In a manner showing eagerness to acquire or possess things; with an acquisitive quality.
From acquisitive plus -ly suffix to form an adverb; traces back through acquisition to Latin acquirere.
When someone eyes something 'acquisitively,' their whole body language changes—there's a hunger in it. The word captures the *feeling* of wanting to own something.
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