Verb

(ensu)

(obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:

to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].

* Golding

To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.

*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:

*:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!

Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .

Verb

(acquir)

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)

No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.

* (William Blackstone) (1723-1780)

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.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), chapter=3/19/2, title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

, 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.}}