Verb

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(garner)

Verb

(en verb)

To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.

To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.

* 1835 ,

I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.

* 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

* 1956 ,

...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.

(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.

He garnered a reputation as a language expert.

Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.

His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.

* 1983 ,

This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.

* 1999 ,

President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...

(rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

* 1849 ,

For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

Verb

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(obtain)

Verb

(en verb)

To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:

And a certayne ruler axed him: sayinge: Goode Master: what ought I to do, to obtaine eternall lyfe?

* 1814 , (Jane Austen), (Mansfield Park) :

Julia was quite as eager for novelty and pleasure as Maria, though she might not have struggled through so much to obtain them, and could better bear a subordinate situation.

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(obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.

* 1722 , (Daniel Defoe), (Colonel Jack) :

he was condemned to die for the felony, and being so well known for an old offender, had certainly died, but the merchant, upon his earnest application, had obtained that he should be transported, on condition that he restored all the rest of his bills, which he had done accordingly.

(obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.2:

“O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit; / For never sore but might a salve obtain [...].”

* 1701 , (Jonathan Swift), Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome :

This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained , and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth.

(obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.

* 1671 , (John Milton), (Paradise Regained) , Book I:

His mother then is mortal, but his Sire / He who obtains the monarchy of Heav'n, / And what will he not do to advance his Son?

To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

* 1908 , (Jack London), (The Iron Heel) , ,

Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt could obtain ; for the act in question was on a par with countless other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists.

* 1992 , (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash) , Bantam Spectra, p. 460,

But the hostage situation no longer obtains , and so Uncle Enzo feels it important to stop Rife now,