Meanings
present singular third person appropinquates · participle present appropinquating · participle past appropinquated · past appropinquated
- ambitransitiveliteraryrareTo approach; to near.
The factor invoked by Kalecki to rationalize the phenomenon, however, appropinquates Sraffa's observations on capital markets.
1995. Ed. John Cunningham Wood, Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, page 671 more example
Then thirdly, he [the devil] calumniouſly appropinquated to the Round-heads, but they alſo were buſied about Cheap-ſide Croſſe, ſo that he conſequently ennumerated all into his own Catalogue
1873. John Taylor, Published by the Spencer Society; Works of John Taylor The Water Poet not Included in the Folio Volume of 1630: Second Collection, page 22
Origin
- Latinappropinquāre“to approach”
- Englishappropinquate
From Latin appropinquāre (“to approach”), from ad- ("towards") + propinquō (“draw near”), verbalization of propinquus (“near”); compare prope ("near").
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