单词 | rencountering |
释义 | rencounteringn. Chiefly Scottish. rare after 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > [noun] mootOE gain-racea1340 again-cominga1382 encountering1482 rencountering1525 occursionc1540 encountrance1592 occurse1603 occurrence1607 affront1614 occursation1615 encountera1641 collision1664 vis-à-vis1867 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > meeting or encounter > [noun] > specifically of persons meetingc1330 rencountering1525 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxvii. f. lvii There was doone many a goodly feate of armes, and herde rencountrynges, and sore foynynge with speres. 1618 W. Lithgow Pilgrimes Farewell sig. B4v The losse of Friendes, their counsell, and their sight, The tender loue, in their rancountringes oft. 1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) ix. 87 What a Figure he would make at a Siege or Blockade, or Rencountring. 2. The action of rencounter v. ΚΠ 1666 in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1845) I. 489 My usual walk..was so solitary that I was never twice interrupted by rencountering of any. a1695 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. III (1696) 120 Here would be no justling or rencountering, no clashing or interfering of Interests. 1713 tr. Acct. Abolishing Duels in France ii. 47 Many have sought for Occasions of Rencountering. 1756 Sc. Gardiner i. vii. 37 Suppose the sole of the door, till the plumb fall right in rencountering. 1900 S. R. Crockett Isle of Winds (1902) xviii. 146 This cat-and-dog rencountering I need not write down, though I can remember it well enough. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † rencounteringadj. Scottish. Obsolete. rare. Coming together, meeting. ΚΠ 1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 27 v The crosse of rancountring misfortunes. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 505 There is a certaine place of sea, where these destracted tydes make their rancountering Randeuouze, that whirleth euer about. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1525adj.1609 |
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