appropinquate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin appropinquare (“to approach”), present active infinitive of appropinquō, from ad- ("towards") + propinquō (“draw near”), verbalization of propinquus (“near”); compare prope ("near").
Verb
editappropinquate (third-person singular simple present appropinquates, present participle appropinquating, simple past and past participle appropinquated)
- (rare, literary, transitive, intransitive) To approach; to near.
- 1995. Ed. John Cunningham Wood, Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, page 67
- The factor invoked by Kalecki to rationalize the phenomenon, however, appropinquates Sraffa's observations on capital markets.
- 1873. John Taylor, Published by the Spencer Society; Works of John Taylor The Water Poet not Included in the Folio Volume of 1630: Second Collection, page 22
- Then thirdly, he [the devil] calumniouſly appropinquated to the Round-heads, but they alſo were buſied about Cheap-ſide Croſſe, ſo that he conſequently ennumerated all into his own Catalogue
- 1995. Ed. John Cunningham Wood, Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, page 67
Usage notes
editOften used as an example of an overliterary word, as in Prolocutor's speech in Robert Landis's Liberty's Triumph (VIII.381) or John Maclaurin's poem On Johnson's Dictionary (l. 47). Older uses are usually intransitive, while more modern ones are either transitive or intransitive.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editappropinquate
- inflection of appropinquarsi:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editappropinquate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editappropinquāte