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Webster 1913 Edition
Acquiry
Ac-quir′y
,Noun.
Acquirement.
[Obs.]
Barrow.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acquiry
ACQUI'RY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
acquiry
acquiry
English
Noun
acquiry (plural acquiries)
- (obsolete): acquirement
- ca.1670:No art requireth more hard study and pain toward the acquiry of it than contentment. Isaac Barrow, Sermons, III, 62.
References
- acquiry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914