Chrestomathy: alternatives and connections

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a rig…

The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language"

Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.

The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

An obtaining or acquiring.

A mania for acquiring books.

A gentleman who carries arms in a regiment, as a volunteer, with a view of acquiring military skill and obtaining a commission.

The processes used for thinking, remembering and understanding.

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meani…

A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 1…

A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.

Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs…

A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a…

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.