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English
Etymology
From acquire + -y.
Noun
acquiry (plural acquiries)
- (obsolete): acquirement
- ca.1670,No art requireth more hard study and pain toward the acquiry of it than contentment. Isaac Barrow, Sermons, III, 62.
References
- “acquiry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “acquiry”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.