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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arrive \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. [bd]Arrived in Padua.[b8]
            --Shak.
  
                     [[92]neas] 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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