obtein

present singular third person obteins · participle present obteining · participle past obteined · past obteined

1. obsoleteObsolete form of obtain.

   […]With a great ſumme obteined I this freedome.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:28, column 1

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   […] the Welſhemen gat firſte the Weſt hill, hopyng to haue recouered the Eaſt hyl: whiche if thei had obteined, the victory had been theirs, as their vnwyſe Propheſiers promiſed thẽ before.

   a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “[The Prosperous Reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth.] The .viii yere.”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC

   The ſtate of Peters firſt Sermon which he made vpon Whitſon Sunday, is a doctrine concerning the holy ghoſt, ⁊ of the maner how to obtein euerlaſting ſaluation.

   1570, “Vppon Whitson Monday”, in Arthur Golding, transl., A Postil or orderly disposing of certeine Epistles vsually red in the Church of God, vppon the Sundayes and Holydayes throughout the whole yeere, London: […] Henrie Bynneman. for Lucas Harrison and George Bishop, translation of original by Dauid Chytræus, page 227