4. An approach. [Obs.]

The house has a corner arrival.

H. Walpole.

Ar*riv"ance (&?;), n. Arrival. [Obs.] Shak.

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.

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