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To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.

One who approaches.

her, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

Impossible to be approached.

Approach. [Archaic] Holland.

Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv.

To approach again or anew.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

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.