All 3 Uses of
acquire
in
The Idiot
- He was a widower, and had no relations left, excepting the prince's aunt, a poor woman living on charity, who was herself at the point of death from dropsy; but who had time, before she died, to set Salaskin to work to find her nephew, and to make her will bequeathing her newly-acquired fortune to him.†
Chpt 1.16 *acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- By doing this they have been able to persuade themselves, without further trouble, that they have acquired new convictions of their own.†
Chpt 4.1
- This gentleman belonged to a German family of decidedly bourgeois origin, but he had a knack of acquiring the patronage of "big-wigs," and of retaining their favour.†
Chpt 4.6acquiring = obtaining (coming into possession of)
Definition:
obtain (come into the possession of something)