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US
/əˈkwaɪɝd/
]
[ UK /ɐkwˈaɪəd/ ]
[ UK /ɐkwˈaɪəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
gotten through environmental forces
acquired characteristics (such as a suntan or a broken nose) cannot be passed on
How To Use acquired In A Sentence
- Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
- Acquired forms of growth hormone deficiency include tumors of the pituitary, hypothalamus and optic nerve.
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- The mancipable (conveyable or movable) possessions of a woman who is under tutelage of [her] agnates [18] shall not be acquired rightfully by usucapion (long usage or long possession), save if these The Twelve Tables
- Within the first year, his group of prosectors had completed summaries on more than 1000 autopsies, carefully documenting every congenital and acquired lesion and cataloging the abnormalities.
- Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa. D. Africa, 500-1500
- Portuguese later acquired the property and turned it into the European-style Leal Senado Building for municipal chamber and the front square for Portuguese settlers to hold festive celebrations.
- While she mainly stocks silk fabric with organza, most of the designs can also be acquired in a different and cheaper fabric.
- A great part to the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Through observational learning you have acquired a great number of behaviors that you could potentially produce but never do.