Arrive
Arrive ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
[Old English ariven to arrive, land, Old French ariver, French arriver, from Late Latin arripare, adripare, to come to shore; Latin ad + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Compare Riparian.]
1.
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.
[Aneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived... and landed in the country of Laurentum.
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich.
2.
To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.
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.
Collocations (1)
To arrive at , or attain to.
3.
To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
4.
To happen or occur. [Archaic]
Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
Arrive , transitive verb
1.
To bring to shore. [Obsolete]
And made the sea-trod ship arrive them.
2.
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 , noun
Arrival. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!