Both Uses of
acquire
in
Candide
- " 'I was born at Naples,' said he, 'there they geld two or three thousand children every year; some die of the operation, others acquire a voice more beautiful than that of women, and others are raised to offices of state.†
Chpt 12
- In all our Italy we write only what we do not think; those who inhabit the country of the Caesars and the Antoninuses dare not acquire a single idea without the permission of a Dominican friar.†
Chpt 25 *
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)