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Thus, a man obtains an employment; he
obtains an answer to a letter, etc. To acquire is more
limited and specific. We acquire what comes to us gradually in
the regular exercise of our abilities, while we obtain what
comes in any way, provided we desire it. Thus, we acquire
knowledge, property, honor, reputation, etc. What we acquire
becomes, to a great extent, permanently our own; as, to
acquire a language; to acquire habits of industry,
etc.

Ob*tain", v. i. 1.
To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized
or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to
prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in
summer.

Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify
temperance in drinking.

Jer. Taylor.

The Theodosian code, several hundred years after
Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of
Europe.

Baker.

2. To prevail; to succeed. [R.]
Evelyn.

So run that ye may obtain.

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