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   Arrive , 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.]
   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.”
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   [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.
   Holland.
   
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   There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich.
   Macaulay.
   
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   To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.
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   To arrive at, or attain to.
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   When he arrived at manhood.
   Rogers.
   
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   We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts.
   McCosh.
   
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   If at great things thou wouldst arrive.
   Milton.
   
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   To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
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   To happen or occur. [Archaic]
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   Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
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   Arrive, v. t.
   To bring to shore. [Obs.]
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   And made the sea-trod ship arrive them.
   Chapman.
   
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   To reach; to come to. [Archaic]
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   Ere he arrive the happy isle.
   Milton.
   
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   Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
   Shak.
   
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   Arrive at last the blessed goal.
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   Arrive, n. Arrival. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!
   Drayton.
   
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