rencontren.

Brit.

/rɛnˈkɒntə/, U.S.

/rɛnˈkɑn(t)ər/

Forms: 1500s 1800s renconter, 1600s rancontre, 1600s– rencontre; also Scottish pre-1700 rencontare, pre-1700 renconter, pre-1700 rencontre, pre-1700 1700s ranconter.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rencontre.

Etymology: < Middle French rencontre fight, combat, skirmish, especially when arising as a result of a chance encounter, attack (13th cent. in Old French), reply, response, chance, chance occurrence (all 14th cent.), meeting, chance meeting or encounter with someone or something (15th cent.), unpremeditated duel (c1660), (in heraldry) representation of the face of a quadruped (1671) < rencontrer rencontre v. Compare earlier rencounter n., re-encounter n. N.E.D. (1906) gives also the non-naturalized pronunciation (raṅkoṅtr') /rɑ̃kɔ̃tr/.

I. An encounter.

†1. A subsequent or renewed encounter. Cf. re-encounter n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 11 Nov. (1933) 184 Thiese Almaignes, as a yerely rencontre of the gret fayling the last yere, wherof the French men take boldnesse.

a. = rencounter n. 1a. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun]

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a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 7 In that rencontare was the Erle of Sudderland foirsaid schote in the arme.

?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 239 A ruide rencontre [v.r. recounter] then thay maide, together galleys clipt.

1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. A5 The clashing of your Armor terrible as thunder, your Victories alway as sure as the Rancontre.

1688 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 154 Then had happened a rencontre betwixt a party of his Majesty's Army and that of the Prince of Orange.

1778 Addr. to Lords of Admiralty on Admiral Keppel 25 It is however certain, that the French, satisfied with their having lost no honour on the 27th of July, have carefully avoided any farther rencontre in the course of the summer; and that our fleet has as industriously sought for it.

1803 Marquess Wellesley Let. 23 Dec. in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 609 I have not yet discovered whether the battle was occasioned..by an accidental rencontre of the armies before the truce had commenced.

1824 B. Silliman Remarks Tour Hartford & Quebec (ed. 2) 157 (note) Lord Howe..was killed near Ticonderoga..in a renconter the day preceding the..assault.

1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom vi. 91 I had, of course, heard of whippings, and of savage rencontres between overseers and slaves, but I had always been out of the way at the times and places of their occurrence.

1862 W. R. Scurry in G. Noy Distant Horizon x. iv. 384 A pause was made to reunite our forces, which had become somewhat scattered in the last rencontre.

1914 W. Krueger tr. W. Balck Tactics II. 409 In a rencontre in which a route column deploys against an enemy who is still in the act of advancing, the advance guard is to gain time for the deployment of its main body.

b. = rencounter n. 1c. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition

match1531

goala1555

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drop-vie1598

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bet1843

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comp1929

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1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Feb. (1974) VIII. 72 He was mighty witty; and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant rencontre I never heard.

1696 M. Pix Ibrahim iii. 21 Retire, and let this Rancontre never trouble your repose.

1771 D. Williams Philosopher II. sig. b3^v He has had some rencontres with your Lordship, to which I have been a witness.

1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) 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.

1902 E. P. Oppenheim Traitors (1903) xlii. 280 Mr. Brand imagines perhaps that I bear him some ill-will for that previous little rencontre between us.

c. = rencounter n. 1b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel

handplayeOE

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field meeting1603

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judicial combat1610

fight of stand?1611

stand-fight?1611

business1612

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single combat1625

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duelliona1637

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affair of honour1737

meeting1813

holmgang1847

mensur1848

duomachy1885

a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 13 That ranconter that happened betuixt him and Sandwichs..sone.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 125/2 A rencontre has just happened..between the Marquis de Fleury..and an officer... They fought with pistols.

1781 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 7) III. xxviii. 293 I referred to my known resolution of long standing, to avoid a meditated rencontre [1753 rencounter] with any man.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. iii. 70 Perhaps there mingled with his resolution a secret belief that such a rencontre would not prove fatal.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lv. 500 The secret of the rencontre between him and Colonel Crawley was buried in the profoundest oblivion.

1904 J. H. Claiborne 75 Years in Old Virginia iv. 216 Maj. Hankins..lived through the war to be killed soon after its close in a personal rencontre in Surry county.

a. = rencounter n. 2b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > encounter

counterc1330

coming ina1398

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re-encounter1525

re-encountry1569

rencontre1586

occurrent1592

risconter1592

rencounter1632

1586–7 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1915) IX. 265 My first and last ranconter wit ȝowir honour.

1619 in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 95 The nice termes his Ma^ty standeth in with the French King..makes it necessary to acquaint you with a rencontre I had at Antwerp.

1637 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 250 Ane rencontre of tuo extremities, extrem greif..and extream joie.

1697 in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. V. 282 I lately had an accidental rencontre..with Mr. Johnston, late secretary.

1788 F. Burney Diary 1 Aug. (1842) IV. 214 One of the letters..was written just after I had communicated to her my singular rencontre with this lady.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 165 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.

1991 N. Kenny Palace of Secrets iii. 107 Some of these rencontres are between two objects, whether paint and canvas or else light and glass.

b. An organized but informal meeting of academics, research workers, etc., to exchange ideas or information, esp. in scientific topics.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of

morn-speechOE

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collegea1703

annual general meeting1725

mass meeting1733

panegyre1757

plenum1772

family council1797

coterie1805

Round Table1830

GA1844

indignation meeting1848

protest meeting1852

hui1858

primary1859

Quaker meeting1861

mothers' meeting1865

sit-down1868

town hall1912

jamboree1919

protest rally1921

con1940

face-to-face1960

morning prayers1961

struggle meeting1966

be-in1967

love-in1967

plenary1969

catch-up1972

rencontre1975

schmoozefest1976

1975 Chem. in Brit. 11 145/1 One approach is to organize small informal meetings—rencontres—at which chemists can meet, be educated by (and educate) representatives from the other sciences.

2004 Higher Mag. (Univ. London) Spring–Summer 15/2 A series of study days, rencontres and social events will serve as a means of showcasing Royal Holloway's various academic disciplines.

†4. = rencounter n. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant experience

rencounter1589

rencontre1661

rub1733

dose1847

cold shower1875

murder1878

bummer1967

1661 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1970) II. 91 Having this day not other extraordinary rancontre but my hat falling off of my head at Newington into the water.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 476 The affaires of war: wherein oft the most inconsiderable rencontres or occurrences produce the greatest changements.

1770 H. St. John in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his 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. Technical uses.

5. Rhetoric. = antithesis n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > antithesis

rencontre1589

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 175 (margin) Antitheton, or..the renconter [Ye haue another figure..which..we may call the encounter].

6. Heraldry. = rencounter n. 5. Obsolete. rare.Apparently never part of English heraldic terminology.

ΚΠ

1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) 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.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rencounter, or Rencontre, in Heraldry, is applied to Animals when they shew the Head in Front, with both Eyes, &c.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† rencontrev.

Forms: late Middle English 1600s 1800s rencontre, 1500s–1600s ranconter, 1600s rancontre, 1700s renconter; Scottish pre-1700 ranconter, pre-1700 rancontre, pre-1700 rencontre.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rencontrer.

Etymology: < Middle French rencontrer to fight against, encounter in battle (12th cent. in Old French), to meet by chance (13th cent.) < re- re- prefix + encontrer encounter v. Compare later rencounter v. and re-encounter v., and also rencontre n.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To fight against or challenge (a person). Also: to argue with.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > contend with

acounterc1330

bargainc1375

battlec1399

rencontre1455

field1529

pallc1540

cope with1582

combata1592

to grapple witha1616

to give against ——1646

fight1697

contest1764

1455 W. Bonville Let. 22 Nov. in M. A. Hicks Richard III & his Rivals (1991) ii. 48 For the dwelleres of this shire ful redy to rencontre the & topteyne or dye.

c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 78 Thair wes greit alturnementis and justinge in Edinburch be ane quha callit himself the wyld knycht and ranconterit be the Frensche men.

1599 tr. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 195 To impeach him, and to ranconter his force he appointed this fleet.

1677 J. Brown Christ the Way To Rdr. sig. D10^v Nor think that our learning and knowledge in the Theory of the Truth; nor our Abilities to rancontre Sophisters, will secure us from a fall.

2. transitive. = rencounter v. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience

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findeOE

meetOE

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to fall with ——?c1475

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to fall on ——1533

to fall upon ——1533

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to fall in1675

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to come across ——1738

to cross upon (or on)1748

to fall across ——1760

experience1786

to drop in1802

encounter1814

to come upon ——1820

to run against ——1821

to come in contact with1862

to run across ——1864

to knock or run up against1886

to knock up against1887

1582 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1910) VI. 124 [The duke is not in good health to] Ranconter [or meet the king].

c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 155 Gif thow rencontre sic a chanse.

1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 67 I was stoped be the manie disorders and deficulties that I rencontred at my first comming.

?1780 tr. Mouchet Hist. Dict. Love I. 180 The young Count de Comminges was furnished with these papers,..when he rencontered Madamoiselle de Luffan.

1803 Monthly Mag. Oct. 221/1 After some ineffectual efforts to procure a direction to some merchants for whom I had letters of introduction, or to the Kaiser's Hof, the hotel at which I intended to fix my quarters, I casually rencontred an English acquaintance.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	rencontre
释义	rencontren. Brit. /rɛnˈkɒntə/, U.S. /rɛnˈkɑn(t)ər/ Forms: 1500s 1800s renconter, 1600s rancontre, 1600s– rencontre; also Scottish pre-1700 rencontare, pre-1700 renconter, pre-1700 rencontre, pre-1700 1700s ranconter. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rencontre. Etymology: < Middle French rencontre fight, combat, skirmish, especially when arising as a result of a chance encounter, attack (13th cent. in Old French), reply, response, chance, chance occurrence (all 14th cent.), meeting, chance meeting or encounter with someone or something (15th cent.), unpremeditated duel (c1660), (in heraldry) representation of the face of a quadruped (1671) < rencontrer rencontre v. Compare earlier rencounter n., re-encounter n. N.E.D. (1906) gives also the non-naturalized pronunciation (raṅkoṅtr') /rɑ̃kɔ̃tr/. I. An encounter. †1. A subsequent or renewed encounter. Cf. re-encounter n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 11 Nov. (1933) 184 Thiese Almaignes, as a yerely rencontre of the gret fayling the last yere, wherof the French men take boldnesse. 2. a. = rencounter n. 1a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] fightc893 coursec1325 stourc1325 acounterc1330 meetingc1330 setc1330 showera1375 brusha1400 semblya1400 hosting1422 poynyec1425 conflictc1440 militancea1460 grate1460 rencounter1471 chaplea1500 flitea1513 concourse?1520 concursion1533 rescounter1543 spurnc1560 rencontrea1572 discourse1573 action1579 combat1582 opposition1598 do1915 a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1848) II. 7 In that rencontare was the Erle of Sudderland foirsaid schote in the arme. ?a1591 King James VI & I Poems (1955) I. 239 A ruide rencontre [v.r. recounter] then thay maide, together galleys clipt. 1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. A5 The clashing of your Armor terrible as thunder, your Victories alway as sure as the Rancontre. 1688 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 154 Then had happened a rencontre betwixt a party of his Majesty's Army and that of the Prince of Orange. 1778 Addr. to Lords of Admiralty on Admiral Keppel 25 It is however certain, that the French, satisfied with their having lost no honour on the 27th of July, have carefully avoided any farther rencontre in the course of the summer; and that our fleet has as industriously sought for it. 1803 Marquess Wellesley Let. 23 Dec. in Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 609 I have not yet discovered whether the battle was occasioned..by an accidental rencontre of the armies before the truce had commenced. 1824 B. Silliman Remarks Tour Hartford & Quebec (ed. 2) 157 (note) Lord Howe..was killed near Ticonderoga..in a renconter the day preceding the..assault. 1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & my Freedom vi. 91 I had, of course, heard of whippings, and of savage rencontres between overseers and slaves, but I had always been out of the way at the times and places of their occurrence. 1862 W. R. Scurry in G. Noy Distant Horizon x. iv. 384 A pause was made to reunite our forces, which had become somewhat scattered in the last rencontre. 1914 W. Krueger tr. W. Balck Tactics II. 409 In a rencontre in which a route column deploys against an enemy who is still in the act of advancing, the advance guard is to gain time for the deployment of its main body. b. = rencounter n. 1c. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition match1531 goala1555 vie1568 skirmish1576 rencounter1594 drop-vie1598 duellism1602 duello1606 bout1609 duel1613 competition1618 matcha1637 tournament1638 contest1648 rencontre1667 pingle?1719 sprawla1813 go1823 bet1843 bucklea1849 comp1929 cook-off1936 title race1948 1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Feb. (1974) VIII. 72 He was mighty witty; and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant rencontre I never heard. 1696 M. Pix Ibrahim iii. 21 Retire, and let this Rancontre never trouble your repose. 1771 D. Williams Philosopher II. sig. b3^v He has had some rencontres with your Lordship, to which I have been a witness. 1874 J. C. Geikie Life in Woods (ed. 2) 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. 1902 E. P. Oppenheim Traitors (1903) xlii. 280 Mr. Brand imagines perhaps that I bear him some ill-will for that previous little rencontre between us. c. = rencounter n. 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 13 That ranconter that happened betuixt him and Sandwichs..sone. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 125/2 A rencontre has just happened..between the Marquis de Fleury..and an officer... They fought with pistols. 1781 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 7) III. xxviii. 293 I referred to my known resolution of long standing, to avoid a meditated rencontre [1753 rencounter] with any man. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. iii. 70 Perhaps there mingled with his resolution a secret belief that such a rencontre would not prove fatal. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lv. 500 The secret of the rencontre between him and Colonel Crawley was buried in the profoundest oblivion. 1904 J. H. Claiborne 75 Years in Old Virginia iv. 216 Maj. Hankins..lived through the war to be killed soon after its close in a personal rencontre in Surry county. 3. a. = rencounter n. 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > encounter counterc1330 coming ina1398 recountera1470 re-encounter1525 re-encountry1569 rencontre1586 occurrent1592 risconter1592 rencounter1632 1586–7 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1915) IX. 265 My first and last ranconter wit ȝowir honour. 1619 in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 95 The nice termes his Ma^ty standeth in with the French King..makes it necessary to acquaint you with a rencontre I had at Antwerp. 1637 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 250 Ane rencontre of tuo extremities, extrem greif..and extream joie. 1697 in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. V. 282 I lately had an accidental rencontre..with Mr. Johnston, late secretary. 1788 F. Burney Diary 1 Aug. (1842) IV. 214 One of the letters..was written just after I had communicated to her my singular rencontre with this lady. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 165 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. 1991 N. Kenny Palace of Secrets iii. 107 Some of these rencontres are between two objects, whether paint and canvas or else light and glass. b. An organized but informal meeting of academics, research workers, etc., to exchange ideas or information, esp. in scientific topics. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of morn-speechOE court1154 morrow-speech1183 conventicle1382 congregation1389 plenary session1483 journeyc1500 night school1529 assession1560 general meeting1565 family meeting1638 panegyris1647 desk1691 collegea1703 annual general meeting1725 mass meeting1733 panegyre1757 plenum1772 family council1797 coterie1805 Round Table1830 GA1844 indignation meeting1848 protest meeting1852 hui1858 primary1859 Quaker meeting1861 mothers' meeting1865 sit-down1868 town hall1912 jamboree1919 protest rally1921 con1940 face-to-face1960 morning prayers1961 struggle meeting1966 be-in1967 love-in1967 plenary1969 catch-up1972 rencontre1975 schmoozefest1976 1975 Chem. in Brit. 11 145/1 One approach is to organize small informal meetings—rencontres—at which chemists can meet, be educated by (and educate) representatives from the other sciences. 2004 Higher Mag. (Univ. London) Spring–Summer 15/2 A series of study days, rencontres and social events will serve as a means of showcasing Royal Holloway's various academic disciplines. †4. = rencounter n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness > unpleasant experience rencounter1589 rencontre1661 rub1733 dose1847 cold shower1875 murder1878 bummer1967 1661 S. Pepys Diary 30 Apr. (1970) II. 91 Having this day not other extraordinary rancontre but my hat falling off of my head at Newington into the water. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 476 The affaires of war: wherein oft the most inconsiderable rencontres or occurrences produce the greatest changements. 1770 H. St. John in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his 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. Technical uses. 5. Rhetoric. = antithesis n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > antithesis rencontre1589 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 175 (margin) Antitheton, or..the renconter [Ye haue another figure..which..we may call the encounter]. 6. Heraldry. = rencounter n. 5. Obsolete. rare.Apparently never part of English heraldic terminology. ΚΠ 1725 J. Coats New Dict. Heraldry (rev. ed.) 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. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Rencounter, or Rencontre, in Heraldry, is applied to Animals when they shew the Head in Front, with both Eyes, &c. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † rencontrev. Forms: late Middle English 1600s 1800s rencontre, 1500s–1600s ranconter, 1600s rancontre, 1700s renconter; Scottish pre-1700 ranconter, pre-1700 rancontre, pre-1700 rencontre. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rencontrer. Etymology: < Middle French rencontrer to fight against, encounter in battle (12th cent. in Old French), to meet by chance (13th cent.) < re- re- prefix + encontrer encounter v. Compare later rencounter v. and re-encounter v., and also rencontre n. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To fight against or challenge (a person). Also: to argue with. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > contend with acounterc1330 bargainc1375 battlec1399 rencontre1455 field1529 pallc1540 cope with1582 combata1592 to grapple witha1616 to give against ——1646 fight1697 contest1764 1455 W. Bonville Let. 22 Nov. in M. A. Hicks Richard III & his Rivals (1991) ii. 48 For the dwelleres of this shire ful redy to rencontre the & topteyne or dye. c1570 J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1830) 78 Thair wes greit alturnementis and justinge in Edinburch be ane quha callit himself the wyld knycht and ranconterit be the Frensche men. 1599 tr. in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 195 To impeach him, and to ranconter his force he appointed this fleet. 1677 J. Brown Christ the Way To Rdr. sig. D10^v Nor think that our learning and knowledge in the Theory of the Truth; nor our Abilities to rancontre Sophisters, will secure us from a fall. 2. transitive. = rencounter v. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience ymetec893 findeOE meetOE counterc1325 overtakec1390 limp?a1400 tidea1400 runa1450 to fall with ——?c1475 onlightc1475 recounterc1485 recount1490 to come in witha1500 occur1531 to fall on ——1533 to fall upon ——1533 beshine1574 rencontre1582 entertain1591 cope with1594 happen1594 tocome1596 incur1599 forgather1600 thwart1601 to fall in1675 cross1684 to come across ——1738 to cross upon (or on)1748 to fall across ——1760 experience1786 to drop in1802 encounter1814 to come upon ——1820 to run against ——1821 to come in contact with1862 to run across ——1864 to knock or run up against1886 to knock up against1887 1582 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1910) VI. 124 [The duke is not in good health to] Ranconter [or meet the king]. c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 155 Gif thow rencontre sic a chanse. 1654 E. Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 67 I was stoped be the manie disorders and deficulties that I rencontred at my first comming. ?1780 tr. Mouchet Hist. Dict. Love I. 180 The young Count de Comminges was furnished with these papers,..when he rencontered Madamoiselle de Luffan. 1803 Monthly Mag. Oct. 221/1 After some ineffectual efforts to procure a direction to some merchants for whom I had letters of introduction, or to the Kaiser's Hof, the hotel at which I intended to fix my quarters, I casually rencontred an English acquaintance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1545v.1455
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