arrivance

[Eng. arriv (e); -ance.] 1. The same as ARRIVAL; meaning the act of arriving, or the state of being made to arrive. 2. People arriving; company coming. "For every minute is expectancy Of more arrivance." Shakesp.: Othello, ii. 1. IMG:content-0764.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To reach by water. "At length a ship arriving brought The good so long desired." Cowper: A Tale, June, 1793. "And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, And when he went forth to land,..."-Luke viii. 26, 26 27. 2. To reach by land journey. "When we were arrived upon the verge of his estate, we stopped at a little inn, to rest ourselves and our horses. -Sidney . ". there was no outbreak till the regiment ar rived at Ipswich"-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., chap. xi. II. Figuratively : 1. Of persons: To reach any aim or other object towards which one has for some time been moving. (Generally followed by at , rarely by to .) "It is the highest wisdom by despising the world to arrive at heaven." - Taylor. the conclusions at which I arrived."-Darwin: Descent of Man, vol. 1, pt. i., chap. i. (1871), p. 3. 2. Of things: (a) To reach, to attain to. "If some things are too luxuriant, it is owing to the richne of the soil; and if others are not arrired to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and opprest by those of a stronger nature." Pope : Preface to Homer's Iliad. (b) To come, to happen, to occur, to take place. IMG:content-0765.png:[blocks in formation] 1. An old weight = twenty-five English pounds. (Fernandez: Eng. & Sp . Dict ., 1811.) 2. An old measure, as yet only partially superseded by the French metric system of weights and measures introduced into Spain on January 1, 1859. It is of two capacities: (1) The arroba for wine contains 3 imperial gallons. (2) The arroba for oil contains 25. (Statesman's Year - Book , 1875.) B. In Portugal : An old Portuguese weight of about thirty-two pounds. (Simmonds.) It is toc completely disused to be mentioned in the Statesman's Year- Book .