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Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.

To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.

Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

To near; to approach. [Archaic]

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

To approach. [Archaic] Ld. Lytton.

A drawing nigh; approach. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

The act of approximating; a drawing, advancing or being near; approach; also, the result of approximating. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

Approaching; approximate. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ly, adv. -- Ap*prox"i*ma*tive*ness, n.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. Swift.

An approach. [Obs.] The house has a corner arrival. H. Walpole.