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Verb
obtein (third-person singular simple present obteins, present participle obteining, simple past and past participle obteined)
- Obsolete form of obtain.
1550, Edward Hall, “[The Prosperous Reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth.] The .viii yere.”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, , London: Rychard Grafton, , →OCLC, folio xii, verso:[…] the Welſhemen gat firſte the Weſt hill, hopyng to haue recouered the Eaſt hyl: whiche if thei had obteined, the victory had been theirs, as their vnwyſe Propheſiers promiſed thẽ before.
1570, “Vppon Whitson Monday”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Postil or orderly disposing of certeine Epistles vsually red in the Church of God, vppon the Sundayes and Holydayes throughout the whole yeere, London: Henrie Bynneman. for Lucas Harrison and George Bishop, translation of original by Dauid Chytræus, page 227:The ſtate of Peters firſt Sermon which he made vpon Whitſon Sunday, is a doctrine concerning the holy ghoſt, ⁊ of the maner how to obtein euerlaſting ſaluation.