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acquisiˈtitious, a. ? Obs. [f. acquīsīt- ppl. stem of acquīrĕre: see acquire + -itious.] Of the nature or character of an acquisition; gained by exertion; acquired, as opposed to native or innate.
1653A. Wilson James I, His choler and fear..drew him with most violence, because they were not acquisititious, but natural. 1673H. More App. to Antid. i. §2. 181 That there is no such idea of God at all as we have describ'd, neither innate, nor acquisititious. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 244 Consider here the temperament natural and acquisititious. |