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The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

Acquired. [Obs.] He died not in his acquisitive, but in his native soil. Wotton.

In the way of acquisition.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

One who acquires.

Acquitted; set free; rid of. [Archaic] Shak.

Acquittal. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

One who acquits or releases.

The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

The lowest groups of animals, in which no nervous system has been observed.

Of or pertaining to the Acrita. -- n. An individual of the Acrita.

Acritan. Owen.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

Color blindness; achromatopsy.

Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]

Sharpness; keenness. [Obs.]

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.