appropinquare

appropinquare [CL] , to draw near (in space or time), approach (absol. or w. dat.). b (w. acc.). c (fig.) to approximate, resemble. ~ante jam stili termino Aldh. PR 142 p. 201; c601 adpropinquante ‥ mundi termino (Lit. Papae) Bede HE I 32; ubi adpropinquare sibi citharam cernebat, surgebat a media caena Ib. IV 24; plus omnibus aliis approximans et ~ans Gir. Spec. II 7; a1350 [frater] pani et cervisie non †~at [? l. ~et] tangendo vel aliquo modo tractando (Artic. Hosp. S. Juliani) G. S. Alb. II app. 506.  b per ipsam [justitiam homo] domesticat terribile et ~at remotum Bacon V 123; 1263 ita quod cursus ‥ aque nullam putredinem ~et Cart. Harrold p. 121; ~avit eundem Rogerum et petiit ab eo ‥ State Tri. Ed. I 52; s1317 ~ante ‥ rege castrum Flor. Hist. III 181.  c 1432 quia artes scribendi ‥ loquendique Gallicanum idioma ‥ magis grammatice et rhetorice quam aliis scienciis ‥ ~ant StatOx 240.