Acquire vs Acquest - What's the difference?
acquire | acquest |
To get.
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own, as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
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(rare) Acquisition; the thing gained.
(legal) property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.
As a verb acquire
is to get.As a noun acquest is
(rare) acquisition; the thing gained.acquire
English
Verb
(acquir)- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.
- Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
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Synonyms
* attain, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, winDerived terms
* acquired tasteacquest
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- (John Bouvier)