Ensue vs Acquire - What's the difference?
ensue | acquire |
(obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
* Golding
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:
*:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
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 ensue and acquire
is that ensue is (obsolete|transitive) to follow (a leader, inclination etc) while acquire is to get.ensue
English
Verb
(ensu)- to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].
- To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
- Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .
Anagrams
* *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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