rencountern.
/rɛnˈkaʊntə/, /rɛŋˈkaʊntə/, U.S. /rɛnˈkaʊn(t)ər/, /rɛŋˈkaʊn(t)ər/ Now rare.† 3. An experience or event undergone or encountered by a person, esp. an unpleasant one. Obsolete.† 4. More fully vessel of rencounter. = retort n.1 1. Obsolete.† 5. Heraldry. The head of a beast shown with full face, but with no part of the neck visible. Also in rencounter (in quot. apparently in extended use, of a fleece). Cf. rencontre n. 6 Obsolete. rare.Never part of English heraldic terminology (the quots. show anglicized forms but are ultimately derived from A. Furetière Dict. universel (1690)); the standard English equivalent would be head caboshed (see caboched adj.).
1. † c. An argument, dispute, or contest; (in early use) esp. a contest of wit, an exchange of repartee. Obsolete.
a. An encounter or engagement between two opposing military forces; a battle, a skirmish.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun]
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1471 Earl of Oxford in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 185 Entendyng fro thens to goo foorth..to the rencountre of the said enemyes.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxxxiv. 106 At the first rencounter many were ouerthrowen.
1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks i. f. 56 Amorathe, and Aladino,..in the rencountre that they had wyth Selim [etc.].
1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 59 Recounte all the..rencounters of a very fewe Catholikes against the heretikes and rebelles in Flanders.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 419 Tartars are not..so manly as the Polonians, who counter-blow them at rancounters.
1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 169 There lately happened a rancounter between some forces of the French..and some Spaniards.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 28. ⁋8 There are mentioned several Rencounters between..Detachments of the Swedish and Russian Armies.
1781 T. Jefferson Let. 18 Jan. in Papers (1951) IV. 399 Three little rencounters have happened with the enemy.
1821 W. Aiton Hist. Rencounter at Drumclog iii. 109 There was then no ditch whatever, at or near the place of the rencounter.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. iv. 482 The Russian Armies had only to show themselves to beat the Turks in every rencounter.
1918 Mil. Surgeon 28 368 The various types of engagements must be appreciated and the special conditions that present themselves in a rencounter.
b. A hostile engagement between two individuals; a fight; spec. a duel. Now chiefly historical.In early use sometimes distinguishing (after similar use of French rencontre) an unpremeditated duel from a regular, formal one.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel
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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb6 He gan to feare His toward perill,..Which by that new rencounter he should reare.
1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle ii. 14 Pox ont, a Rencounter is nothing when thou art us'd to't.
1686 G. Mackenzie Observ. Acts Parl. 311 Fighting by rencounter may be punished as a duel, though there was no formal cartal.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋7 A Rencounter or Duel was..far from being in Fashion among the Officers that serv'd in the Parliament-Army.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xl. 257 Duelling is often deemed a rencounter, and as such is pardoned.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. v. 124 We will dine together and arrange matters for this rencounter. I hope you understand the use of the weapon?
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. viii. 294 The latter were wont to repair to Granada to settle their affairs of honor, by personal rencounter.
1906 Amer. State Rep. 108 39 You believe from the evidence that Bradley assaulted Morscheimer and brought on the rencounter between himself and Morscheimer.
1978 P. O'Brian Desolation Island ii. 53 You are to consider, that very few rencounters result in so much as a scratch, if that.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition
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1594 A. Hume Treat. Felicitie sig. C4v Pretty and quicke conceits, and rancounters of Comediens.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 386 The Sycilians..are full of witty sentences, and pleasant in their rancounters.
1652 M. Nedham in tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea Ep. Ded. Our late Wars, wherein the Pen Militant hath had as many sharp rancounters as the Sword.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 166 If so I should, as often it happens in such Rencounters, not onely draw Mr. Bayes, but J. O. too upon my back.
1681 Dialogue Philautus & Timotheus viii. 12 Now for the Rancounter, as thy War-like word is.
1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. i. 68 This Rencounter had not a little ruffled Jacob's mild Disposition.
1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 47 We have a right to lard our history with rencounters and conquests of these voracious animals.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. ix. 212 Mr. Falkland's servants, hearing the bustle of the rencounter [etc.].
1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 69 Few quarrels and rencounters happened among the boys.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. i. 7 That unequal rencounter between foolish innocence and the predatory.
2. † a. The action or fact of coming together, meeting, or colliding. Obsolete.† c. An impact, a collision. Also in extended use. Obsolete.
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1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1050/1 He was vnhorsed with the rencounter of an english speare.
1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 54 In the various Rencounter of Bodies knocking and jostling one against another the only Part of us that is acted upon, is our Body.
1700 T. Taylor tr. N. Malebranche Treat. conc. Light & Colours in Treat. conc. Search after Truth i. i. 3 All Motions proceed in a right line, unless otherwise determin'd by the Rencounter, of some foreign and particular Causes.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 314 Millions of People dread the Rencounter of an Algerine as they would that of a crew of Dæmons.
1780 T. A. Mann in Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 619 When two equal currents of homogeneous fluids meet in opposite directions, there is first a swelling and rising up of them at the point of rencounter.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. vii. 166 I was made uneasy by the rencounter of the traveller.
1810 W. Marrat Introd. Theory & Pract. Mech. ii. i. 130 In this state, the first point of rencounter may be taken as a new point of departure.
1849 tr. A. Vinet Gospel Stud. 131 It is necessary at the moment of rencounter to put your heart in safety.
1899 C. C. Harrison Circle of Cent. 103 The landlord of the Dog and Duck, bustling out to the rencounter of customers on this dripping evening.
b. A meeting, esp. a chance encounter. Also in extended use. Now archaic.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > encounter
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 488 My formalists durst neuer attempt..any passing countenance in our rancounters.
1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice iii. 30 My Eyes and the Picture had never any rencounter since.
1715 J. Vanbrugh tr. F. C. Dancourt Country House i. 15 Bar. We have not seen one another since we were school-fellows before. Marquis. The happiest Rencounter!
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xvi. 127 I was so well pleas'd with this rencounter..that I forgot my resentment.
1785 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 406 My next business..was to be presented [to the king]..I had only to prepare myself for the rencounter.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 88 The casual rencounter had the appearance of a providential interference.
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. Sequel 312 Perhaps at this remote season the embarrassment of a rencounter would not have been intense.
1909 R. Brooke Let. Apr. (1968) 165 I don't know what meals (if any) I shall be free for, so I can scarcely arrange any rencounter.
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent > collision
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1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. i. §8 By their frequent rancounters and justlings one upon another, they at last link themselves together.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub xi. 199 My Nose and this very Post should have a Rencounter.
1723 E. Chambers tr. S. Le Clerc Treat. Archit. I. 67 Projecting Bodies, just at its own height..seem to menace the Eye with a Rencounter.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 92 In this theory, Doctor Hutton wisely steers clear of a rencounter with the sun.
1815 O. Gregory Treat. Mech. (ed. 3) I. ii. 174 To find the time and place of their rencounter.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant experience
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1589 J. Eliot tr. Duke de Montpencier in Aduise Catholike Gentleman 44 You haue met with some ill rencounter, which hath hindered you so long from imparting vnto mee your letters.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Kings v. 4 But now our Lord my God hath geuen me rest round about: there is no satan, nor il rencounter.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 62 The Turkes..were mindfull to giue vs the new rancounter of a second alarum.
1645 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1841) I. 52 The first rancounter I had at Campheir was that thair I hard that [etc.].
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 114 Our hard entrance into the World, our miserable going out of it, our..sad Rencounters in it.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > retorts or stills
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1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. vii. 212/1 Cover the Cucurbit with a Vessel of Rencounter, luting it well.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Age Fit a Rencounter to the long Neck, lute the Junctures very close.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rencounter, or Rencontre, in Heraldry, is applied to Animals when they shew the Head in Front, with both Eyes, &c.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) He bears Sable, in Rencounter, a Golden Fleece.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rencounterv.
/rɛnˈkaʊntə/, U.S. /rɛnˈkaʊn(t)ər/α. late Middle English–1600s rencountre, late Middle English– rencounter, 1600s rancountre, 1600s–1700s rancounter; also Scottish pre-1700 ranckuntre, pre-1700 rancounter, pre-1700 rancownter, pre-1700 rancowntre, pre-1700 rantcounter, pre-1700 rencowntre.
β. Scottish pre-1700 1800s ramcounter.
Now rare.† 2. intransitive with reciprocal sense. Of two combatants: to encounter each other in battle. Obsolete. rare.† 4. intransitive with reciprocal sense. Of people: to meet one another; to meet up. Obsolete. rare (archaic in later use).† 5. † 6. intransitive. To move counter to something. Obsolete. rare.† 7. transitive. To oppose, reverse. Obsolete. rare.
1. † b. intransitive. Originally and chiefly Scottish. With with. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To engage or encounter (an enemy, an opposing army, etc.) in a battle or fight; (occasionally) spec. to challenge (a person) to a fight or duel. rare after 18th cent.
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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > have hostile encounter with
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1463 King Edward IV in J. O. Halliwell Lett. Kings Eng. (1846) I. 131 Purposing, therefore, to enter our land on Monday or Tuesday next coming, arready us, with the mystery of God's might, to rencounter, resist, and repress their intent.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 34 Preamble With the Kinges hooste roiall..they were rencountered, vaynquesshed, dispersed.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iv. sig. D5v But th'Elfin knight,..Him rencountring fierce, reskewd the noble pray.
a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 45 Boadicia..bearing down all before her till rancountred by Suetonius.
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus iv. 90 Forced him to return back into the Battel, where General Sobieski with a party Rencountred him.
1728 Guide to Knowl. Publick Affairs xlviii. 315 The Place where the same Hercules rencountered the famous Giant and Murderer Antæus, and killed him.
1757 W. Maitland Hist. & Antiq. Scotl. II. 975 On her return to Edinburgh, having but a few attendants, she was rencountered by Bothwell, near Linlithgow, with a numerous band.
1772 W. Hooper tr. L. S. Mercier Mem. Year Two Thousand Five Hundred I. xvi. 99 The enraged man..rencountered the other, the day before yesterday, in a private path without the city.
1978 J. A. B. van Buitenen tr. Mahābhārata iv. 99 To get them with all their speed To rencounter this mass of lionlike warriors!
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1608 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 539 He thaireftir rancounterit with the said vmqle Thomas [etc.].
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 475 The English rencounters with the Dutch Smyrna fleet..and takes some of them.
1780 Hist. Feuds & Confl. Clans Scotl. 26 It fortuned that Henry Sinclair and his company rencountered first with the Clan-Gun.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > join or meet in battle
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to engage a combat1855
to run (or ride) a-tilt1862
1497 P. Butler Let. 7 Sept. in J. Graves & A. Prim Hist. Cathedral Church St. Canice (1857) ii. ii. 194 Sr James and I..rencountred and fought togeders so long till God had wrought his will upon hym.
1591 King James VI & I Lepanto 11 Betwixt the baptiz'd race And circumcised Turband Turkes, Rencountring in that place.
3. Originally Scottish.† b. intransitive. Chiefly Scottish. With with. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To meet with, esp. to meet (a person) by chance; to encounter, chance upon, come across.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience > of a person
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to come on ——a1599
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1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 404 A schip of the toun of Tweisk..and ane uther schip..wer in thair dew cours rancounterit and takin be a schip of weare.
c1600 in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 492 Gif ony persoun..is haldand ane horse..on ane brig..meitis and rancounteris ony uther persoun..drivand twa or ma horse [etc.].
1611 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 157 I wes exceeding glaid to have rencountered that occasion to offer to your lordschip this discours.
1672 T. Shadwell Miser v. 75 I wonder who those Fellows were we rancounter'd last night.
1696 J. Aubrey Miscellanies 72 A Minister walking over the Park to give Sir John Warre a visit, was rencountred by a venerable old man.
1751 T. Mortimer tr. J. Gautier Life & Mil. Exploits Pyrrhus i. 39 He was contented to go as far as the Ocean, subduing every thing that he rencountered on the Way.
1788 Authentic Detail Particulars Relative to Late Duchess Kingston 74 Dessein and her Grace never rencountered each other without parting the dearest friends in the world.
1800 E. A. Kendall Swallow xvii. 131 One day..he rencountered the identical Wagtail.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae iv. 97 On the occasion I had the good fortune to rencounter you at Durrisdeer.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 383 One worthy acquaintance, Mr Malachi Mulligan, now appeared in the doorway..accompanied with a friend he had just rencountered.
1997 J. D. Canfield Tricksters & Estates ix. 184 Antonio sweetens his class revenge against Isabella..by arranging for her to rencounter Guiliom in his propria persona.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > come across or meet with
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 330 To my great contentment, I rancountred here with a countrey Gentleman of mine.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 373 Vpon the seauenth day, wee rancountred with another soyle.
1644 W. Mure Let. in Wks. (1898) Introd. 16 We are now lying before Newcastle engaiged anew to rancounter wt new dangers.
a1830 W. Dimond Lady & Devil (1849) i. i. 10 There, upon each succeeding day, have I rencountered with my charmer about the hour of noon.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xix. 218 Him I found already at his desk..in the same ante-room where I rencountered with James More.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > come across or meet with > each other
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1601 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Rancounter v I howp that the providence off the Almychtie hes maid us so happely to rancounter.
1786 J. Gillies Hist. Anc. Greece I. iii. 130 They seldom rencountered in the streets or walks, without discovering their animosity in mutual reproaches, and sometimes in blows.
1802 Ld. Campbell Let. 8 Sept. in Life (1881) I. iv. 100 They had arrived before me, but through some misunderstanding we never rencountered.
1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes iii. 21 Here it chaunced, that upon their quest, Sir Galahad and Sir Percivale rencountered in the depths of a great forest.
a. transitive. To collide or come into heavy physical contact with. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)] > collide with
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to run up against1625
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1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 38 The Repulse or Antiperistasis, which the hot and dry exhalations meet with by rancountring the cold Clouds.
1685 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II I. 146 Men wander about in the dark, and justle and rancounter one another.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur vii. 201 Swords clashing Swords, and Shields rencountring Shields.
b. intransitive. Of physical objects: to come together, collide. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide
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1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 8 Could stupid Atomes..From Regions opposite begin their Flight, That here they might Rencounter, here Unite?
1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) II. xvi. App. 263 The balls will seem to rencounter and pass over each other.
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1689 T. Plunket Char. Good Commander 28 Ran-counter to the counter-part, and you Perchance some un-expected thing may do.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)]
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to go again ——OE
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to set one's hand against1635
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to come across ——1653
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to cross upon (or on)1661
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retroact?1761
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to set against ——1859
appose-
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > arrange in sequence or series [verb (transitive)] > reverse natural or proper order
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1689 E. Hickeringill Ceremony-monger v. 49 To Rancounter and Ruffle the whole course of Nature, and make Heaven a pair of Stairs..to Hell.
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