acquisitiveadj.

Brit.

/əˈkwɪzᵻtɪv/, U.S.

/əˈkwɪzᵻdɪv/,

/æˈkwɪzᵻdɪv/

Forms: 1500s–1600s acquisitiue, 1600s– acquisitive.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French acquisitif; Latin acquisitivus.

Etymology: < Middle French, French †acquisitif that is, has been, or is capable of being acquired (a1450; obsolete after early 17th cent.) and its etymon post-classical Latin acquisitivus of, relating to, or concerned with acquisition (6th cent. in philosophy (compare quot. 1598 at sense 1a) and grammar (compare quot. 1653 at sense 1a)) < classical Latin acquīsīt- , past participial stem of acquīrere acquire v. + -īvus -ive suffix. Compare Spanish †acquisitivo (a1428 (as †aquisitivo ) and c1604 in two apparently isolated attestations), Italian acquisitivo capable of being acquired (a1585). With the use in quot. 1598, compare Middle French acquisitive (feminine noun) art of acquiring goods (1372; 1576 in the passage translated in quot. 1598 at sense 1a). With sense 1b compare earlier inquisitive adj.

a. Of, relating to, or involving acquisition.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > having quality of

acquisitive1598

procurative1633

1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques i. 33 The Acquisitiue facultie or Art of getting and prouiding goods [Fr. l'acquisitiue ou art d'acquerir biens], differeth from these forenamed faculties.

1653 R. Lloyd Latine Gram. 78 In the Dative acquisitive Gerunds are construed either with verbs..or with Adiectives.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iv. i. 442 The act of the will..is acquisitive and effective, or recusative and destructive.

1760 E. Macfait Remarks Life & Writings Plato 167 Arts are twofold, Effective, as agriculture, &c. Acquisitive, as hunting, fishing, &c.

1815 J. Bentham Chrestomathia ii. 1 Imbibitive, Acquisitive exercises: exercises, by the performance of which, instruction or learning is imbibed, acquired, obtained.

1845 Phrenological Jrnl. 82 80 The accused was afflicted with the monomania of theft and had the acquisitive organ very largely developed.

1870 F. C. Bowen Logic x. 316 The beginning of all knowledge is in single acts of the Perceptive or Acquisitive Faculty.

1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. ii. iv. 81 Our law [in the 13th century] knew no acquisitive prescription for land, it merely knew a limitation of actions.

1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea vii. 114 The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

1993 RTZ Corporation: Interim Rep. 8 Sept. 1 A major new business unit was established..capable of both organic and acquisitive growth.

1998 Independent 6 June i. 28/4 Smackheads tend to involve themselves in what the police call ‘acquisitive crimes’—shoplifting, burglary and car theft.

b. Having the ability, propensity, or desire to acquire things; esp. excessively concerned with material gain; greedy, avaricious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > inordinately desirous of possessions

greedya1000

overgreedyOE

avarous1303

covetous1340

concupiscible1398

avaricious1474

silver-sick?a1500

lucrous1511

having1528

lucrative1549

concupiscentious1555

holding1569

griping?1573

concupiscential1577

over-havinga1600

gripulous1614

ingordigious1637

concupitive1651

appropriative1655

lucripetous1675

coveting1699

grasping1747

concupiscenta1834

acquisitive1846

pleonectic1858

big-eye1868

wanting1876

possessive1889

grabby1910

gold-digging1925

territorial1966

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 80 The knavish, smooth-tongued, keen, and acquisitive Hermês.

1848 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. & Misc. 10 116 Laban, another of this acquisitive family, showed the same grasping love of riches.

1873 W. E. Marshall Phrenologist among Todas v. 57 A laborious, acquisitive race, conserving the glorious water supply, would render this land a paradise.

1918 19th Cent. Dec. 992 The acquisitive commercialists and financiers of Germany.

1933 ‘E. Cambridge’ Hostages to Fortune iii. 47 A Belgian family had come first... They were hard-working, thrifty, acquisitive.

2002 Amer. Enterprise (Nexis) 1 June 36 New York's social system was dominated early on by a high-spending pleasure-minded acquisitive class devoted to material accumulation.

†2. That is, has been, or is capable of being acquired. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > able to be

procurablec1449

purveyable1542

gettable1553

extant1555

parable1563

acquirable1606

gainable1611

purchasable1611

obtainablea1617

acquisitive1629

haveable1639

producible1640

come-at-able?1685

derivablea1711

attainable1712

embraceable1841

graspable1868

securable1876

1629 E. Bolton Cities Aduocate ii. 17 If the very act of binding to performance, be a sufficient reason to make Apprentises a kinde of bondmen, and so to disenable them to Gentry, either deriuatiue, or acquisitiue, the Masters themselues are also a kinde of bondmen.

a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 106 He died not in his Acquisitive but in his Native Soil.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xv. 48 Neither doth an apprentiship extinguish native, nor disinable to acquisitive Gentry.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	acquisitive
释义	acquisitiveadj. Brit. /əˈkwɪzᵻtɪv/, U.S. /əˈkwɪzᵻdɪv/, /æˈkwɪzᵻdɪv/ Forms: 1500s–1600s acquisitiue, 1600s– acquisitive. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French acquisitif; Latin acquisitivus. Etymology: < Middle French, French †acquisitif that is, has been, or is capable of being acquired (a1450; obsolete after early 17th cent.) and its etymon post-classical Latin acquisitivus of, relating to, or concerned with acquisition (6th cent. in philosophy (compare quot. 1598 at sense 1a) and grammar (compare quot. 1653 at sense 1a)) < classical Latin acquīsīt- , past participial stem of acquīrere acquire v. + -īvus -ive suffix. Compare Spanish †acquisitivo (a1428 (as †aquisitivo ) and c1604 in two apparently isolated attestations), Italian acquisitivo capable of being acquired (a1585). With the use in quot. 1598, compare Middle French acquisitive (feminine noun) art of acquiring goods (1372; 1576 in the passage translated in quot. 1598 at sense 1a). With sense 1b compare earlier inquisitive adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or involving acquisition. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > having quality of acquisitive1598 procurative1633 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques i. 33 The Acquisitiue facultie or Art of getting and prouiding goods [Fr. l'acquisitiue ou art d'acquerir biens], differeth from these forenamed faculties. 1653 R. Lloyd Latine Gram. 78 In the Dative acquisitive Gerunds are construed either with verbs..or with Adiectives. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II. iv. i. 442 The act of the will..is acquisitive and effective, or recusative and destructive. 1760 E. Macfait Remarks Life & Writings Plato 167 Arts are twofold, Effective, as agriculture, &c. Acquisitive, as hunting, fishing, &c. 1815 J. Bentham Chrestomathia ii. 1 Imbibitive, Acquisitive exercises: exercises, by the performance of which, instruction or learning is imbibed, acquired, obtained. 1845 Phrenological Jrnl. 82 80 The accused was afflicted with the monomania of theft and had the acquisitive organ very largely developed. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic x. 316 The beginning of all knowledge is in single acts of the Perceptive or Acquisitive Faculty. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law II. ii. iv. 81 Our law [in the 13th century] knew no acquisitive prescription for land, it merely knew a limitation of actions. 1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea vii. 114 The acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. 1993 RTZ Corporation: Interim Rep. 8 Sept. 1 A major new business unit was established..capable of both organic and acquisitive growth. 1998 Independent 6 June i. 28/4 Smackheads tend to involve themselves in what the police call ‘acquisitive crimes’—shoplifting, burglary and car theft. b. Having the ability, propensity, or desire to acquire things; esp. excessively concerned with material gain; greedy, avaricious. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > inordinate or excessive desire > [adjective] > inordinately desirous of possessions greedya1000 overgreedyOE avarous1303 covetous1340 concupiscible1398 avaricious1474 silver-sick?a1500 lucrous1511 having1528 lucrative1549 concupiscentious1555 holding1569 griping?1573 concupiscential1577 over-havinga1600 gripulous1614 ingordigious1637 concupitive1651 appropriative1655 lucripetous1675 coveting1699 grasping1747 concupiscenta1834 acquisitive1846 pleonectic1858 big-eye1868 wanting1876 possessive1889 grabby1910 gold-digging1925 territorial1966 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. i. 80 The knavish, smooth-tongued, keen, and acquisitive Hermês. 1848 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. & Misc. 10 116 Laban, another of this acquisitive family, showed the same grasping love of riches. 1873 W. E. Marshall Phrenologist among Todas v. 57 A laborious, acquisitive race, conserving the glorious water supply, would render this land a paradise. 1918 19th Cent. Dec. 992 The acquisitive commercialists and financiers of Germany. 1933 ‘E. Cambridge’ Hostages to Fortune iii. 47 A Belgian family had come first... They were hard-working, thrifty, acquisitive. 2002 Amer. Enterprise (Nexis) 1 June 36 New York's social system was dominated early on by a high-spending pleasure-minded acquisitive class devoted to material accumulation. †2. That is, has been, or is capable of being acquired. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > able to be procurablec1449 purveyable1542 gettable1553 extant1555 parable1563 acquirable1606 gainable1611 purchasable1611 obtainablea1617 acquisitive1629 haveable1639 producible1640 come-at-able?1685 derivablea1711 attainable1712 embraceable1841 graspable1868 securable1876 1629 E. Bolton Cities Aduocate ii. 17 If the very act of binding to performance, be a sufficient reason to make Apprentises a kinde of bondmen, and so to disenable them to Gentry, either deriuatiue, or acquisitiue, the Masters themselues are also a kinde of bondmen. a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 106 He died not in his Acquisitive but in his Native Soil. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xv. 48 Neither doth an apprentiship extinguish native, nor disinable to acquisitive Gentry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1598
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