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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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"Arrive" Quotes from Famous Books

... my father owned much worldly wealth in money and effect and vaiselle and rarities and so forth, besides of landed estates and of fiefs and mortmains a store galore. And every year when the ships of Al-Hind would arrive bringing Indian goods and coffee from Al-Yaman the folk brought thereof one-fourth of the whole and he three-fourths paying in ready cash and hard money.[FN608] So his word was heard and his works were preferred amongst the Traders and the Grandees and the Rulers. Also he had control[FN609] ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... considerably increased, the lower clouds are seen to spread till they unite in all points and form one uniform sheet. The rain then commences, and the lower clouds arriving from the windward, move under this sheet and are successively lost in it. When the latter cease to arrive, or when the sheet breaks, letting through the sun-beams, every one's experience teaches him to expect that the rain will abate ...

— The Rain Cloud - or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain • Anonymous

... over the triumph of their theory in the long-distance test of walking endurance, seventy miles, in Germany, this week. The twenty-two starters included eight vegetarians. The distance had to be covered within eighteen hours. The first six to arrive were vegetarians, the first finishing in 14 1/4 hours, the second in 14 1/2, the third in 15 1/2, the fourth in 16, the fifth in 16 1/2, and the sixth in 17 1/2. The last two vegetarians missed their way and ...

— The Golden Age Cook Book • Henrietta Latham Dwight

... the Poles. It was, thus Poniatowski declares in his report to the King, thanks "to the good and circumspect dispositions of General Kosciuszko that our retreat was continued in unbroken order." The subsequent safe passage of the army over the river is again ascribed to Kosciuszko. And so we arrive at the famous day of Dubienka, fought on the banks of the Bug between the marshes of Polesie and Galicia, which covered Kosciuszko's name with glory, and which by tragic paradox saw the end of that stage of his ...

— Kosciuszko - A Biography • Monica Mary Gardner

... added, turning to Madame Tube, "To-morrow a load of wood will arrive for you—I have mentioned your sad story to some of our town's people, and have already received much help, which I will lay out to the best advantage for your most pressing wants. And now I am sure Madame Tube has need of repose, so we will wish ...

— The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and - Crystal Palace • Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

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