a. [f. acquīsīt- ppl. stem of acquīrĕre (see ACQUIRE) + -IVE, as if ad. L. *acquīsītīvus.] Characterized by acquisition, Hence,

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  † 1.  Belonging to one by acquisition; that has been, or is liable to be, acquired; acquisititious. Obs.

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1637.  Reliq. Wotton., 106 (1672). He died not in his Acquisitive but in his Native Soil.

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1642.  Fuller, Holy & Prof. State, I. xv. 48. Neither doth an apprentiship extinguish native, nor disinable to acquisitive Gentry.

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  2.  Able, or given, to make acquisitions; acquiring.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, I. I. 51 (1862). The knavish, smooth-tongued, keen and acquisitive Hermês.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. V. ii. 67. The sieging Turks, liberative Sobieskis, acquisitive Louis Fourteenths.

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

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