Definition of "acquireth" [acquireth]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of acquire. (verb)

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• "Distributive are those that determine the rights of the subjects, declaring to every man what it is by which he acquireth and holdeth"
• "Every sin, the oftener it is committed, the more it acquireth in the quality of evil; as it succeeds in time, so it proceeds in degrees of badness; for as they proceed they ever multiply, and, like figures in arithmetick, the last stands for more than all that went before it."
• "He that desireth knowledge acquireth it and he that desireth felicity succeedeth in acquiring it."