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(achieve)

Verb

(achiev)

To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

To carry out successfully; to accomplish.

* I. Taylor

Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.

(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:

Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].

To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

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* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v

Some are born great, some achieve greatness.

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Thou hast achieved our liberty.

(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.

* Prior

Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .

* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i

He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.

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:: He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of New South Wales in 1958 and went on to the Victoria University of Manchester where his studies on the fungal pigment phomazarin led to the award of a Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of (the late) Professor Arthur J. Birch.