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Definition of Acquires
1. acquire [v] - See also: acquire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquires
Literary usage of Acquires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"THE RIGHT WHICH THE HUSBAND acquires TO THE PERSONAL ... THE husband, by marriage,
acquires an absolute title to all the personal property of the wife, ..."
2. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"COMSTOCK MANIPULATES MARGARET AND BILLY acquires A RESIDENCE -*,, SATURDAY morning
Elnora helped her mother with the work. When she had finished Mrs. ..."
3. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Thomas Atkinson Lawson (1897)
"In dissolving, a solid substance acquires a mobility of parts, and a gas loses
its elasticity, and therefore reactions often take placo in solutions which ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... which one does not succeed to as the heir ofanother, but acquires in his own
lifetime by purchase, donation, or other singular title — legally speaking, ..."