Definition of "unacquired" [unacquired]

• Not acquired; not gained.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There were two: failing to finish da nobble, or even work on it significantly, which was more a failure of the as yet unacquired skill of matching my expectations to my abilities."
• "Sellars (1963, 132) thought the classical empiricist given was an inconsistent triad of three claims: (1) being appeared to as if there were something red entails non-inferentially knowing that one is appeared red to, (2) the ability to be appeared to is unacquired, and (3) the ability to know facts of the form x is F is acquired."
• "The art of reading well is one of those rare accomplishments which all wish to possess, a few think they have, while others who see and believe that it is not the unacquired gift of genius, labour to obtain it, and it will be found that excellence in this, as in everything else of value, is the result of well-directed effort, and the reward of unremitting industry."