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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gained by one's own efforts.
- adjective Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.
- adjective Resulting from exposure to something, such as an antigen or antibiotic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) gotten through environmental forces. Contrasted with
inherited .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
acquire . - adjective medicine Developed postfetally; not
congenital .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective gotten through environmental forces
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Examples
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One surprising source of work and audience for Bute was in providing short "B-movies" for film houses well before the term acquired its schlocky, perjorative connotations.
Archive 2007-01-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2007
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One surprising source of work and audience for Bute was in providing short "B-movies" for film houses well before the term acquired its schlocky, perjorative connotations.
Mary Ellen Bute's "Dada" Jeremiah McNichols 2007
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GUPTA: 1982, the term acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS is first used and within a year, researchers had determined it was the HIV virus that was destroying the patient's immune system and killing them.
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The concern here is primarily with the meaning the term acquired in the course of the eighteenth century as denoting the creative powers and outstanding original - ity of uncommonly endowed, exalted individuals.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968
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In Spanish sixteenth - and seventeenth - century authors the term acquired an ironic twist, as in the expression hacerse de los godos (“to claim nobil - ity, to put on airs”).
CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968
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Graham Summer, the term acquired a harsher and altogether less idealistic significance.
TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM STEVEN LUKES 1968
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Page the Ninth and Eleventh Clauses thereof in so far as the same are applicable to the question of the nature and character of the title acquired by The
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AUBRION (Comte d '), the title acquired by Charles Grandet after his marriage to the daughter of the Marquis d'Aubrion.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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But the title acquired by Dandolo runs thus in the chronicle of his namesake, the Doge Andrew Dandolo: "Ducali titulo addidit, 'Quartæ partis, & dimidiæ totius Imperii Romaniæ; Dominator.'"
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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It is a title acquired fortuitously, being given to one who during an attack happened _to lance unknowingly a dead man in the house of the enemy_.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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