GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Approach, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Approached; p. pr. & vb. n. Approaching.] [OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw near, prope near.]
   To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
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   Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city?
   2 Sam. xi. 20.
   
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   But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
   Heb. x. 25.
   
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   To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
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   Approaching, n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.
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