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OP "It was a toy Court that obtained there".
A sentence from a book I'm reading.
I've never before seen the intransitive form of the verb "obtain" used.
Is it rare? Or archaic?
Is this an exception, a word that means at the same time to "aquire" and to "hold"? (here in the meaning of hold/held))
A verb that seems to have an active as well as a static meaning? Or should it in the meaning of to hold also be seen as active?
Are there more like this one?
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