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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Approach \Ap*proach"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Approached}; p. pr
& vb n. {Approaching}.] [OE. approchen aprochen OF
approcher LL appropriare fr L. ad + propiare to draw
near prope near.]
1. To come or go near in place or time; to draw nigh; to
advance nearer.
Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? --2
Sam. xi 20.
But exhorting one another; and so much the more as
ye see the day approaching. --Heb. x. 25.
2. To draw near in a figurative sense to make advances; to
approximate; as he approaches to the character of the
ablest statesman.
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