appropinquate

Etymology
From, present active infinitive of appropinquō, from ("towards") + propinquō (“draw near”), verbalization of propinquus (“near”); compare  ("near").

Verb

 * 1)  To approach; to near.
 * 2) * 1995. Ed. John Cunningham Wood, Piero Sraffa: Critical Assessments, page 67
 * The factor invoked by Kalecki to rationalize the phenomenon, however, appropinquates Sraffa's observations on capital markets.
 * 1) * 1873. John Taylor, Published by the Spencer Society; Works of John Taylor The Water Poet not Included in the Folio Volume of 1630: Second Collection, page 22
 * 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

Usage notes
Often used as an example of an overliterary word, as in Prolocutor's speech in Robert Landis's Liberty's Triumph (VIII.381) or John Maclaurin's poem On Johnson's Dictionary (l. 47). Older uses are usually intransitive, while more modern ones are either transitive or intransitive.