acquirere

acquirere [CL] 1 to acquire, get, win. b (w. ut) to bring about. acquisitorum ‥ triumphorum felicitas Aldh. VirgP 12; cum ‥ non paucam Domino plebem adquisisset Bede HE III 21; ut aliquod lucrum mihi adquiram [AS: begyte] Ælf. Coll. 97; adquisivit Lavintone ‥ per pecuniam suam DB I 376b; sic jurando adquirat triplex judicium (Inst. Cnut.) GAS 325; laus dum vitatur ~itur Gir. EH I 4; qualiter dominia rerum adquiruntur de jure naturali Bracton 8b; 1314 quod ipse ‥ retineat . omnia bona mobilia que super inimicos nostros ‥ adquirere et occupare possit RScot 131b; 1345 reservata nobis libertate resumendi guerram per culpam ‥ Philippi nobis ‥ acquisita (Lit. Regis) Ad. Mur. 167; adquirit domino, nil adquirit sibi servus Gower VC VII 69; 1435 in vadio J. W. adquirentis, lucrantis et frangentis petras in quarera Fabr. York 55.  b rex, ‥ Biscop Baducing inveniens, ‥ ut in suo comitatu [Wilfridus] esset adquisivit Eddi 3. 2 (p. ppl. as sb. n.) acquisition, property acquired or purchased. 1225 ex dono Willelmi ‥ vj li. de adquisito de Sandwico DCCant. Ac. Thes. I 70a; 1277 beneficia que de nostro adquisito dictis fratribus assignavimus Reg. Malm. II 228; 1324 [land held] de acquisito Cal. IPM VI p. 367.