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acquest|əˈkwɛst|
[a. 16th c. Fr. acquest, mod. acquêt, OFr. aquest:—late L. acquīst-um, acquīsit-um for acquīsīt-um, pa. pple. (used subst.) of acquīr-ĕre, see acquire. The parallel form acquist follows the med.L. acquīstum, It. acquisto, and has been more generally used for the action or process, while acquest is commonly used for the thing acquired, in which sense it is used in Fr. and in jurisprudence.]
1. A thing acquired, an acquisition.
1622Bacon Hen. VII, 97 New Acquests are more Burthen, then Strength. 1622Heylin Cosmogr. (1682) i. 156 Being all (except Bretagne) the first acquests of the French. 1630Howell Lett. (1650) I. 385 The Romans sent legions..partly to secure their new acquests. 1671F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 536 That Earthly Honor which his great Acquests in the Study and Practice of the Law had gained him. a1734North Examen iii. vi. §95. 494 Mentioning the French King's Acquests in Flanders. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. IV. 11 England..was an acquest fully subject to the Conqueror's disposal.
†2. The action of acquiring. More commonly written acquist. See also quest, to which this sense often approached. Obs.
1613Sir A. Sherley Trav. to Persia 100 When if there be anything acquisited, the distribution of the members of that bodie is such, vpon whom the acquest is to be made, that there is no possible pretendence from one to the others getting. 1652M. Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 425 The detaining of the said people with their goods as also his suagement and award for the forfeiture and acquest of them, he hath justified before you. 1684J. Scott Chr. Life (ed. 3) 173 We are in the Acquest, and they in the Possession of the heavenly Canaan. 1713Derham Physico-Theol. iv. xi. 206 The peculiar structure of the principal Parts acting in the acquest of their Food. 1787J. Barlow Oration 4 July 16 He was..one of our principal supporters in the acquest of Independence.
3. Law. Property gained by purchase, or gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. |