▪ I. arrive, v.
(əˈraɪv)
Forms: 3–7 arive, 3–6 aryve, (4 ariffe), 5–6 arryve, (6 arriff), 5 – arrive.
[a. OF. arive-r, cogn. with Pr. arivar, aribar, It. arrivare, Sp., Pg. arribar, OIt., late L. arribāre:—arrīpāre, adrīpāre, f. ad to + rīpa shore; = ad rīpam appellĕre; cf. mod.It. arripare in orig. sense. With the subseq. widening of sense (which took place before the word was adopted in Eng.), cf. the use of to land. In 14–15th c. occas. aphetized to rive; and inflected after strong vbs., with pa. tense arove (rove, arofe), pa. pple. ariven (aryven).]
I. Of reaching by water.
† 1. trans. To bring (a ship, its crew or passengers) to shore or into port; to land (a ship, etc.).
[The first two quotations may belong to 2.]
| 1205 Lay. 16063 Nu beoð of Brutaine beornes ariued..i þis lond at Tottenæs [1250 at Dertemuþ in Totenas]. c 1300 Beket 1854 Hou Seint Thomas the holi man at Sandwych aryved was. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 122 Þe wynde aryueþ þe sayles of vlixes..and hys wandryng shippes by þe see in to þe isle þere as Circe..dwelleþ. 1624 Chapman Homer's Hymn Apollo 684 And made the sea-trod ship arrive them near The grapeful Crissa. 1650 W. Brough Sacr. Princ. (1659) 486 Some points of wind..may as soon Overturn, as Arrive the ship. 1664 Floddan Field iii. 28 Had promis'd plight..His Fleet in merry ray to arive. |
2. a. intr. (through refl.) To come to shore or into port; to land. (Said of a ship, its crew, or passengers: till about 1550 the only prevalent sense.) Now merged in 5.
| 1297 R. Glouc. 371 Þat folc of Denemarch..myd þre hondered ssypuolmen..aryuede in þe Norþ contreye. 1375 Barbour Bruce iv. 559 We may thair ariffe in-to saufte. 1387 Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. VII. 87/1 Þe navy of Danes rove up at Sandwyche [Sandwicum appulit]. 1393 Gower Conf. III. 288 Till that he arriveth Sauf in the porte of Antioche. c 1450 Lonelich Grail xxxii. 57 Tweyn schepis to þat yl a-ryved there. 1470 Harding Chron. xlii, His nauye greate..In Thamis aroue. 1538 Starkey England 57 The schype arryvyth at the haven purposyd. 1611 Bible Luke viii. 26 They arriued at the countrey of the Gadarenes. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 57 The fleet..with the troops and stores, were arrived at Jamaica. 1874 Marine Insur. Policy, Until the said Ship..shall be arrived at ―. |
b. Of things: To be brought by ship. sold to arrive: (a cargo) sold for delivery on arrival in port.
| 1755 N. Magens Insurances, The goods are arrived and brought a-shore safe. 1861 Du Chaillu's Equat. Afr. ii. 13 Shipments of slaves sold ‘to arrive,’ but which do not come to hand. |
3. trans. (by omission of prep.) To come to, land at, reach (a shore, port, etc.). arch. See 6.
| 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hipp. (1878) 96 Nowe we arriue the hauen. 1601 Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 110 Ere we could arriue the Point propos'd. 1630 Wadsworth Sp. Pilgr. i. 5 Through a Million of dangers we arriued the Spanish coasts. 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 409 Ere he arrive The happy Ile. |
II. Of reaching generally.
† 4. a. trans. To bring, to convey; to ‘land’ a person in any situation. Obs.
| 1489 Caxton Faytes of Armes ii. xxiii. 136 Habillementes for to conueie and arrive the thynges that ben nedefull. 1607 Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Plays 1873 II. 82 And belief must arrive him on huge riches. 1667 Waterhouse Fire Lond. 95 These remisnesses..arrive men at woe. |
b. refl. in sense of next.
| 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxii. 216 Tho toke they the mortimer as he arryued hym at the toures dore. |
5. a. intr. To come to the end of a journey, to a destination, or to some definite place; to come upon the scene, make one's appearance.
| c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame 1047 Both he and y As nygh the place arryved were As men may casten with a spere. a 1400 Sir Degrev. 59 The eorlle hadd i-revayd, And in hys ȝerd lyȝthus. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. iv. 6 When Artegall arriving happily Did stay awhile their greedy bickerment. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 422 A sauour, that may strike the dullest Nosthrill Where I arriue. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. ix, New labourers will arrive; new Bridges will be built. 1866 Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 22 Before Harold could actually arrive. |
b. Const. at, in, upon (into, to, obs.).
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. A. 447 Alle þat may ther-inne [in þe kyndom of god] aryue. c 1435 Torr. Portugal Fragm. 1 In a forest she is aryven. 1518 Sir A. Browne in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. xiv. 32 By foor your Grace cowd wel arriff at Amyas. 1539 Cromwell ibid. I App. civ. 272 Yesterday arrived to me hither Your Majesties servants. 1539 Tonstall Serm. Palme Sund. (1823) 14 Into what howse or place so euer ye shall arriue. a 1586 Sidney (J.) We arrived upon the verge of his estate. 1661 Barrow Serm. i. I. 2 He shall in good time arriue to his designed journey's end. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 39 There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Mod. Two policemen at length arrived upon the scene. |
c. Of things: To be brought or conveyed. (Now only of things material.)
| 1651 Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 155 The Law cannot arrive time enough to his assistance. 1667 Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy Wks. 1725 I. 46 Let the rest arrive to the Audience by narration. 1709 Tatler No. 5 ¶3 Letters..immediately after arrived from the court of Madrid. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. §11. 71 The ladder now arrived, and we crossed the crevasse. |
6. trans. (by omission of prep.) To come to, reach. arch.
| 1647 H. More Song of Soul iii. App. xxxiii, Humours did arrive His knobby head. 1647 R. Stapylton Juvenal 191 Till the crime Arrive the people, and the prince's eare. a 1823 Shelley Eurip. Cyclops 668 While I ask and hear Whence coming they arrive the ætnean hill. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. lxxxiv, Arrive at last the blessed goal. |
III. Of reaching a position, state, or time.
7. To come to a position or state of mind, or reach an object, as the result of continuous effort; to attain, gain, achieve, compass. a. intr. with (to obs.) at.
| 1393 Gower Conf. III. 202 Leoncius Was to thempire of Rome arrived. 1607 Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 512 Many so arriue at second Masters, Vpon their first Lords necke. 1642 Howell (title), Instructions for Forreine Travell. Shewing by what cours..one may..arrive to the practical knowledge of the Languages. 1671 Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (1878) 72 If he arrives at any employment of that nature. 1737 Waterland Eucharist 80 They affect to contemn, what they cannot arrive to. 1850 M{supc}Cosh Div. Govt. (1874) iii. i. 290 We arrive at a knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of the facts presented to the senses. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §22 The same conclusion is thus arrived at. |
† b. with inf. Obs.
| 1673 Dryden Marr. A-la-Mode i. i, You have learn'd the advantages of Play, and can arrive to live upon't. 1719 Swift To Yng. Clergyman Wks. 1755 II. ii. 2 If such gentlemen arrive to be great scholars. |
c. trans. Only poet. See 6.
| 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, cxlvii, And by what waies Hee may arrive his End. |
8. a. intr. To come to a certain stage of development, by natural growth, lapse of time, etc.; to reach, attain. Const. (to obs.) at.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iii. Cho. 21 Eyther past, or not arriu'd to pyth and puissance. 1634 Evelyn Diary (1827) I. 10 Being arriv'd to her 20 yeare of age. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 123 ¶4 They were each of them arrived at Years of Discretion. 1747 Gould Eng. Ants 49 When the Worms arrive to their Period of Transmutation. 1850 Lynch Theo. Trin. ix. 162 We and the world have arrived at our present, and shall arrive at our future. |
b. Of time and temporal states: To come, so as to be present.
| 1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. v. (1804) I. 20 At length the hour arrived. 1847 Bushnell Chr. Nurture ii. v. (1861) 318 As the knowledge of his nobler, unseen Fatherhood arrives. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 31 The time had arrived. |
9. a. To come about, come to pass, occur, happen, as an event. Obs. (exc. where it has somewhat of the temporal sense of 8, as ‘come about in course of time.’)
| 1633 H. Cogan Pinto's Voy. lxxv. 305, I will speak no further of him, but will deliver that which arrived in other Countries. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. i. xii. 52 Causes of all things that have arrived hitherto, or shall arrive hereafter. 1713 Addison Cato iii. iv. 6 That whate'er arrive, My friends and fellow-soldiers may be safe. 1817 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. v. 501 Under whose management such misfortunes had arrived. 1862 Trench Mirac. xvii. 278 This was precisely what they had long hoped would arrive. |
† b. Const. to, rarely at. Obs.
| a 1677 Barrow Serm. I. i. (R.) No considerable damage can arrive to us. 1713 Guardian No. 1 ¶5 All sorrows which can arrive at me. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones xv. vi. (1840) 221/2 Any such event may arrive to a woman. |
† c. trans. To happen to, befall. Obs.
| 1655 Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 65 The calamity which lately arrived you. 1659 Milton Civ. Power Wks. 1847. 418/2 Let him also forbear force..lest a worse woe arrive him. |
10. Of a person: to be successful, establish one's position or reputation. [After F. arriver.]
| 1889 E. C. Dowson Let. 3 Feb. (1967) 32 Imagine a man of low origin, extremely strong, cynical & determined to ‘arrive’. 1893 F. Adams New Egypt 197 He is a younger man, and has, in the large sense of the word, only arrived comparatively recently. 1914 [see arriviste]. 1936 English Studies XVIII. 53 The book was Herrick's greatest success... With Together Herrick arrived. |
▪ II. † aˈrrive, n. Obs.
[f. prec. vb. (In the early instance prob. an error for armé, which is the prevalent reading.)]
Landing; arrival.
| c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 60 (Harl. MS.) At manye a nobil ariue [Cambr. MS. aryue, others arme, -ee, -eye] hadde he be. 1538 Starkey England 57 The haven or place of hys arryve. 1615 Chapman Odyss. ii. 379 His wife should little joy in his arrive. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 275 At his arrive at Babylon, he would enquire of the antiquity of their Records. |