verb. (euphemistic).—To possess a woman: see RIDE. Hence APPROACHABLE = willing, RIPE (q.v.), COMING (q.v.).
1611. Bible, Lev. xviii. 6. None of you shall APPROACH to any that is near of kin to him.
1798. COLEBROOKE, A Digest of Hindu Law (1801), III. 196. If either brother … APPROACH the wife he is degraded.
