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Webster 1913 Edition

Acquirement

Ac-quire′ment

(-ment)
,
Noun.
The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.
“Rules for the acquirement of a taste.”
Addison.
His
acquirements
by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.
Hayward.
Syn. –
Acquisition
,
Acquirement
.
Acquirement is used in opposition to a natural gift or talent; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirements; genius is the gift or endowment of nature. It denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always observed.

Webster 1828 Edition

Acquirement

ACQUI'REMENT

,
Noun.
The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. It is used in opposition to natural gifts; as, eloquence, and skill in music and painting, are acquirement; genius, the gift of nature. it denotes especially personal attainments, in opposition to material or external things gained, Which are more usually called acquisitions; but this distinction is not always abserved.

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