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acquest

American  
[uh-kwest] / əˈkwɛst /

noun

Law.

  1. property acquired other than by inheritance, as by purchase or gift.

Etymology

Origin of acquest

1605–15; < obsolete French < Vulgar Latin *acquaesitum that which has been acquired, noun use of *acquaesitus (past participle of *acquaerere to acquire, alteration of Latin acquīrere to acquire )

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And in the pursuit and acquest of this knowledge he stuck neither at any labour or cost.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

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