ETYMOLOGY
from Latin appropinquāre (to approach),
from ad (to), and propinquus, from prope (near)
EXAMPLE
“…The knotted bloud within my hose,
That from my wounded body flows,
With mortal Crisis doth portend
My dayes to appropinque an end.
I am for action now unfit,
Either of fortitude or wit…”
From: Hudibras, Written in the Time of the Late Wars
By Samuel Butler, 1663
Canto III. The Argument
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