acquirement

[ACQUIRE.] 1. The act of acquiring or obtaining any desirable object, such as wealth or other property, skill in manual work, intellectual attainments. conce ion, on acquirement , and usurpation, to be "... had grown, in the course of centuries, what we see it."- Carlyle : French Revolution, pt. 1., bk. iii, ch. v. 2. The object gained. Used almost exclusively of those intellectual conquests which one makes by the use of his talents, as opposed to the talents themselves. "That party was not large; but the abilities, ac quirements, and virtues of those who belonged to it made it respectable."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. vii.