Arrive

[imp. & pp. ARRIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. ARRIVING.] [Fr. arriver, Pr. arribar, Sp. & Pg. arribar, It. arrivare, L. Lat. arrivare, arripare, adripare, to come to shore, from Lat. ad and ripa, the shore or sloping bank of a river.]

1Sense 1. (Lit.) To come to the shore, or bank; but, in present usage, to come in progress by water, or by traveling on land;—followed by at, but formerly sometimes by to.

[Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived at length, and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland.

Full soon among them he arrived. Milton.

2Sense 2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment; as, to arrive at a conclusion.

If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

3Sense 3. To happen or occur. [Obs.]

Happy, to whom this glorious death arrives. Waller.

v. t. [L. Lat. arrivare. See supra.] To reach. [Obs.] “Ere we could arrive the point proposed.” Shak. “Ere he arrive the happy isle.” Milton. “The calamity which lately arrived you.” Evelyn.

n. Arrival. [Obs. or poet.] “Little joy in his arrive.” Chapman.

How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.