Ar*rive" (#), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Arrived (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Arriving.] [OE. ariven to arrive, land, OF. ariver, F. arriver, fr. LL. arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. 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."
Shak.
[Aeneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.
Holland.
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich.
Macaulay.
2.
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.
Rogers.
We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts.
McCosh.
If at great things thou wouldst arrive.
Milton.
3.
To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
4.
To happen or occur.
[Archaic]
Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
Waller.
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Ar*rive", v. t.
1.
To bring to shore.
[Obs.]
And made the sea-trod ship arrive them.
Chapman.
2.
To reach; to come to.
[Archaic]
Ere he arrive the happy isle.
Milton.
Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
Shak.
Arrive at last the blessed goal.
Tennyson.
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Ar*rive", n.
Arrival.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!
Drayton.
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