acquire

t. [Lat. acquiro, -isivi, -isitum = to acquire: ad = to; quæro = to look or search for; O. Fr. acquerre, aquerre; Prov. acquirir; Fr. acquérir; Ital. acquis it are.] 1. Of man: To gain material po e ions by gift, by purchase, by conquest, or in any other way; also to make intellectual attainments by study, to gain skill in manual employment, . kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, lordships, acquired in different ways."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng.. ch. xxiii. had indeed acquired more learning than his slender faculties were able to bear."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiv. 2. Of the inferior animals, animals or plants organs, or inanimate things . "... these organs acquire individual characters." -Orwen: Mammal i a (1859), p. 17.