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The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.
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v. i.
To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
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The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.
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Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural.
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Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
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Not gotten; not acquired.
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An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preeminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc.
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An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.
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The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.
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A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
v. t.
To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
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A person who acquires.
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The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
v. t.
To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
adv.
Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like.
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A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.
v. t.
To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
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In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
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