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• ap-pro-pink'w[=a]t, v.i. to come near to.--ns. APPROPINQU[=A]'TION, APPROPIN'QUITY. [L. appropinqu[=a]re, to approach--ad, to, and propinquus, near (prope).]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson