attain

To gain (an object or desired result).

To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.

Lord Ross. Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord. / Lord Willoughby. And far surmounts our labour to attain it.

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

[…] my bones would rest, / That have but labour’d to attain this hour.

Canaan he now attains,

To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.

if by any means they might attain to Phenice

To get at the knowledge of.

[…] Master Camden, sometimes acknowledgeth, sometimes denieth him for an English Earle. Not that I accuse him as inconstant to himself, but suspect my self not well attaining his meaning therein.

To reach in excellence or degree.

Yet notwithstanding as Those that first bring Honour into their Family, are commonly more worthy, then most that succeed: So the first President (if it be good) is seldome attained by Imitation.