Middle English Dictionary Entry
recǒuntren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | recǒuntren v. Also recountre, -tar, -tir. |
| Etymology | OF rencontrer |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. acountren v., encountren v.
1.
To encounter (an enemy or his force) in battle; also, meet (with sb.) in a hostile encounter, fight.
Associated quotations
- (1455) RParl.5.279a : It must hastely be purveid, that they [enemies] mowe..mightly..be recountred and resisted.
- (1461) RParl.5.463a : The which..joynyng youre moost noble persone to the seid defence and salvation..recountred the seid power of youre seid adversarye in..York.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)213/10 : Is there ony knyght, kyng..that dare..recountir with a knyght of the Rounde Table?
- (1474) Let.Christ Ch.in RS 85.3281 : The Kynge shall mowe acheve thentent of his conquest, without grete effusion of Christen blode, or any resistence able to recountre alle the seid puissances.
- a1605(c1471) Arriv.Edw.IV in Camd.1 (Hrl 543)24 : The Kynge lay so that..he nedes shuld nowe recountar them, or stope them, and put them bake.