† enterfeatn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s enterfeat, 1600s interfeat.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: enter- prefix, feat n.

Etymology: < enter- prefix + feat n., after Middle French entrefaicte, entrefaite undertaking, action (13th cent. in Old French as entrefaitte).With the form interfeat compare inter- prefix.

Obsolete.

An exchange of military actions or feats between two sides; a military engagement, a battle. Only in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > warlike deed(s)

armsa1393

portment of arms1485

enterfeat1550

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. iii. f. clxxviii^v And in thies enterfeats [Fr. entrefaictes] ended the wynter, whych was the .xviii yeare of the warre.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. viii. §8. 139 The varietie of which enter-feats was such, that the Thebans themselues were drawne, by the losse of the Hauen of Corinth, to sue for peace.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) ii. 465 During which Interfeats of Arms, and Exchange of Pens.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	enterfeat
释义	† enterfeatn. Forms: 1500s–1600s enterfeat, 1600s interfeat. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: enter- prefix, feat n. Etymology: < enter- prefix + feat n., after Middle French entrefaicte, entrefaite undertaking, action (13th cent. in Old French as entrefaitte).With the form interfeat compare inter- prefix. Obsolete. An exchange of military actions or feats between two sides; a military engagement, a battle. Only in plural. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > warlike deed(s) armsa1393 portment of arms1485 enterfeat1550 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War vii. iii. f. clxxviii^v And in thies enterfeats [Fr. entrefaictes] ended the wynter, whych was the .xviii yeare of the warre. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. viii. §8. 139 The varietie of which enter-feats was such, that the Thebans themselues were drawne, by the losse of the Hauen of Corinth, to sue for peace. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) ii. 465 During which Interfeats of Arms, and Exchange of Pens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1550
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