arch.; also 6 anere, -eer, -erre, 7 annear. [f. A- pref. 11 + NEAR v.]

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  † 1.  intr. a. To draw near, or approach to. Obs.

2

1534.  State Papers, Henry VIII., II. 200. Diverse husbandmen aneryth un to hym.

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1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 54. Such troups as neauer too citty Troian aneered.

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  † b.  To be near or close to. Obs.

5

1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 66. A tumb to Troytowne and mouldy tempil aneereth.

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  2.  trans. To approach, come or be near to; to near. arch.

7

1586.  J. Hooker, Giraldus’s Hist. Irel., in Holinsh., II. 94/2. If they durst anerre the coast.

8

a. 1687.  P. Walsh, quoted in Q. Rev., XXXVIII. 543. Never has any other nation upon earth anneared the Milesian race (inhabiting Ireland) in the most unnatural, bloody, everlasting, destructive feuds that have been heard, or can well be imagined.

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1850.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, II. 52. The castle … to-night anears its fall.

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1875.  Myers, Poems, 2. Yet not in solitude if Christ anear me.

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