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<p><b>4.</b> <def>An approach.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The house has a corner <b>arrival</b>. <i>H. Walpole.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Ar*riv"ance</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Arrival.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

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<hw>Ar*rive"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Arrived</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Arriving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>ariven</ets> to arrive, land, OF. <ets>ariver</ets>, F. <ets>arriver</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>arripare</ets>, <ets>adripare</ets>, to come to shore; L. <ets>ad + ripa</ets> the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. <er>Riparian</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by <i>at</i> (formerly sometimes by <i>to</i>), also by <i>in</i> and <i>from</i>.</def> "<i>Arrived</i> in Padua."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>[\'92neas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, <b>arrived</b> . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There was no outbreak till the regiment <b>arrived</b> at Ipswich. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.</def>

<cs><col>To arrive at</col>, <cd>or attain to.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>When he <b>arrived at</b> manhood. <i>Rogers.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We <b>arrive at</b> knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. <i>McCosh.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>If <b>at</b> great things thou wouldst <b>arrive</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To come; said of time; <as>as, the time <ex>arrived</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To happen or occur.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Happy! to whom this glorious death <b>arrives</b>. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Ar*rive"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To bring to shore.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>And made the sea-trod ship <b>arrive</b> them. <i>Chapman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To reach; to come to.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>Ere he <b>arrive</b> the happy isle. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Ere we could <b>arrive</b> the point proposed. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Arrive</b> at last the blessed goal. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Ar*rive"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Arrival.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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