going about their daily lives of hurry and bustle.
"I can read it because I am familiarised," he continued.
Thirty years on, James Ellroy's early books remain fresh: he was writing about the monstrous psychopaths who later became familiarised as serial killers back when no else could even imagine people like that existed.
He grew up beneath the full panoply of "privilege", daunted by his forebears and familiarised, by dint of the institutionalised bullying, sadism and sexual molestations inherent in the public school system, to a world in which, if you want to get on, you must be inured to personal humiliation, terror and the routine exploitation of the weak by the strong.
Partly because the best-selling double album had familiarised us with the Andrew Lloyd Webber score and Tim Rice lyrics.
Similarly, the rough grey fabric that clings to the walls like a fungus in a number of the installations is identifiable to a familiarised eye as the blanket fabric used in some township homes, dormitories and even prisons across southern Africa during cooler months.
The school curriculum includes weekly classes in which boys are familiarised with the use of Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons.
Dealing with army men and methods familiarised him with certain techniques of close topographical observation and surveillance: with how to scrutinise and represent the physical distances and relationships between buildings, groups of people and places.
In his spare time, Ellis downloaded a few open-source software packages and familiarised himself with the basics of both languages.
When war came, she left her studies in order to train at an army hospital in Camberwell in south-east London and quickly familiarised herself with arduous working conditions, filth and cockroaches, exhaustion, gangrenous wounds and frequent death.
