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OBTAINING |
Acquiring |
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LEARNING |
Acquiring skill |
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ASSECUTION |
An obtaining or acquiring. |
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BIBLIOMANIA |
A mania for acquiring books. |
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ACQUISITION |
The act or process of acquiring. |
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STUDY |
The devotion of time to acquiring knowledge |
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GETTING |
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. |
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PURCHASE |
The act of seeking and acquiring property. |
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FIBRINATION |
The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin. |
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ACQUIREMENT |
The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired;
attainment. |
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CONQUEST |
The acquiring of property by other means than by
inheritance; acquisition. |
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ACQUISITIVE |
Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as,
an acquisitive person or disposition. |
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ACQUISITIVENESS |
The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute
the desire of acquiring and possessing. |
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STRIP |
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without
acquiring the spiral motion. |
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UNIVERSITY |
An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp.
one capable of having and acquiring property. |
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EVECTICS |
The branch of medical science which teaches the method of
acquiring a good habit of body. |
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OUTWIT |
The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and
experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. |
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CHRESTOMATHY |
A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used
in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. |
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CADET |
A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer,
with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission. |
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LEARN |
To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in
acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction;
as, this child learns quickly. |
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SCHOOL |
...an
institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for
acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the
prophet... |
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HOMESTEADER |
One who has entered upon a portion of the public land
with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the
homestead law, so c... |
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SQUATTER |
...nt land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring
title. ... |
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ACCESSION |
A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a
corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor,
has a right to the... |
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FORFEIT |
...a
breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is
forfeited. ... |