rencounter

From Old (and modern) French rencontrer (verb), rencontre (noun), corresponding to re- + Old French encontrer ‘encounter’.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛnˈkaʊntə/

rencounter (third-person singular simple present rencounters, present participle rencountering, simple past and past participle rencountered)

1. (archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with.
2. To attack hand to hand.

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rencounter (plural rencounters)

1. (archaic) An encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     Mr Nightingale promised to enquire into the state of Mr Fitzpatrick's wound, and likewise to find out some of the persons who were present at the rencounter.

2. (archaic) An encounter or chance meeting.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     The Prior at length […] rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter.