▪ I. re-enˈcounter, n.
Also 6–7 rein-, re-in-.
[f. re- + encounter n.; cf. rencontre n., rencounter n.]
† a. A meeting, encounter, esp. a hostile one. Obs. b. A renewed meeting.
| 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxix. 34/1 Without any busynesse or reencounter we came to the captall. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 85/2 The Saxons had the victorie in that reincounter. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 443 So many pleasant speeches and lively reencounters. 1611 Florio, Rancontro, a reincounter, a meeting againe. 1666 S. Parker Free & Impart. Censure (1667) 32 After many reiterated controversial Re-incounters with Aurelius. 1737 L. Clarke Hist. Bible (1740) I. i. 68 This Re-encounter had not a little ruffled Jacob's mild disposition. 1794 Godwin Cal. Williams 77 Mr. Falkland's servants, hearing the bustle of the re-encounter [etc.]. 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. 1974 Frith & McLauchlan in R. K. Harris Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Chem. Soc. Specialist Periodical Rep.) III. xii. 387 This..broadens our definition of cage recombination to include reaction of the original partners in the radical pair on re⁓encounter after their initial diffusive separation. |
▪ II. re-enˈcounter, v.
Also 6–7 re-in-.
[f. re- + encounter v.; cf. rencontre v., rencounter v.]
† a. To encounter, esp. in a hostile manner. Obs. b. To encounter or meet again.
| 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxiv. 267 They..robbed all that countrey, for there was none that reencountred them. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 164/2 Bicause the Danes..were reencountred..so often as they did encounter [etc.]. 1600 Gowrie Conspir. C 2, His owne seruants..hauing put his maiestie in safetie, re-encountred the sayd Earle and his seruantes. 1611 Florio, Rancontrare, to reincounter or meete againe. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §65 (1810) 63 Both armies met again, and re-encountered. 1639 Fuller Holy War ii. x. (1840) 63 The Pagans, little suspecting to be reencountered, gave themselves over to mirth and jollity. |