The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appropinquate
Appropinquate \Ap`pro*pin"quate\, v. i. [L. appropinquatus, p.
p. of appropinquare; ad + prope near.]
To approach. [Archaic]
--Ld. Lytton.
Wiktionary
appropinquate
vb. (''obscure'') to approach, to near