Incurre vs Acquire - What's the difference?
incurre | acquire |
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)
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), chapter=3/19/2, title=
, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
As verbs the difference between incurre and acquire
is that incurre is while acquire is to get.incurre
Not English
Incurre has no English definition. It may be misspelled.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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