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▪ I. rendezvous, n.|ˈrɒndɪvuː, ˈrɛn-, rɑ̃devu|
Pl. rendezvous; formerly also rendezvouses. Forms: α. 6–7 rendez vouz, 7 vous, -vous, -vows, rendesvouz, rendizvouse, 7–8 rendesvous, rendezvouz, (7 -vouze, 8 -vouse), 7– rendezvous; 6–8 rendevous, -vouz(e, 7 -vouez, 7 rendevou, -vow, ren-de-vou. β. 7 randez-, 8 randizvous; 6–7 randevous, 7 -vouce, -vouze, -vowes, randivous, -voze, randavus, 9 dial. randivoose, -vooze; 7 randevow, -voo, randavou, -vow, 9 dial. randivoo, -ibo.
[F., subst. use of rendez vous ‘present or betake yourselves,’ 2nd pl. pres. imper. of rendre to render.]
1. Mil.
a. A place appointed for the assembling of troops or armed forces.
1591Coningsby Siege Rouen in Camden Misc. (1847) I. 22 Our army was marched..within a myle of Roan, where the rendevous was appoynted. 1600Holland Livy x. xxxiii. 375 He proclaimed the Rendez-vous at Sora, for his Soldiers there to meete. 1625Sir T. Dutton in Fortescue Papers (Camden) 212 So remote a place as Giteringberke assigned for our randevowes at this tyme of the yeare. 1630M. Godwyn tr. Bp. Hereford's Ann. Eng. 19 Alnewike is appointed the rendez-vous where all the troupes should meete at a set day. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. vii. 19 It was highly necessary to have a place of arms, a place of defence, and a rendezvous. 1772T. Simes Milit. Guide (1781) 11 The order of the march of the troops must be so disposed, that each should arrive at their rendezvous, if possible, on the same day. 1826Scott Woodst. xxii, I have..commissioned arms, levied money, appointed rendezvouses. 1874Froude Eng. in Irel. III. x. i. 357 Every man who could shoulder a pike was off to the rendezvous.
b. A place or port fixed upon, or suitable, for the assembling of a fleet or number of ships; also, instructions concerning a rendezvous (quot. 1813).
1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 188 Such harbors of the Newfoundland as were agreed for our Rendez-vouz. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 180 For the fleet..Niewport writte that they had their randevous at the Barbados. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 65 All the Ships had Orders, in case of Separation, for several Rendezvouses. 1798Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VII. p. cli, I hope to find all the Frigates on the Rendezvous. 1813Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XI. 162 It does however appear to me extraordinary that any master of a transport should think of running to any port not in his rendezvous. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 221 The Dutch West India Company..found its bay an invaluable rendezvous for the fleet cruising.
†c. A station for the supply of men to the navy. Obs. Also attrib.
1770Chron. in Ann. Reg. 169/1 All the rendezvous-lieutenants attended the Lord-Mayor..in order to have their warrants new backed for pressing. 1771Ibid. 71/2 Hearing he was on board the Oxford at Chatham, she entered at the rendezvous in London, for the same ship.
2. a. In general use: An appointed place of meeting or gathering; a place of common resort.
1594Lyly Moth. Bomb. ii. v, A tauerne is the Randeuous, the Exchange, the staple for good fellowes. 1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 297 The bed is the best Rendevou of mankind. 1663Gerbier Counsel 99 Foul creatures, who as soon gotten into a Court make it their randevouze. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 500 During his stay in the University of Oxford, his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits. 1725Pope Odyss. xviii. 377 Hence to the vagrant's rendezvous repair. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 110 His quarters became the rendezvouz of the malcontents. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xi, The place which he had named as a rendezvous..was held in general to be accursed. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 308 They have..the power of meeting on their own account, in which case their rendezvous is a church.
b. transf. and fig.
1608E. Grimstone Hist. France (1611) A ij b, This citie of Paris,..the Rendez-vous of the greatest miracles in the world. 1647Harvey Schola Cordis vii. 8 Thy body is disease's rendevouze. 1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1406/1 Field-Conventicles, those Rendezvouses of Rebellion.
†3.
a. A place of individual resort; a retreat, refuge. Obs.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. i. 57 A Randeuous, a Home to flye vnto. 1599― Hen. V, v. i. 88 Newes haue I that my Doll is dead..and there my rendeuous is quite cut off. 1641H. Thorndike Govt. Churches 34 This was a convenient rendez-vous for the Apostle, in the mean while, to preach the Gospel in the parts of Epirus. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. i. ii, I must make my addresse to you, for I haue no other Rendevous.
†b. A last resort or shift. Obs. rare—1.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. i. 18 When I cannot liue any longer, I will doe as I may: That is my rest, that is the rendeuous of it.
†c. A depot or store of provisions. Obs.—1
1608Capt. Smith True Relat. 35, 16 daies provision we had..besides our randevous we could, and might, haue hid in the ground.
†4.
a. to make or keep (one's) rendezvous, to meet, or be in the habit of meeting, in or at a place. Obs.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 244 Good companions and time-serues, who..make their Rendez-vows always where the best Cheere is stirring. 1624Gee Foot out of Snare v. 38 The feminine and softer sex..keep there their Rendeuouz. 1657North's Plutarch, Dionysius 946 To make their rende-vous with their Armes at a day set down at the Towne of the Leontines. 1749Fielding Tom Jones viii. xiii, The tavern where we kept our rendezvous.
†b. transf. of things. Obs. rare.
1622J. Reynolds God's Revenge iii. Hist. xv, The Lake of Geneva..payes its full tribute, and make[s] its chiefest Rendezvous before that City. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 505 There is a certaine place of sea, where these destracted tydes make their rancountering Randeuouze.
5. a. A meeting or assembly held by appointment or arrangement; † also, an assemblage or gathering of persons thus brought together.
1600Fairfax Tasso i. xix, The captaines cald foorthwith from euery tent, Vnto the Rende-vous he them inuites. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. iv. 211 Her great Hall, wherein So great a Randevow had lately bin. 1672Cave Prim. Chr. iii. ii. (1673) 263 Here was a whole randezvouz of Cripples. 1683Brit. Spec. 78 Here he commands a general Rendezvouz of all his Naval Forces. 1718F. Hutchinson Witchcraft 43 She met a Rendezvous of above Sixty Witches. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 17 May, He would not fail to give him the rendezvous at the hour he mentioned. 1819Scott Ivanhoe ii, Some rendezvous which had occupied the hours of darkness. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. vii, As if they had all been out..and were punctual at a general rendezvous to assist at the secret.
attrib.1792A. Young Trav. France 57 Music, chess, and the other common amusements of a rendezvouz-room.
†b. The assembling, or an assemblage, of things.
1652J. Hall Height of Eloquence p. xxii, It appears not a single passion, but a conflux and general rendez vouz of them all. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. ii. §11 All the account we have of the Origine of the world, is from this general Rendes-vous of Atoms in this infinite space. 1680Morden Geog. Rect. Introd. (1685) 6 The Ocean is a general Collection or Rendezvouz of all Waters.
c. The pre-arranged meeting (and usu. docking) of two or more spacecraft in space; an instance of this.
1959ARS Jrnl. Aug. 592/1 Many proposed space missions will require achieving rendezvous of two bodies in an orbit about a planet. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics ix. 385 Orbital operations involving rendezvous with satellites or space stations. 1962Listener 29 Nov. 901/2 The vehicle has to be put into a transfer-orbit which will take it from the Earth inward to the orbit of Venus, meeting the planet at a pre-selected rendezvous. 1965Times 16 Dec. 10/1 The Americans achieved the first rendezvous of man in space today. 1969Guardian 22 July 18/3 About ninety minutes after lift-off Eagle began the complex series of manoeuvres leading to rendezvous. 1973C. Sagan Cosmic Connection xix. 139 Rendezvous and docking maneuvers are reasonably well developed in manned missions even now.
6. Without article, in place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa 45 A place of Rendeuous or meeting for all such as trauell in Carauans from Tombuto. 1658W. Burton Itin. Antonin. 70 Their place of recourse, or rendezvous, when they acted their seeming extasies. 1711Steele Spect. No. 49 ⁋4 The Coffee-house is the Place of Rendezvous to all that live near it. 1748Anson's Voy. i. vi. 57 The first place of rendezvous should be the bay of port St. Julian. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea vi. 99 The one chosen by the Poles for their point of rendezvous. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun x. Wks. 1853 III. 20 St. Lucar being the port of rendezvous for the Peruvian expedition. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 101 They themselves indicate neither name nor place of rendezvous.
▪ II. rendezvous, v.|ˈrɒndɪvuː, ˈrɛn-, -vuːz, rɑ̃devu|
Forms: α. 7 rendevoze, -vooze, -vouze, 7–8 -vouz, 8 -vous; 7–8 rendes-, rendezvouz(e, 7– rendezvous (7 -vouse; pa. tense -voued). β. 7 randevous, randezvouse.
[f. prec.]
1. intr. To assemble at a place previously appointed; also generally, to assemble, come together, meet:
a. of troops, fleets, etc.
c1645Tullie Siege of Carlisle (1840) 28 They suborn'd great Companies..to come and rendevoze at Penrith. 1665Surv. Aff. Netherl. 74, 2800 sail of ships Rendesvouzed in the Sea-towns of Holland. 1678Hickes in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 46 Thereupon they resolved to rebel and in order thereto rendezvous this day in the Stewartry of Galloway. 1707E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. i. iii. 16 Spithead..is a Road where the Navy-Royal does frequently Rendevouz. 1780Jefferson Corr. Wks. 1859 I. 250 Our new recruits will rendezvous in this State between the 10th and 25th instant. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. i. 38 After rendezvousing at Batavia, the united fleet appeared on the coast of Coromandel. 1885G. S. Forbes Wild Life in Canara 20 They were also instructed to rendezvous promptly..at any point which might be threatened.
b. of persons in general, animals, or things.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. ii. §17 Particles, which will..never rest till they come to that empty space, where they may again Rendezvous together. 1665Pepys Diary 13 Sept., Here we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's, and there eat oysters. 1679Establ. Test 25 In a place remote from his quarter, he rendevouzes with his fellow adventurers. 1700Blackmore Paraphr., 34th ch. Isa. 264 The vultures there and all the eagle kind Shall rendezvous. 1771G. White Selborne xlvii, They [swallows] rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut tree. 1834Marryat P. Simple (1863) 46 The Blue Posts, where we always rendezvoused, was hardly opened. 1858Chambers Inform. (ed. 4) I. 709/1 That the herring do not rendezvous even in the deeper parts of our own seas. 1887Stevenson Merry Men, etc. 285 The fugitives rendezvous'd in the arbour.
c. To band together. rare—1.
1815M. Edgeworth Love & Law i. ii, They have all rendezvous'd to drive me mad.
d. Of a spacecraft or its crew: to effect a meeting in space, spec. to dock with another spacecraft.
1960IRE Trans. Aeronaut. & Navig. Electronics VII. 112/2 The system will eventually rendezvous at RR. 1966Punch 12 Jan. 68/2 Under bright Uranus We'll rendezvous in space. 1966Electronics 3 Oct. 134, 4 [sc. a computer] helped the crew rendezvous and link up with the Agena target on the first orbit. 1969Observer 20 July 7/2 Collins had a difficult time ‘space-walking’ to an Agena rocket with which they had rendezvoused.
†2. Of a commander: To assemble his troops or fleet. Obs.
1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 130 There at first he should have rendevoz'd. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 384 Cæsar..rendevouz'd at Brundusium, shipped off his twelve Legions, and sailed to Epirus. 1745H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 85 The Duke..will rendezvous at Stone.
3. a. trans. To bring together (troops or ships) at a fixed place. Now only U.S.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 672 Having Rendez⁓vous'd on the Banks of the River Calpes thirty thousand Foot,..he order'd them to move. a1700Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 179 Their Naval Strength o'er all their Ports diffus'd, They at a Day appointed rendezvous'd. 1780Jefferson in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) III. 11, I think the men will be rendezvoused within the present month. 1895J. Winsor Mississ. Basin 404 Amherst..had rendezvoused at Oswego about eleven thousand men.
b. To bring together, collect, assemble (persons or things). ? Obs.
1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 34 [He] minces the Text so small, that his Parishioners, until he rendevouz it again, can scarce tell what's become of it. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 371 What legions of angels might he have rendezvoued from heaven. 1719J. T. Philipps tr. Thirty-four Confer. 310 If all Men are to be rendevouz'd in a General Assembly to receive severally every one his Final Doom?
refl.1674Tillotson Serm. i. (1678) 41 How the innumerable blind parts of matter should rendezvous themselves into a world. 1684T. Smith in Phil. Trans. XIV. 443 The publick Coffee-houses..where the malecontents used to rendezvouz themselves.
†4. To crowd about, hem in (a person). Obs.—1
a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 326 A gentleman..was so rendezvoused about with beggars in London, that it cost him all the money in his purse to satisfy their importunity.
Hence † ˈrendezvouser, an associate. Obs.—1
a1734North Lives (1826) I. 309 His lordship retained such a veneration for the memory of his noble friend and patron..that all the old rendezvousers with him were so with his lordship. |