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acquisitive, a.|əˈkwɪzɪtɪv|
[f. acquīsīt- ppl. stem of acquīrĕre (see acquire) + -ive, as if ad. L. *acquīsītīvus.]
Characterized by acquisition, Hence,
†1. Belonging to one by acquisition: that has been, or is liable to be, acquired; acquisititious. Obs.
1637Reliq. Wotton. 106 (1672) He died not in his Acquisitive but in his Native Soil. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. State i. xv. 48 Neither doth an apprentiship extinguish native, nor disinable to acquisitive Gentry.
2. Able, or given, to make acquisitions; acquiring.
1846Grote Greece I. i. 51 (1862) The knavish, smooth-tongued, keen and acquisitive Hermês. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. v. ii. 67 The sieging Turks, liberative Sobieskis, acquisitive Louis Fourteenths. 1870Bowen Logic x. 316 The beginning of all knowledge is in single acts of the Perceptive or Acquisitive Faculty. |