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▪ I. rencontre, n.|rɛnˈkɒntə(r), F. rɑ̃kɔ̃tr|
Also 8 -countre, 9 -conter.
[a. F. rencontre (13th c.), vbl. n. f. rencontrer: see next and cf. rencounter n.
The form is given by Blount (1656, etc., copying Cotgrave), but later Dictionaries down to the Webster of 1864 recognize only rencounter.]
1. a. = rencounter n. 3.
1619in Eng. & Germ. (Camden) 95 The nice termes his Maty standeth in with the French King..makes it necessary to acquaint you with a rencontre I had at Antwerp. 1705Vanbrugh Country House i. iv, Baron. We have not seen one another since we were schoolfellows before. Marquis. The happiest rencontre! 1788F. Burney Diary 2 Aug., One of the letters..was written just after I had communicated to her my singular rencontre with this lady. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 82 The accidental rencontre of a vessel homeward bound awakens family recollections. 1884‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 117 The rencontre was disagreeable, and, to shorten it as much as possible, Isabel..turned back.
b. Her. (See quots.)
The existence of the use in Eng. is doubtful; quot. 1727–38 is ultimately derived from the Dict. Universel of Furetière (1690).
1725Coats Dict. Her., Rencontre, or au Rencontre, is a French Phrase signifying, that the Face of a Beast stands right forward, as if it came to meet the Person before it. 1727–38Chambers Cycl., Rencountre or rencontre, in heraldry is applied to animals when they show the head in front, with both eyes, etc. Ibid., He bears sable, in rencountre, a golden fleece.
c. An organized but informal meeting of scientists.
1975Chem. in Brit. XI. 145/1 One approach is to organize small informal meetings—rencontres—at which chemists can meet, be educated by (and educate) representatives from the other sciences. 1975Physics Bull. Dec. 515/3 A few months ago the SRC organized a rencontre in Aberdeen on ‘Combinatorics’ which was a get-together for mathematicians, physicists and chemists. 1977Chem. in Brit. XIII. 105 Theoretical research horizons in colloid science formed the theme of a recent rencontre sponsored by the Science Research Council.
2. a. = rencounter n. 1.
1688in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 154 Then had happened a rencontre betwixt a party of his Majesty's Army and that of the Prince of Orange. 1803Mrq. Wellesley in Gurw. Wellington's Desp. (1838) II. 609 note, I have not yet discovered whether the battle was occasioned..by an accidental rencontre of the armies before the truce had commenced. 1824Silliman Tour fr. Hartford to Quebec (ed. 2) 157 note, Lord Howe..was killed near Ticonderoga..in a renconter the day preceding the..assault.
b. = rencounter n. 1 b.
1754Richardson Grandison (1781) III. xxviii. 293, I referred to my known resolution of long standing, to avoid a meditated rencontre with any man. 1772Chron. in Ann. Reg. 125/2 A rencontre has just happened..between the Marquis de Fleury..and an officer... They fought with pistols. 1826Scott Woodst. xxvii, Perhaps there mingled with his resolution a secret belief that such a rencontre would not prove fatal. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lv, The secret of the rencontre between him and Colonel Crawley was buried in the profoundest oblivion.
c. = rencounter n. 1 c.
1666–7Pepys Diary 18 Feb., He was mighty witty, and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant rencontre I never heard. 1874C. Geikie Life in Woods xxi, I was very much amused at a rencontre between the ‘captain’..and one of the passengers, who..had come on board without having money to pay his fare.
3. = rencounter n. 2. ? Obs.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. ii. ix. I. 476 The affaires of war: wherein oft the most inconsiderable rencontres or occurrences produce the greatest changements. 1770in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) III. 3 By the..despair and misery which the poor waggoner testified on this unlucky rencontre, I guessed we had done some great mischief.
▪ II. † renˈcontre, v. Obs. rare.
Also 7 -ter.
[ad. F. rencontrer: see rencounter v.]
trans. a. To encounter, to meet with. b. To oppose, reverse.
1654Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 67, I was stoped be the manie disorders and deficulties that I rencontred at my first comming. 1689Hickeringill Ceremony-Monger v. Wks. 1716 II. 427 To Ranconter and Ruffle the whole course of Nature, and make Heaven a Pair of Stairs to Hell. |