appropinquateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

appropinquate (三人称単数 現在形 appropinquates, 現在分詞 appropinquating, 過去形および過去分詞形 appropinquated)

1. (まれに, literary, transitive, intransitive) To approach; to near.
   • 1995. Ed. John Cunningham Wood, Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, page 67

     The factor invoked by Kalecki to rationalize the phenomenon, however, appropinquates Sraffa's observations on capital markets.

   • 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

     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

使用する際の注意点

Often used as an example of an overliterary word, as in Prolocutor's speech in Robert Landis's Liberty's Triumph (VIII.381) or John Maclaurin's poem On Johnson's Dictionary (l. 47). Older uses are usually intransitive, while more modern ones are either transitive or intransitive.