Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Achieve

Achieve ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Old English acheven, Old French achever, achiever, French achever, to finish; à (Latin ad) + Old French chief, French chef, end, head, from Latin caput head. See Chief.]

1.
To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it. — I. Taylor
2.
To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness. — Shakespeare
Thou hast achieved our liberty. — Milton
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved. — Prior
He hath achieved a maid That paragons description. — Shakespeare

[[Obs]., with a material thing as the aim.]

3.
To finish; to kill. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare