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  1.  Not acquired; unattained.

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1653.  Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xii. 154. The work of God is left imperfect, and our persons ungracious, and our ends unacquired.

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1656.  W. Montague, Accompl. Wom., Ep. Ded. So that this cannot enform your understanding in any new unacquired grace or vertue.

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  2.  Not obtained from without; innate.

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1793.  Holcroft, trans. Lavater’s Physiog., xxix. 136. Can we call this feeling, internal unacquired sensation?

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1870.  Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. 164. We recognize his truth to Nature by an innate and unacquired sympathy.

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