Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. t.

1. To bring to shore. [Obs.]

And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. --Chapman.

2. To reach; to come to. [Archaic]

Ere he arrive the happy isle. --Milton.

Ere we could arrive the point proposed. --Shak.

Arrive at last the blessed goal. --Tennyson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Arrive \Ar*rive"\, n. Arrival. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! --Drayton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)