Examples
“Mivers professed -- not to belong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate.”
“The conversation arrested its discursive nature, to settle upon a political chief, the highest in fame and station of that party to which Mivers professed -- not to belong, he belonged to himself alone, but to appropinquate.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘appropinquate’.
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
floccinaucinihili..., quomodocunquize, curmudgeon, illaqueate, ipsissimosity, heterochthonous, hakenkreuz, forisfamiliate, appropinquate, apodyopsis, baryphony, cachinnate and 146 more...
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litany of lexical likes
words I find interesting or that stuck in my head or that I want to revisit at some point
loblolly, animadvert, misoneism, outrance, chokedamp, appropinquate, noesis, cataphor, flabbergastment, godforsaken, mendacity, sussurus and 105 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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seanahan Yes, it does. Does the part meaning "neighboring" become cuidad meaning city (via neighborhood)? Sep 22, 2007
reesetee Hmm. Here's a more thorough etymology from OED:
f. L. appropinquat- ppl. stem of appropinquare to draw nigh to, f. ap- = ad- to + propinquare, f. propinqu-us neighbouring, f. prope nigh, near.
Here's more: looks as though its origins are similar to that of propinquity, which comes from the Spanish propincuidad: "late 14th cent. as propinquidat; also as propincuidat (early 15th cent.), from Italian propinquità (c1200)."
So somewhere in there, the "-cuidat" appears to have become "-quidat." I'm guessing the -ate suffix on appropinquate is more modern, but the "qu" was kept.
That help? Sep 22, 2007
seanahan Right, it says "ad + prope", but doesn't explain where the quate comes from. Sep 22, 2007
reesetee Says Webster's Revised: "L. appropinquatus, p. p. of appropinquare; ad + prope near." Sep 21, 2007
seanahan Where does the "quate" come from? Sep 21, 2007
reesetee Approach. Sep 20, 2007