Ar*rive" , n. Arrival. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!
Drayton.
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.
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.
[Æneas] 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.
Hear it pronounced