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verb

Arrive v. t.

To bring to shore. (Obs.) "And made the sea-trod ship arrive them."

To reach; to come to. (Archaic) "Ere he arrive the happy isle." "Ere we could arrive the point proposed." "Arrive at last the blessed goal."

Arrive v. i. (past & past part. arrived; pres. part. arriving)

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 at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." "(AEneas) sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived... and landed in the country of Laurentum." "There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich."

To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.

To arrive at, or attain to. "When he arrived at manhood." "We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts." "If at great things thou wouldst arrive."

To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.

To happen or occur. (Archaic) "Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives."

noun

Arrive n. Arrival. (Obs.) "How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!"

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arrive" Quotes from Famous Books

... the offspring of that dear old mother is a bastard, then she is nothing more nor less than a common whore, and you cannot arrive at any other rational conclusion. This is only reasoning from intelligent deductions; therefore, whenever Catholicism calls the children of Protestant parents bastards simply because these parents were not united ...

— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg

... were delays, as in his oppressed and dazed state he had mistaken the trains, for he did not arrive at home till nine o'clock instead of seven, and then he looked so ill as he stumbled into the hall, dazzled by the lights, that Mary looked at ...

— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge

... were unwilling that Hans should be seen. Mildrid felt at table that her mother looked at her whenever Hans smiled. He had one of those serious faces that grow very pleasant when they smile. One or two such things Mildrid added together in her mind, and brought them to the sum she wanted to arrive at. Only she did not feel herself so sure, but that the strain in the room was too great for her, and she was glad enough to escape from it by going after ...

— The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson

... have you spend the months of July and August as my guest at Elmhurst. I am in miserable health, and wish to become better acquainted with you before I die. A check for necessary expenses is enclosed and I shall expect you to arrive promptly on the ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne

... the night the marquis told me that we would start in the afternoon, and that he should arrive an hour before us. He assured his wife that he was quite well, and that he hoped to convince her that I had made him ten years younger. Leonilda embraced him tenderly, begging him to be ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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