acquiry

acquire +‎ -y

acquiry (plural acquiries)

1. (obsolete): acquirement

   ca.1670,No art requireth more hard study and pain toward the acquiry of it than contentment. Isaac Barrow, Sermons, III, 62.

• acquiry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “acquiry”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.