Established vs Acquired - What's the difference?
established | acquired |
(establish)
Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
(acquire)
(medicine) Developed postfetally; not congenital.
As verbs the difference between established and acquired
is that established is (establish) while acquired is (acquire).As adjectives the difference between established and acquired
is that established is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area while acquired is (medicine) developed postfetally; not congenital.established
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.