Hypertext Webster Gateway: "arrived"

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. ``Arrived in Padua.'' --Shak.

[[AE]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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