What is "aquire"

Usage examples of "aquire".

The absolute idea that gave meaning to our lives has aquired a face whose features we no longer recognise.

The house of God had aquired a post-apocalyptic gloss since the last priest fled.

My dear friend Dzhidro Alprendauro met Arnesen on the occasion of his departure from Bromfkidor which is how he aquired his familiarity with the Danish language, and he felt that Arnesen sensed that the Bromfkidoran government could not be trusted and was filled with fear of ever returning to that region, as a result.

An international law promulgated in 1976 states that a nation must plant flags and maintain a permanent force on all sides of a satellite or planetary body it is is to aquire it permanently.

Even if its maker had been aware of it, there was no way to build into a machine of cogs and gears as gross as this one the slow, the vast fall of the Cosmos backward through the Zodiac, the so-called precession of the equinoxes--that unimaginably stately grand tour which would take some twenty thousand years longer, until once again the spring equinox coincided with the first degrees of Aries: where conventional astrology for convenience's sake assumes it always to be, and where Hawksquill had found it fixed in her Cosmo-Opticon when she had first aquired the thing.