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Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

sure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.

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.

f popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

To near; to approach. [Archaic]