All 3 Uses of
acquire
in
Washington Square
- I have done a mighty good thing for him in taking you abroad; your value is twice as great, with all the knowledge and taste that you have acquired.†
Chpt 24 *
- We doctors, you know, end by acquiring fine perceptions, and it is impressed upon my sensorium that he has sat in these chairs, in a very easy attitude, and warmed himself at that fire.†
Chpt 27
- She had suffered from it then; and now all her experience, all her acquired tranquillity and rigidity, protested.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)