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Webster 1913 Edition


Acquiry

Ac-quir′y

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Noun.
Acquirement.
[Obs.]
Barrow.

Webster 1828 Edition


Acquiry

ACQUI'RY

,
Noun.
Acquirement. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


acquiry

acquiry

English

Noun

acquiry (plural acquiries)

  1. (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