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▪ I. acquire, v.|əˈkwaɪə(r)|
Forms: 5 aqwere, acquere, 6 acquyre.
[a. OFr. aquer-re, acquer-re:—L. acquīr-ĕre to get in addition; f. ac- = ad- to + quærĕre to seek. Refashioned in 6 after L.]
1. a. To gain, obtain, or get as one's own, to gain the ownership of (by one's own exertions or qualities).
c1435Seven Sages (P.) 1080 Thanne the childe were gode of lore, Ȝyt he wolde aqwere more. 1483Caxton Cato x viij. These fyue goodes acqueren the juste and good folke after their dethe. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 8 In the verie..Whirle-winde of Passion, you must acquire, and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothnesse. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 173 For what w'acquire by Pains and Art Is only due t'our own Desert. 1769Junius Lett. iii. 17 He has acquired nothing but honour in the field. 1847J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. ix. 93 But if the clergy thus acquired riches, they applied them to the noblest purposes.
b. Const. for (to or dat. obj. obs.).
1601Shakes. All's Well iv. iii. 80 The great dignitie that his valour hath here acquir'd for him. 1624Gataker Transubst. 144 Thereby to acquire judgement or condemnation to themselves. 1656W. Montagu Accompl. Wom. 1 Such a kind of wit acquires us a command as powerful as pleasing. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. (1817) I. ii. 382 Another circumstance contributed to acquire the Regent such considerable influence.
2. To receive, or get as one's own (without reference to the manner), to come into possession of.
1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iii. 9 Pompe, the which To leaue, a thousand fold more bitter, then 'Tis sweet at first t'acquire. 1758Johnson Idler No. 9 ⁋8 The Idler acquires weight by lying still. 1818Accum Chem. Tests 167 The mixture will acquire an orange colour. 1862Ruskin Unto this Last 130 If, in the exchange, one man is able to give what cost him little labour for what has cost the other much, he acquires a certain quantity of the produce of the other's labour. And precisely what he acquires the other loses.
†3. ‘To come to, to attain.’ J. Obs. rare.
1665Glanville Scepsis Sci. xi. 60 Motion cannot be perceived without the perception of its terms, viz. the parts of space which it immediately left, and those which it next acquires..Now the space left and acquir'd in such slow progressions is so inconsiderable that, etc.
4. Of radar or a radar operator: to begin receiving signals from; to locate.
1962A. Shepard in Into Orbit 171 Once the spacecraft goes into orbit, the stations pass it on from one to the other... Their radar devices ‘acquire’ it first, then lock on to it and follow it until it leaves their area. 1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon iv. 78 Apollo 11 about to be acquired at the Tananarive (Malagasy Republic) station. 1975D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xxv. 58 Targets for high-resolution trackers must be designated with reasonable accuracy if they are to be acquired when near the threshold of sensitivity.
¶ Confused with enquire and require. See ad- 2.
1624Heywood Gunaikeion ii. 57 None at that age acquires after things unknown. 1553–87Foxe A. & M. II. 48/2 (1684) The Cardinal hath acquired, at the commandment of the Pope, three things of me to be observed.
▪ II. † aˈcquire, n. Obs. rare—1.
Also 6 acquier.
[f. the vb.]
Acquirement or gain.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie iii. 116 An English squier Had tane Flauigni, cald John Dalison, Wherein prouision was of great acquier, With as good wine as need would well desier. |