appropinquate

1. (rare, literary, ambitransitive) To approach; to near.Examples: "The factor invoked by Kalecki to rationalize the phenomenon, however, appropinquates Sraffa's observations on capital markets."; "Then thirdly, he [the devil] calumniouſly appropinquated to the Round-heads, but they alſo were buſied about Cheap-ſide Croſſe, ſo that he conſequently ennumerated all into his own Catalogue"ambitransitiveliteraryrare