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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.

any 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.

Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

ion accounted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that c…

great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

To broach; to begin. And right anon his tale he hath attamed. Chaucer.

To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus cæruleus); -- so called from its color.

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.