rendezvousn.
/ˈrɒndᵻvuː/, /ˈrɒndeɪvuː/, U.S. /ˈrɑndəˌvu/, /ˈrɑndeɪˌvu/α. 1500s rende vow, 1500s–1600s rendes-vous, 1500s–1600s rendeuous, 1500s–1600s rende vous, 1500s–1600s rendez vouz, 1500s–1700s rendez-vous, 1500s– rendevous (now nonstandard), 1500s– rendezvous, 1600s rendavouz, 1600s rendeuouz, 1600s rendevooze, 1600s ren-de-vou, 1600s rende-vous, 1600s rendevouse, 1600s rendevouze, 1600s rendevow, 1600s rendevoze, 1600s rendez vous, 1600s rendezvouze, 1600s rendezvows, 1600s rendez-vows, 1600s rendivouz, 1600s rendizvouse, 1600s–1700s rendesvous, 1600s–1700s rendesvouz, 1600s–1700s rendesvouze, 1600s–1700s rendevou, 1600s–1700s rendezvouse, 1600s–1700s rendezvouz, 1600s–1800s rendevouz, 1700s rendevou', 1700s rendezvou, 1800s rende'vous; Scottish pre-1700 rendee vous, pre-1700 rendes-vous, pre-1700 rendevouez, pre-1700 rendevous, pre-1700 rendevouse, pre-1700 rendevouz, pre-1700 rendezvouze, pre-1700 rendivouze, pre-1700 rendzevouz, pre-1700 1700s rendevouze, pre-1700 1700s– rendezvous, 1700s rendewoz, 1700s rendivouzie, 1800s rendevoos.
β. 1500s–1600s randeuous, 1500s–1600s randevous, 1600s randavou, 1600s randavous, 1600s randa-vow, 1600s randavus, 1600s randeuouze, 1600s randevoo, 1600s randevoos, 1600s randevou, 1600s randevouse, 1600s randevouz, 1600s randevouze, 1600s randevow, 1600s randevowe, 1600s randevowes, 1600s randezvouse, 1600s randezvouz, 1600s randivoze, 1600s–1700s randezvous, 1600s–1700s randizvous; English regional (chiefly south-western) 1800s– randibew, 1800s– randibo (Northumberland), 1800s– randivoo, 1800s– randivoose, 1800s– randivooze, 1800s– randyvoo, 1800s– rangevouge, 1800s– rumsey-voos; Scottish pre-1700 randavouse, pre-1700 randesvouze, pre-1700 randesvowes, pre-1700 randeswouze, pre-1700 randeszwous, pre-1700 randeszwouse, pre-1700 randevoise, pre-1700 randevose, pre-1700 randevouce, pre-1700 randevoues, pre-1700 randevous, pre-1700 randevouse, pre-1700 randevouye, pre-1700 randevouz, pre-1700 randevouze, pre-1700 randevowe, pre-1700 randevoyes, pre-1700 randevoys, pre-1700 randewoues, pre-1700 randewous, pre-1700 randewouz, pre-1700 randewowze, pre-1700 randezeavous, pre-1700 randezvou, pre-1700 randezvous, pre-1700 randezvouse, pre-1700 randezvouze, pre-1700 randievouze, pre-1700 randievowes, pre-1700 randie-vowes, pre-1700 randiewoyes, pre-1700 randisvow, pre-1700 randivoes, pre-1700 randivoues, pre-1700 randivouize, pre-1700 randivous, pre-1700 randivouse, pre-1700 randivouze, pre-1700 randivow, pre-1700 randiwoos, pre-1700 randiwous, pre-1700 randiwowes, pre-1700 randizvooze, pre-1700 randizwous, 1800s randyvoo; Irish English (chiefly northern) 1900s– randyboise, 1900s– randyboo, 1900s– randyboose, 1900s– randybooze, 1900s– randyvoo.
1. The action of meeting or assembling, either habitually or for an appointed purpose. Chiefly in place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly
meeting-place1553
place (point, port, etc.) of rendezvous1556
meeting1598
emporium1683
rallying place1759
rallying point1759
meeting-ground1840
parish pump1840
point1967
1556 Let. in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) iv. 159 Naming himself to be Erle of Devon, he hath, by spreading abroade of ranndevouse lres [= letters], and proclamacons, pcured as moch as in hym lay, to stirre the K. and Quene's Maties subjects, in those pts, to rebellion.
1582 R. Madox Register 24 June in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) App. 289 The Cape of Good Hope..was the best place of rende vow.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. 45 A place of Rendeuous or meeting for all such as trauell in Carauans from Tombuto.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 70 Their place of recourse, or rendezvous, when they acted their seeming extasies.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 49. ⁋4 The Coffee-house is the Place of Rendezvous to all that live near it.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vi. 57 The first place of rendezvous should be the bay of port St. Julian.
1789 C. Smith Ethelinde V. vii. 145 She..was dressed, and waiting with impatience for the hour of rendezvous.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea vi. 99 The one chosen by the Poles for their point of rendezvous.
1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun x, in Wks. (1853) III. 20 St. Lucar being the port of rendezvous for the Peruvian expedition.
1881 Liverpool Mercury 15 Aug. 3/9 A committee of the Town Council is..co-operating with the military staff on questions of rendezvous in the meadows and public buildings.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 53/1 Could it be possible..that Gustav would..make the château a place of rendezvous for himself and his accomplices?
1957 J. M. Hamilton From Wilderness to Statehood i. ii. 8 The place of rendezvous was the east bank of the Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Missouri.
2004 Jrnl. Early Republic 24 566 The fire engines..seem to have served as hospitable points of rendezvous for the exhausted but elated rioters.
2. Military.
a. A designated place of assembly for a fleet or number of ships. Now also: a designated place of assembly for aircraft.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing in company > place of assembly
rendezvous1589
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval station > port for assembling fleet
rendezvous1589
1589 E. Hayes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 683 Such harbours of the Newfoundland as were agreed for our Rende vous.
1655 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 180 For the fleet..Niewport writte that they had their randevous at the Barbados.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 65 All the Ships had Orders, in case of Separation, for several Rendezvouses.
1798 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. cli I hope to find all the Frigates on the Rendezvous.
1861 S. F. Du Pont Let. 15 Oct. in Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies War of Rebellion (U.S. Naval War Rec. Office) (1901) 1st Ser. XII. 218 In the event of separation, the rendezvous is Hampton Roads.
1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 221 The Dutch West India Company..found its bay an invaluable rendezvous for the fleet cruising.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Oct. 11/2 Cossack is the great rendezvous of the pearl-shelling fleet.
1919 J. S. Corbett Campaign Trafalgar I. 59 Not till the 9th could he [sc. Nelson] get to his rendezvous in the Gulf of Palmas.
1943 Mil. Affairs 7 76 The planes were to return in an irregular course to a rendezvous behind the balloon line where they would reform.
2002 J. D. Grainger Rom. War Antiochos the Great ix. 195 Skiathos was the rendezvous for the next stage, which may imply that the ships sailed independently from Imbros.
b. A designated meeting place for troops or armed forces.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > military position > [noun] > place for assembling troops
place of arms1588
rendezvous?1591
rendy1605
place d'armes1833
?1591 T. Coningsby Jrnl. Siege Rouen (Harl. 288) 22 in Camden Misc. (1847) I Our army was marched..within a myle of Roan, where the rendevous was appoynted.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxxiii. 375 He proclaimed the Rendez-vous at Sora, for his Soldiers there to meete.
1625 Sir T. Dutton in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 212 So remote a place as Giteringberke assigned for our randevowes at this tyme of the yeare.
a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom of Sutherland (1813) 378 Strathvllie, which wes the randivouze appoynted for their meitting.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 19 It was highly necessary to have a place of arms, a place of defence, and a rendezvous.
1772 T. Simes Mil. 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.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 257 I have..commissioned arms, levied money, appointed rendezvous.
1848 Daily News 21 Oct. 2/4 This latter town seems to be the rendezvous for all the troops marching towards Vienna.
1874 J. A. Froude Eng. in Ireland III. x. i. 357 Every man who could shoulder a pike was off to the rendezvous.
1901 McClure's Mag. Mar. 408/1 It was on May 29th..that the first soldiers left their rendezvous.
1946 B.B.C. War Rep. 78 In the darkness and bad weather the paratroops were widely scattered and only 150 men reached the rendezvous for the attack.
2006 Times (Nexis) 27 June 60 Short of the rendezvous, Otway met the leader of the battalion reconnaissance party.
c. A naval recruiting station. Now historical.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval station > recruiting station
rendezvous1771
1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 169/1 All the rendezvous-lieutenants attended the Lord-Mayor..in order to have their warrants new backed for pressing.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 71/2 Hearing he was on board the Oxford at Chatham, she entered at the rendezvous in London, for the same ship.
1804 in D. Knox Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Records) (1941) III. 509 Open rendezvous immediately and use your most strenuous exertions to enter 120 able seamen and 100 ordinary seamen.
1808 W. Brown Affidavit 26 Apr. in Mariner's Mirror (1953) 39 263 He entered..at the Rendezvous at New York, for the American Frigate Chesapeak.
1865 London Society Nov. 475/2 Tower Hill, the chief recruiting rendezvous for the British navy.
1912 Proc. U.S. Naval Inst. Dec. 1334 On April 30 the commandants of the navy yards and the naval rendezvous were authorized to enlist seamen to serve for one year.
2004 J. Sugden Nelson vi. 118 One cold night, while searching for recruits about the Tower, his legs gave way and Bromwich carried him back to the rendezvous on his back.
d. Instructions concerning a rendezvous. rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > sailing orders > concerning a rendezvous
rendezvous1813
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > [noun] > naval station > port for assembling fleet > instructions concerning
rendezvous1813
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (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.
1942 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 26 Oct. in War Diaries (2001) 334 Apparently Clark flew to Gib; as no rendezvous had yet arrived he went on by submarine and had the rendezvous wirelessed to him.
3. † c. Australian. A place where a group of cattle habitually gather to rest. Obsolete.
a. gen. A meeting place; esp. a habitual or popular one.
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the world > space > place > [noun] > place of meeting or assembly > appointed
tristc1330
tryst1487
tristrea1500
rendezvous1594
trysting place1633
trysting ground1838
tryst-place1851
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. v. sig. D3 A tauerne is the Randeuous, the Exchange, the staple for good fellowes.
1614 R. S. in T. Overbury et al. Wife now Widdow Newes from Bed sig. H4 The bed is the best rendevou of mankind.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 99 Foul creatures, who as soon gotten into a Court make it their randevouze.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 500 During his stay in the University of Oxford, his Chamber was the rendezvouz of all the eminent Wits.
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xviii. 377 Hence, to the vagrant's rendezvous repair.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. v. 110 His quarters became the rendezvouz of the malcontents.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 221 She met him pensively walking in the path between their former rendezvous and the cottage.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 285 The place which he had named as a rendezvous..was held in general to be accursed.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 308 They have..the power of meeting on their own account, in which case their rendezvous is a church.
1899 Dict. National Biogr. LVII. 378/2 The ‘cero-plastic studio’..became for a time a popular rendezvous for Parisian notabilities.
1913 R. McNab Old Whaling Days 288 Those [whales] which survived forsook their long established rendezvous to seek new grounds for food.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 198 The show place, the rendezvous of..playboys, sightseers and international whacks is the St. Germain des Prés quarter.
1988 P. Carey Oscar & Lucinda xlii. 184 It was he who had suggested this rendezvous. He knew what sort of place it was.
2007 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 18 Dec. This busy hotel bar is a chic rendezvous for locals as well as guests.
b. In extended use: a place where or person in which things are collected or brought together, or certain qualities, feelings, etc., are found.
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1604 T. Winter tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Third Dayes Creation 5 Those streames of some great riuer are deuoured, Which ouerswaying fields, at length is powred Into that Rendez-vous, where God assigned They should discharge the taxes they were fined.
1608 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres Gen. Inventorie Hist. France (1611) A ij b This citie of Paris,..the Rendez-vous of the greatest miracles in the world.
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iv. 111 She being the perfect rendezvous of all royall vertues, could produce nothing but what was worthy to governe.
1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis vii. 8 Thy body is disease's rendevouze.
1679 London Gaz. No. 1406/1 Field-Conventicles, those Rendezvouses of Rebellion.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. v. 107 She gave herself up to all the Luxuries of Life, and her House was a general Rendezvous of Pleasure.
1799 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Force of Calumny v. vii. 97 Morland's house is a school of morals, his table the rendez-vous of innocent cheerfulness.
1812 Dramatic Censor 1811 99 There shall not be the nuisance called a basket, which is the constant rendezvous of tumult and profligacy.
1871 Brit. Jrnl. Homoeopathy 29 112 The whole surface of the body is a rendezvous of plasters, poultices, fomentations, [etc.].
1930 Z. Fitzgerald Coll. Writings (1991) 367 The land is lone and virginal; here is a rendezvous of weathers.
1999 C. Maier tr. M. Zambrano Delirium & Destiny i. 108 Man is a rendezvous of elements, and life is a loan to be returned willingly when the time comes.
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1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. v. 59 A spot on which cattle are thus in the habit of assembling and basking during the day is called a ‘rendezvous’, and is easily known, for..the surface of the ground becomes smooth and hard.
1865 G. F. Angas Austral. 282 From the main body of the herd, dimly seen through a dense cloud of dust, a succession of furious animals break off on all sides, some making back to their ‘rendezvous’.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer II. 133 A cattle ‘camp’ is a rendezvous, used by a subdivision of a herd of cattle for purposes apparently of friendly gathering, converse, and social recreation—a Bovine Club.
4.
a. Military. An assembly or gathering of troops, vessels, etc., held at an appointed place; spec. a muster of troops.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > muster
muster1419
wappenschawing1424
mustering1440
wappenschawa1503
rendezvous1596
assembly1917
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 70 The trained companies only shall resort to the places of their appointed Rendeuous.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. xix. 5 The captaines cald foorthwith from euery tent, Vnto the Rende-vous he them inuites.
1672 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1672/6/7a All the officers and souldiers to horse or foote shall, at the first rendevouse of each regiment or troupe..take the oath of allegiance.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 32 The King..quarter'd the night at Bridgenorth..where there was a Rendezvous of the whole army.
1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 390 Enjoined to appear at Newcastle on the day of the general rendezvous.
1796 Brit. Critic Nov. 482 At the rendezvous held in consequence of this general summons..there appeared Francis Lord Talbot.
1839 H. R. Schoolcraft Algic Researches I. 93 The warriors dropping off, one by one,..each sought his way to the place appointed for the rendezvous, on the confines of the enemy's country.
1863 Missouri Democrat 8 Jan. in F. Moore Rebellion Rec. VI. ii. 311/2 This was to be the last rendezvous of the fleet before it started out for active operations on Vicksburgh.
1884 Reynold's Newspaper 16 Mar. 1/2 The rendezvous was held at the wells, where the Naval Brigade and the Marines..joined the other troops.
1913 M. M. Quiafe Chicago & Old Northwest ii. 45 As part of an elaborately planned campaign,..the French arranged for the rendezvous at Chicago of forces from Detroit, from the Wabash, [etc.].
1946 D. W. Mitchell Hist. Mod. Amer. Navy xvii. 404 After a brief rendezvous 900 miles northwest of Hawaii, it [sc. the Japanese fleet] was given final attack orders.
2003 Scotsman (Nexis) 25 Feb. 2 A young pro-Axis officer..tried to rally the Egyptian troops at a rendezvous at the foot of the Pyramids.
b. gen. A meeting held at an appointed time and place. Also in extended use.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting
synagoguea1300
councilc1340
collect1382
convent1382
convocation1387
samingc1400
advocationa1425
meetingc1425
steven1481
congress1528
concion1533
conference1575
collection1609
congression1611
divan1619
rendezvous1628
comitia1631
society1712
majlis1821
get-up1826
agora1886
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer iv. 211 Her great Hall, wherein So great a Randevow had lately bin.
a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 182 in Compl. Wks. (1731) A little Valley..was the Place they made choice on for their Rendezvous, and Regale.
1792 Archæol. Scot. I. 194 Each of these communities agreed to build a tower..which was to serve as the place of their rendezvous on Lammas day.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe ii. 30 He glided home from some rendezvous which had occupied the hours of darkness.
1847 N. J. Wyeth Let. 13 Dec. (1899) 254 We reached..the head of Lewis River where there was then a rendezvous of Trappers and Indians.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vii. 59 As if they had all been out..and were punctual in a general rendezvous to assist at the secret.
1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 7/1 At a second rendezvous, held in a restaurant,..the ‘Man of Crime’ turned up in a new character.
1954 M. Savill tr. J.-P. Sartre In Mesh 82 This is the third contact man in the last two months who's been picked up at a rendezvous fixed by Benga.
1983 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Triangle xii. 68 Someone who could have arranged their rendezvous with the inevitable?
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Nov. Details of [the player's]..rendezvous at a Fulham restaurant came to light yesterday.
c. A prearranged romantic encounter; an assignation, a tryst.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > romantic appointment
rendezvous1697
date1885
date night1910
1697 tr. Female Falshood ii. 111 This Disappointment something cool'd my Passion, when the Lady, who observ'd it, used such Means to reflame me, as made me imagine this was not the first Rendezvous she had had.
1727 E. F. Haywood Secret Hist. Present Intrigues Court of Caramania 202 The haste he made to arrive at it, had very much the Air of an amorous Rendezvous.
1889 Theatre 16 Nov. 55/2 One of them had just issued from his first rendezvous with a married woman.
1955 Jet 6 Oct. 48 British soldier Henry Carter slipped out of his barracks to keep his first midnight rendezvous with the comely black nurse, Naomi.
2003 C. B. Bailey Age of Watteau, Chardin & Fragonard 166/1 An illicit rendezvous in a bower is interrupted by the arrival of a maid to warn her mistress of the approach of an unwelcome visitor.
d. A chance meeting; an unplanned encounter. (With explanatory adjective.)
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1764 tr. J.-F. Marmontel Moral Tales II. 285 What was he to think, what to hope from this unforeseen rendezvous?
1796 Comtesse de Genlis Knights of Swan III. 103 This unexpected rendezvous gave more uneasiness than joy to the Knight of the Swan.
1905 A. Castle & E. Castle French Nan xvii. 209 A chance rendezvous.
1976 Los Angeles Times 10 Sept. iii. 13/1 The prospect of an unexpected rendezvous with a bear is a clear and present danger in Yellowstone.
2005 Business World (Nexis) 1 Apr. 4 An unplanned rendezvous throws two people together with nothing specific to say to each other.
e. Astronautics. The prearranged meeting in space between two spacecraft or between a spacecraft and a celestial object; an instance of this.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > specific manoeuvres or operations
star tracking1947
rendezvous1951
probing1958
spin-stabilization1961
link-up1965
undocking1966
1951 A. C. Clarke Explor. of Space vi. 61 The ship may then return direct to an orbit around the Earth, or it may make a rendezvous, in an orbit round the Moon, with tankers sent from Earth.
1959 ARS Jrnl. Aug. 592/1 Many proposed space missions will require achieving rendezvous of two bodies in an orbit about a planet.
1969 Guardian 22 July 18/3 About ninety minutes after lift-off Eagle began the complex series of manoeuvres leading to rendezvous.
1987 G. DeWeese Chain of Attack vi. 72 ‘Rendezvous complete, Captain,’ Spock announced.
2003 M. J. L. Turner Exped. Mars viii. 280 We have introduced an Earth-orbit rendezvous into the mission..to enable the individual launcher payload to be halved.
a. A place of sanctuary or seclusion; a retreat, refuge; (in extended use) a source of assistance. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun]
wroa1300
recluse1474
reclusage1480
retreatc1500
retire1595
rendezvous1598
retirement1603
recess1611
shadea1616
Jericho1635
privacy1648
sequesterment1778
seclusion1791
retraite1814
backwater1820
hideaway1930
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 57 A randeuous, a home to flie vnto.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. i. 79 Newes haue I that my Doll is dead..and there my rendeuous is quite cut off. View more context for this quotation
1641 H. Thorndike Of 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.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. i. 3 I must make my Addresse to you, for I have no other Rendevous.
b. A last resort. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > that to which one has recourse > last resort
last resorta1586
rendezvous1600
pis aller1676
ultima ratio1848
long-stop1949
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 15 When I cannot liue any longer, Ile do as I may, And theres my rest, and the randeuous of it.
c. A store of provisions. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored
aumbry1356
promptuary?a1425
repository1485
staple1523
magazine1583
reposement1592
repertory1593
rendezvous1608
reserve1612
conservatory1624
reconditory1633
dormerc1640
stowagea1641
depositum1646
repositary1650
magazine storehousea1654
deposit1719
reservoir1739
battery1748
depository1750
storage1775
depot1795
depositary1797
repertorium1797
rua1831
stowaway1913
1608 J. Smith True Relation Occurr. Virginia sig. E2 16 daies provision we had..besides our randevous, we could and might haue hid in the ground.
a. A number of things brought together; a collection, an assemblage. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > gathering together > gathering or coming together
gatheringc900
convention1592
rendezvous1614
rendezvousing1653
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket ii. 65 Let not the great Thiefe thinke to scape; as hee is a Gallimaufrey of all sinnes, so he shall haue a Rendeuous of all punishments.
1652 J. Hall tr. Longinus Περι Ὑψους 22 It appears not a single passion, but a conflux and general rendezvouz of them all.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines 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.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) Introd. 6 The Ocean is a general Collection or Rendezvouz of all Waters.
b. A number of people brought together; a gathering, a group. Obsolete.
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1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. ii. 263 Here was a whole randezvouz of Cripples.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum 78 Here he commands a general Rendezvouz of all his Naval Forces.
1720 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft (ed. 2) ii. 43 She met a Rendesvouz of above Sixty Witches.
Phrases
to make rendezvous and variants.
a. To meet, or meet habitually, at a specified place.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > meet or assemble for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] > at appointed time or place
meetc1330
to make rendezvous1596
rendezvous1648
trysta1842
1596 Z. Jones tr. M. Barleti Hist. G. Castriot vi. 206 Al his soldiers and captains..should make their repair and rende vous at Andrinople.
1602 T. North tr. S. Goulart Lives Epaminondas, Philip of Macedon 36 To make their rende-vous with their armes at a day set downe at the towne of the Leontines.
1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. Z3 Timeseruers, who..make their Randevous[1632 Rendez-vows] always where the best cheere is stirring.
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare v. 38 The feminine and softer sex..keep there their Rendeuouz.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xiii. 268 The Tavern where we kept our Rendezvous. View more context for this quotation
1834 Visit to Texas xii. 111 Here the famous pirate Lafitte so long made his rendezvous.
1858 Christian Examiner Sept. 282 This year, the fleet made rendezvous in mid-ocean..and on the 26th of June separated and sailed, part westward and part eastward.
1870 Times 28 Jan. 10/5 Emperors and Kings make their rendezvous at them, and get into a bad state of health.
1940 A. G. Day Coronado's Quest i. 38 Coronado planned to make a circuit toward the north,..hoping there to make rendezvous with Fray Marcos.
1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 102 Various packers and horse wranglers, with their pack-trains, moved with the party or made rendezvous with them as the work demanded.
2007 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 16 Feb. a1 He made his rendezvous with the chaplain at a coffee shop in San Leandro.
b. In extended use, of things.
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?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. I4v Yet in my Sconce ó make your Rendeuous All words that may wing Praise with Angels Plumes.
1622 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 2nd Bk. iii. Hist. xv The Lake of Geneva..payes its full tribute, and make [s] its chiefest Rendezvous before that City.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 505 There is a certaine place of sea, where these destracted tydes make their rancountering Randeuouze.
a1788 W. Batty Messiah's Conquests ii, in Two Serm. (1792) 104 Merom's waters make their rendezvous, There to concert destruction on their foes.
1939 Amer. Builds (Public Wks. Admin.) xiii. 172 Los Angeles water must cross mountains and deserts for a distance of 250 Miles to make its rendezvous with the household faucets.
Compounds
General attributive, as rendezvous day, rendezvous place, rendezvous point, rendezvous room, etc.
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1556*Ranndevouse lres [see sense 1].
1646 R. Monro Let. 11 June in Lord Marques of Argyle's Speech to Grand Committee sig. B3 To certifie Colonell Monro of my Rendezvouz place at Glasloch.
1678 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 362 The said twenty sixth day to be a generall randevoys day of the haill twenty pund land betwixt sixty and sixtein with ther armes.
1787 A. Young Jrnl. 16 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 57 Music, chess, and the other common amusements of a rendezvouz-room.
1838 J. A. Thome & J. H. Kimball Emancipation W. Indies 270 It seemed to be a sort of rendezvous place, where..those returning from town, occasionally halt for a time for the purpose of resting.
1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 27 July By enlistment huts and rendezvous tents for the army and navy.
1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 140 Supplies were brought..to rendezvous points at prearranged times.
1963 E. Dick Tales of Frontier (1970) i. 48 When rendezvous-time rolled around they felt entitled to cut loose with a little celebrating.
2002 E. L. Haney Inside Delta Force (2003) 48 You will carry a prescribed load between designated rendezvous points.
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rendezvousv.
/ˈrɒndᵻvuː/, /ˈrɒndeɪvuː/, U.S. /ˈrɑndəˌvu/, /ˈrɑndeɪˌvu/ 1. † c. intransitive in same sense. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. Military. Of troops, vessels, etc.: to assemble at an appointed place. Also of a vessel, a company of troops, etc.: to meet with another at an appointed place.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (intransitive)] > assemble troops or fleet > of troops, etc.
rendezvous1645
1645 R. Josselin Diary 17 Sept. (1991) 47 Marchd out with a short breakfast, randevoud at Leicester.
1665 T. H. Exact Surv. Affaires Netherlands 74 2800 sail of ships Rendesvouzed in the Sea-towns of Holland.
1678 Hickes in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 46 Thereupon they resolved to rebel and in order thereto rendezvous this day in the Stewartry of Galloway.
1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) i. iii. 16 Spithead..is a Road where the Navy-Royal does frequently Rendevouz.
1723 J. Darby tr. S. Ali Hist. Timur-Bec I. i. xv. 76 The princes also resolv'd that they shou'd rendezvous with their troops at Isaac's well.
1780 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 250 Our new recruits will rendezvous in this State between the 10th and 25th instant.
1824 T. J. Rogers New Amer. Biogr. Dict. (ed. 3) 293 Captain Lacey's company was..directed to rendezvous with the other troops at Chester, on the river Delaware.
1858 Harper's Mag. Dec. 23/1 The whole having finally rendezvoused at King's Island, they found that altogether they had a fleet of ten vessels.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 260 You chaps can come out and sweep up the pieces, and we'll rendezvous at the head of the gorge.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xii. 183 The Grand Fleet was ordered to rendezvous in the ‘Long Forties’; the Battle Cruiser Fleet to join farther south.
1955 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 21 505 As a general practice the vessels rendezvoused at Hilton Head.
1980 Americas 37 86 The ship rendezvoused with de Grasse off the coast of Cuba.
1998 State (Nexis) 29 July While Army soldiers rendezvous in the winter darkness below, an armada of Air Force planes will arrive flying at low level.
b. transitive. Military. To bring together (troops, vessels, etc.) in a designated place. Now U.S.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > assemble (troops or ships)
rendezvous1647
1647 T. Fairfax Manifesto sig. A4v Warrants..to bring provisions from thence into the Army, which hee pretended to be Randevouzed between London and Uxbridge.
1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. iii. 184 Having Randevouz'd on the Bankes of the River Calpus thirty thousand Foot,..he order'd them to move.
1660 I. White Let. 12 May in T. Carte Coll. Orig. Lett. (1759) II. 341 There was a private rumour as if the Officers of the army had desired leave of the General to rendezvous themselves.
a1700 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. 179 Their Naval Strength o'er all their Ports diffus'd, They at a Day appointed rendezvous'd.
1780 T. Jefferson Let. 24 Dec. in Papers (1951) IV. 232 A powerful army..to be rendezvouzed at Pittsburg.
1867 E. Cust Lives Warriors I. i. 251 When the King rendezvoused his army, it appeared that..there were not above 3500 infantry left.
1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 404 Amherst..had rendezvoused at Oswego about eleven thousand men.
1974 E. T. Wilson Russia & Black Afr. ii. 78 Russian Admiral Rozhdestvensky was obliged to use the high seas..to rendezvous his squadrons.
2002 Roadside Hist. 163 Governor Isaac Shelby rendezvoused 4,000 Ky. troops here before his victory at the Thames, 1813.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (intransitive)] > assemble troops or fleet
rendezvous1650
1650 Man in Moon No. 53. 408 Fairfax Rendezvouseth about Coventry; Lieutenant Gen. Lesly hath as I hear agreed upon Articles with Montross.
1698 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus I. iii. xviii. 402 Cesar..rendevouz'd at Brundusium, he shipp'd off five of his twelve Legions, and sailed to Epirus.
1745 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 85 The Duke..will rendezvous at Stone.
2. † c. transitive (reflexive). = sense 2a. Obsolete.† f. intransitive. To band together to do something. Obsolete. rare.
a. intransitive. gen. To meet up at an appointed place; (also) to gather habitually at a certain place. Also with with.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > meet or assemble for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] > at appointed time or place
meetc1330
to make rendezvous1596
rendezvous1648
trysta1842
1648 Mercurius Aulicus 25 Jan.–3 Feb. 4 They in their moonefits at an Alehouse randevouse.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 13 Sept. (1972) VI. 222 Here we Rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's and there eat oysters.
1679 Established Test 25 In a place remote from his quarter, he rendevouzes with his fellow adventurers.
1760 E. Kimber tr. C. P. J. de Crébillon Happy Orphans (ed. 2) II. 98 They got acquainted at the Inn, where they rendezvoused.
1795 T. Mortimer Beawes's Lex Mercatoria Rediviva (ed. 6) II. 745 Among these foreign merchants who rendezvous at Cairo from all the inhabited places of Africa, there is above all two sorts.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. ix. 106 The Blue Posts, where we always rendezvoused, was hardly opened.
1864 J. O'Donovan Brief Acct. Author's Interview with Countrymen 60 In mossy dells where hermits love to pray, And wood-nymphs often rendezvous to play.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Treasure of Franchard vii, in Merry Men 285 The fugitives rendezvous'd in the arbour.
1914 Overland Monthly July 6 A number of pirates were known to rendezvous there.
1942 ‘Blake’ (title) We rendezvous at ten.
1970 Geogr. Jrnl. 136 51 The team had been motoring up stream for seven days to rendezvous with P Group.
2000 B. Napier Revelation xxiv. 204 I'll see you in three hours, then. We'll rendezvous at the Pizza Hut in Terminal One.
b. intransitive. Of two or more things: to come into contact with each other; to come together so as to occupy the same place, or follow the same line or course. Also (of a thing): to come into contact with another.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)]
musterc1560
amass1572
accumulate1613
piece1622
rally1647
rendezvous1662
herd1704
collect1794
congest1859
mass1861
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §17 Particles, which will..never rest till they come to that empty space, where they may again Rendezvous together.
1701 Phedon in M. Dacier Plato Abrig'd II. 169 All the Rivers rendezvous in this Abyss, and run out from thence again.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 21 They [sc. atoms] clash, and interrupt each other's Flight; And Rendezvousing with an adverse Course, Produce an equal Poise, by equal Force.
1855 New Monthly Mag. Jan. 114 Hurrah for the breezy, fresh Campagna,..where the Mediterranean gales rendezvous for sport.
1867 ‘T. Lackland’ Homespun i. 71 All hands rendezvous at the Bars, the larger waiting for the little ones.
1956 R. A. Heinlein in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 29/2 The Can Do—that's this bucket—is about to rendezvous with the..high-gee torchship.
2001 L. Pletcher Hiking New Hampsh. (ed. 2) 96 The route negotiates more than a mile of hilly terrain before it rendezvous with the northern end of the Five Summers (Pamac) Trail.
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1664 J. Tillotson Wisdom of being Religious 16 How the innumerabe blind parts of Matter should Rendezvous themselves into a World.
1684 T. Smith in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 443 The publick Coffee-houses..where the malecontents used to rendezvouz themselves.
1821 D. Carey Legend Argyle III. xviii. 252 The Commander immediately issued his orders for the soldiers..to rendezvous themselves at the entrance of the village.
d. transitive. gen. To bring together (people or animals) in a certain place; to collect, round up.In quot. 1670 figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)]
somnec825
heapc900
gathera975
samc1000
to set togetherc1275
fang1340
assemblec1374
recueilc1380
drawa1393
to draw togethera1398
semblea1400
congatherc1400
congregatec1400
to take together1490
recollect1513
to gather togetherc1515
to get together1523
congesta1552
confer1552
collect1573
ingatherc1575
ramass1586
upgather1590
to muster upa1593
accrue1594
musterc1595
compone1613
herd1615
contract1620
recoil1632
comporta1641
rally1643
rendezvous1670
purse1809
adduct1824
to round up1873
reeve1876
to pull together1925
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (reflexive)]
mass1563
rendezvous1670
congest1859
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 34 [He] minces the Text so small, that his Parishioners, until he rendevouz it again, can scarce tell what's become of it.
a1680 S. Charnock Several Disc. Existence of God (1682) 636 What Legions of Angels might he have Rendezvouz'd from Heaven.
1719 J. T. Philipps tr. B. Ziegenbalg Thirty-four Confer. 310 If all Men are to be rendevouz'd in a General Assembly to receive severally every one his Final Doom?
1872 Newton Kansan 26 Sept. 2/4 Thirty thousand head of cattle are rendezvoused in Coffeyville.
1892 Boston Jrnl. 28 July 8/1 It was announced gravely..that the detectives had been ‘rendez-voused’ at a certain place.
1912 Rep. Supreme Court S. Dakota 26 314 Where the owner of live stock..has established a ranch..at which the stock is ordinarily rendezvoused, it shall be listed and assessed.
1974 P. Steele Last Cherokee Warriors (1978) i. 17 In June, the first twenty-eight hundred were rendezvoused, divided into three detachments, and the long march begun.
e. intransitive. Of animals: to collect or gather together; to congregate in a certain place.
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1700 R. Blackmore Isaiah xxxiv, in Paraphr. Job 264 The Vultures there and all the Eagle Kind Shall rendezvous.
1771 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 95 They [sc. swallows and martins] rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut-tree.
1810 Sporting Mag. May 72/1 The mountainous breed of foxes, which descending into the vale of Mowbray rendezvoused at Sessay Wood, and rendered it so famous in the annals of the chase.
1847 J. T. Farnham Life & Adventures Calif. vi. 105 It is useful..as a place in which small fish may rendezvous.
1856 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) I. 709/1 That the herring do not rendezvous even in the deeper parts of our own seas.
1914 L. A. Crandall Days in Open 101 The Judge..knew every pool for ten miles around where the big trout rendezvous.
1964 Wilson Bull. 76 19 The males return to their former territories... They are visited there by the female and mating begins. The birds continue to rendezvous at these places until the eggs are laid.
2005 Illawarra (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 20 June 8 The non-native birds..rendezvous in their hundreds in trees along Crown St and Burelli St.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]
jousta1325
ally?a1400
joinc1400
associe1441
confederc1460
to stick together1525
band1530
to join forces1560
colleaguec1565
alliance1569
to enter league1578
unite1579
interleague1590
confederate1591
to join hands1598
combine1608
injointa1616
combinda1626
bandy1633
comply1646
federate1648
leaguea1649
associate1653
coalesce1657
to understand each other1663
sociate1688
to row in the same (also in one) boat1787
rendezvous1817
to make common cause (with)1845
to sing the same song1846
cahoot1857
to gang up1910
jungle1922
1817 M. Edgeworth Love & Law i. ii, in Comic Dramas 18 They have all rendezvous'd to drive me mad.
g. intransitive. Astronautics. Of a spacecraft or its crew: to effect a meeting in space with another spacecraft or with a celestial object.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [verb (intransitive)] > meet or join another spacecraft
dock1951
rendezvous1951
1951 R. A. Heinlein Between Planets vii. 83 A shuttle ship up from the surface could leave any spot on Venus, rendezvous with the ship in orbit, then land on its port of departure..having expended a theoretical minimum of fuel.
1966 Punch 12 Jan. 68/2 Under bright Uranus We'll rendezvous in space.
1969 Observer 20 July 7/2 Collins had a difficult time ‘space-walking’ to an Agena rocket with which they had rendezvoused.
1978 E. Burgess To Red Planet iv. 45/1 It would rendezvous with Mars and be placed in orbit around it.
1992 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) June 15/1 A mission to rendezvous with an asteroid, will start up in the mid-1990s.
2008 R. Miller Space Explor. iv. 52 To practice these techniques, Gemini spacecraft rendezvoused with each other, although the spacecraft were incapable of docking.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > as people > in crowds
bithringOE
enthrong1603
rendezvousa1661
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Mddx. 185 A Gentleman..was so Rendevouzed about with Beggers in London that it cost him all the money in his purse to satisfie their importunity.
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