Crossword-Solution: ACQUISITIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Acquisitive | a. | Acquired. |
| Acquisitive | a. | Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ACQUISITIVE (5)
Cyprian alludes to lending on mortgages and to compound interest.] [Footnote 55: "Inquiries concerning Property among the Romans."] [Footnote 56: "Its acquisitive nature works rapidly in the sleep of the law.
She had passed the meridian of her life as a charmer of men, her health was giving way, she was greedy, ambitious, acquisitive.
Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food.
There are also other ambitions not so loud, but deeply rooted in the envious acquisitive temperament of the last corner amongst the great Powers of the Continent, whose feet are not exactly in the ocean--not yet--and whose head is very high up--in Pomerania, the breeding place of such precious Grenadiers that Prince Bismarck (whom it is a pleasure to quote) would not have given the bones of one of them for the settlement of the old Eastern Question.
From his late schooldays onward he had been possessed by an acute and obstinate form of kleptomania; he had the acquisitive instinct of the collector without any of the collector’s discrimination.
Quotes with ACQUISITIVE (3)
One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive — till then power of God will remain.
When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.” I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant what they said. I have since discovered that they meant exactly the opposite. They meant that sex was to be treated as no other impulse in our nature has ever been treated by civilized people. All the others, we admit, have to be bridled. Absolute obedience to your instinct for self-p…
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not systems. Can you and our vapouring friends of the Literary Chamber of Rennes, or any other learned society of France, devise a system of government that has never yet been tried? Surely not. And can we say of any system tried that it proved other than failure in the end? My dear Philippe, the future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Ad actu ad posse valet consecutio.…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).