Obs. [a. OF. arivage act of landing, landing-place:—late L. arribāticum for *adrīpāticum, f. adrīpāre: see ARRIVE v. and -AGE. Orig. accented arriva·ge.]
1. The act of coming to shore or into port; landing, arrival.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 223. And previly toke arryvage In the contree of Cartage.
1413. Lydgate, Pylgr. Sowle, II. xli. 46. Here is the porte of syker arryuage.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VIII. vii. § 29. At his arriuage from Sea. Ibid. (1627), Eng. abridged, iii. § 5. Creeks and Hauens for Ships arriuage.
2. A landing-place.
c. 1450. Merlin, iii. 56. When they be come from their a-rivage, than go be-twene hem and the aryvage.
1542. Lam. & Piteous Treat., in Harl. Misc. (1745), IV. 512. Our Enemyes … went downe to our Arryuage, to Thentent to kyll theim, whom the Tempest had spared.
3. That which happens to or befalls one. Cf. ARRIVE 9 c.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 516. Man’s life is even a short passage, Paine upon paine is his arrivage: And then comes death that spareth none.
