a. ? Obs. [f. acquīsīt- ppl. stem of acquīrĕre: see ACQUIRE + -ITIOUS.] Of the nature or character of an acquisition; gained by exertion: acquired, as opposed to native or innate.
1653. A. Wilson, James I. His choler and fear … drew him with most violence, because they were not acquisititious, but natural.
1673. H. More, App. to Antid., i. § 2. 181. That there is no such idea of God at all as we have describ’d, neither innate, nor acquisititious.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 244. Consider here the temperament natural and acquisititious.
