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Show so 50 Content with food which nature freely bred keep one of my letters, and compare it with m On wildings and on ftrawberries they fed Cornels and bramble-berrics gave the reft And falling acorns furnifh'd out-a feaft Dryden's Owvid He that is nourithed by the acorns he picked u b 4 under an oak, or the apples he gathered from th trees in the wood, has certainly appropriated the L()L.‘kg to himfelf A'CorNED., adj. [from acorn.] Stored wit Shakefpeare ‘USTICKS. 7. /. [ Axssixe, Of éxéw, Gr 1 2 7 1 "The do&rine or theory of founds Medicines to help the hearing. Quincy ACQUA'INT. w. a. [accointer, Fr. To make familiar with ; applied eithe to perfons or things. It has avith befor the object feek, what exercifes or difcipline the place yieldeth We that acguaint ourfelves with ev'ry zone And pafs the tropicks, and behold each pole Bacon This, my lord, has juftly acquired you as man friends, as there are perfons who have the honou to be known to you; mere acqguaintance you hav When we come home, are to ourfelves unknown And unacquainted fill with our own foul Dawies There with thee, new welcome faint none Like fortunes may her foul acguaint Milton Before a man can fpeak on any fubjeét, it i negeflary to be acquainted wvith it Acquain yourfelve Locke on Education <virh things ancient an or three men of the town are got among them, an have brought words and phrafes, which were neve before in thofe parts Tatler AcQUAINTANCE. #. /. [accointance, Fr. 1. The ftate of being acquainted with ‘ familiarity, knowledge It is applie as well to perfons as things, with th particle awizh Nor was his acquaintance lefs avith the famou pocts of his age, than zvith the noblemen and ladjes ‘Dryden Our admiration of a famous man leffens upo eur nearer acguaintance with him; and we feldo hear of a celebrated perfon, without a catalogu g Atterbury fimply without South who wer how oblioffices h I forbea ] of his neighbourhood and acquaintance ging his carriage was to them, what kin did, and was always ready to do them partiailarly to [ay._ Atterbury 3. A {light or 1initial knowledge, fhort o friendfhip, as applied to perfons I hope I am pretty near fecing you, and therefor I woul cultivate an acquaintance 5 becaufe i Zo ACQUIE'SCE. w. n. [acquicfeer, Fr acquigfcere, Lat.] To reft in, or remai fatisfied with, without oppofition or dif content It has 7z before the obje& Others will, upon account of the receivednef of the propofed opinion, think it rather worthy t count, will needs take up and acguicfce in an air ungrounded perfuafion, that they will thofe thing This keeps the underftanding longin converfe wit an obje€t, and long converfe brings acquaintance Woedward can pafs before God for a man's willing of fuc things; and, confequently, if ‘men, upon this ac Shakefpeare adj. [from acquaint.] Fa ing, nor unaétive complacency inj nor, laftly, natural inclination to things virtuous and good Would we be admitted into an acquaintance wit God, let us ftudy to refemble him We muft b partakers of a divine nature, in order to partake o In what manner he lived with thof Boyle againft Bentley be examined than acguicfced in Boyle Neither a bare approbation of, nor a mere wifh of fome notorious weaknefles and infirmities Addifon We fee he is athamed of his neareft acquaintances New acquefls are more burden than firength Bacon Mud, repofed near the oftea of rivers, make continual additions to the land, thereby excludin the fea, and preferving thefe fhells as trophies an figns of its new acguefts and encroachments My father of this bufinefs Shakefpeare's Tawelfth Night A friend in the country acquaints me, that tw Brave foldier, pardon me That any accent breaking from my tongue Should *fcape the true acquaintance of mine ear Dryden AcQur'st. . [. [acquef?, Fr. from acquerir written by fome acquiff, with a view t the word acquire, or acquifita.] Attach ment, acquifition ; the thing gained But for fome other reafons, my grave Sir Which is not fit you know, I not acquain 2. Familiar knowledge prepofition after inviolably yours Now call we our high court of parliament That war or peace, or both at once may b As things acguainted and familiar to us Shakefp #"7%th is more in ufe befor this high privilege and alliance and they who have converfed with you, are for eve miliar, well known ; not new national; things of your own and foreign countries and, above all, be well acquainted awith God an yourfelves; learn animal nature, and the working of your own fpirits Watts's Logick the obje than of you have drawn them all into a nearer line AcQua'INTED modern, natural, civil, and religious, domeftican 2. Toinform 'The perfon with whom we are acquainted; him of whom we have fom knowledge, without the intimacy o friendfhip tances But fhe, all vow'd unto the red-crofs knight His wand'ring peril clofely did lament Ne in this new acguaintance could delight But her dear heart with anguifh did torment Fairy Queen That young men travel under fome tutor, allow well, fo that he be fuch a one that may b able to tell them, what acguaintances they are t hear. face; for my face and letters are counterparts o my heart Saift to Pope A long noviciate of acquaintance fhould preced the vows of friendfhip Bolingbroke In this fenfe, the plural is, in fom authors, acquaintance, in others acquain acorns Like a full acorn'd boar e you do aot know me when we mect, you nesd oply which really they not will, they fall thereby into grofs and fatal delufion South He hath employed his tranfcendent wifdom an power, that by thefe he might make way for hi benignity, as the end wherein they ultimately acquicfce Grew AcQUIE'SCENCE. 7. /. [from acquiefce. 1. A filent appearance of content, diftinguifhed onone fide from avowed confent on the other from oppofition Neither from any of the nobility, nor of th clergy, who were thought moft averfe from it, ther appeared any fign of contradiction to that; but a entire acguicfcence in all the bifhops thought fit t do Clarendon ‘2. Satisfa&tion reft content Many indeed have given over their purfuits afte fame,either from difappointment, or fromexperienc of the little pleafure which attends it, or the bette informations or natural coldnefs of old age; bu feldo fro a full fatisfation and acquigfi'ence i their prefent enjoyments of it Addifon 3. Submiffion, confidence The greatelt part of the world take up their per fuafions concerning good and evil, by an implici faith, and a full acquicfcence in the word of thofe who fhall reprefent things to them under thefe characters South AcQu1'RABLE. adj. [from acquire.] Tha which may be acquired or obtained attainable Thofe rational inftinks, the connate principle engraven in the human foul, though they are truth acquirable and deducible' by rational confequenc and argumentation, yet feem to be infcribed in th very crafis and texture of the foul, antecedent t any acquifition by induftry or the exercife of th difcurfive faculty in man Hale's Origin of Mankind If the powers of cogitation and volition, an fenfation, are neither inherent in matter as fuch nor acquirable to matter by any motion or modification of it; it neceffarily follows, that they proceed from fome cogitative fubftance, fome incorporeal inhabitant within us, which we call fpiri and foul Bentley Yo ACQUERE quiro [acquerir Fr. ac Lat. 1. To gain by one's own labour or power to obtain what is not received from na ture or tran{mitted by inheritance Better to leave undone Acgquire too hig away 2, T'o come to a fame than by our dee whil he w ferve, ' Shekelp. Antony and Clegpatra to attain Motion cannot be perceived without the perception of its terms, viz. the parts of fpace which'i immediately left, and thofe which it next acquires Glanville's Scepfis AcQUI'RED. particip. adj. [from acquire. Gained by one's felf, in oppofition t thofe things which are beftowed by nature We are feldom at eafe, and free enough fro the folicitation of our natural or adopted defires but a conftant fucceffion of uneafinefles, out o that ftock, which natural wants, or acguired habits have heaped up, take the will in their turns .Locke AcQur'RER. 7 /. [from "acquire.] Th perfon that acquires ; a gainer AcQU1'REMENT. #. /. [from acquire.] Tha whic is acquired gain his acquirements by induftry were ex ceedingly both enriched and enlarge excellent endowments of nature by man attainment The word may be properly ufed in oppofition to the gifts of nature Thel Hayward on Edward V1 By a content and acquieicence in every fpecie of truth, we embrace the thadow thereof; or fo much as may palliate its ju®t and fubftantial acquiremnents Brown's FPulgar Errours It is very difficult to Jay down rules for the ai quirement of a tafte The faculty muft, in fom degree, be born with us Addifon Acquisi'tioN . /. [acquifitio Lat. 1. The act of acquiring or gaining Each man has but a limited right to the goo things of the world ; and the natural allowed way by which he is to compafs the pofieflion of thef things them is by his own induftriou acguifition o South z. The thing gained ; acquirement Great Sir all acguifitio Of glory as of empire, here I lay befor Your royal feet Denbam's Sophy A ftate can never arrive to its period in a mor deplorable crifis, than when fome prince lies hovering like a vulture to difmember its dying carcafe by which means it becomes only an acguifition tofome mighty moparchy, without hopes of a refur rection Szvift AcQUIsITIVE, |
