1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxix. f. xxxiv/1 Without any busynesse or reencounter [Fr. rencontre] we came to the captall.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 125/1 in Chron. I The Saxons hadde the victory in that reencounter.

1603 P. Holland tr. J. Amyot in tr. Plutarch Morals 443 So many pleasant speeches and lively reencounters.

1612 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 128 There were no personall reencounters, nor other triall of any ability, then running at the Quintain, and the Ring.

1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 32 After an obstinate conflict, and many reiterated controversial Reincounters with Amelius.

1744 E. F. Haywood Fortunate Foundlings xix. 260 [He] was ignorant in what manner this re-encounter ended.

1789 J. O'Keeffe Little Hunch-back i. i. 4 Your prowess in that re-encounter, when those villains attacked me the other night.

1857 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 21 Sept. 2/4 (headline) Fearful re-encounter with a bear.

1966 H. M. Hamill tr. M. Hidalgo & I. Allende Let. in Hidalgo Revolt vii. 203 Your Excellency should firmly believe that the first reencounter with Calleja will leave him defeated forever.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rancontro, a reincounter, a meeting againe.

1653 R. Mason in J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) Let. to Author sig. ***1 Their disasters & Eclyptick re-encounters, their respective powers, in all positions and Angles whatsoever, were the very recreations of his evincing Genius.

1683 London Bully 125 Fair Sophia come into the Room J was in. This unexpected re-incounter put me into such a Consternation, that J stood like a stock and motionless.

1743 W. Dorman Twelve Serm. vi. 138 What is a man's life, but a perpetual re-encounter with his principles?

1794 A. M. Bennett Ellen III. iv. 86 It was impossible but she must feel, at a re-encounter so unexpected a variety of sensations, both pleasing and painful.

1820 D. Darling Beaux without Belles iii. 18 This is the luckiest re-encounter—do you know that you happened to be the subject of conversation at our club last night?

1835 L. Osborn Confessions of Poet I. xxvi. 207 When I had recognised them I bent down my head not to betray the pleasure which I really felt at our re-encounter and resumed my occupation.

1884 Indiana Democrat 1 May 1/7 It is a re-encounter fraught with mortal horror to the Misses Blake. For years they have not so much as looked upon their enemy's face, and now their skirts have actually brushed him as he passed.

1904 Daily Chron. 28 July 8/5 If she is wise she will..avoid disenchanting re-encounters in the flesh.

1948 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Sept. 526/3 Mr. Sassoon..sets down his personal experience of the re-encounter.

1984 R. Binns Malcolm Lowry ii. 36 There are many subliminal suggestions that Hugh and Yvonne are rather enjoying their re-encounter.

2008 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Jan. (Review section) 17 Where you might hope for a deepening sense of its inner reality to emerge with each re-encounter..you get incantatory repetition instead.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cix^v/2 They..robbed all that countrey, for there was none that reencountred them [Fr. Si..roberent tout icelluy pays, Car nul nalloit au deuant].

1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) vii. i. 164/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The Danes..were reencountred..so often as they did encounter.

1600 Gowrie Conspir. C 2 His owne seruants..hauing put his maiestie in safetie, re-encountred the sayd Earle and his seruantes.

c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1714) 36 Both armies met again, and reincountered, between whom was begun a very bloody Battel.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. x. 58 The Pagans little suspecting to be re-incountred, gave themselves over to mirth and jollity.

1741 J. Seacome Memoirs 195 Streight to French Court, but meddle with him would none;..they beare Sir John Stanley Malice and Spyte But to Reincounter with him none had Delight.

1749 W. Biggs Mil. Hist. Europe 245 A timely Re-inforcement being sent from the Prussian Army, which the Austrians were not able to re-encounter.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rancontrare, to reincounter or meete againe.

1715 E. Barlow Meteorol. Ess. ii. v. 175 The opposite Floods grow sharpest, when they chance to re-encounter near it.

1788 Monthly Rev. 79 518 It required no small share of resolution to re-encounter those difficulties.

1867 Catholic World Apr. 48 Walter..preferred to live henceforth as the servant of the church, than to re-encounter the perils of the world by claiming his inheritance.

1884 Mind 9 369 Promptly it is ready again as an identical being..to re-encounter any fresh experiential incident that may accrue to it.

1925 Philos. Rev. 34 371 They serve to identify the particular referents in question, when we re-encounter them as their circumstantial selves.

1976 Amer. Speech 51 117 Following a subsequent move to Alberta..I reencountered the old problem.

1996 Jerusalem Post (Electronic ed.) 26 Dec. 3 Her experience of being deserted by Amos..and of reencountering Amos on his return.

2008 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 2 Feb. (A2 section) 25 Michael Berg's love affair with a streetcar conductor.., whom he re-encounters years later in a courtroom where she's being tried for war crimes.