Hypertext Webster Gateway: "encounter"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Encounter \En*coun"ter\, v. i.
To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as
enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies
encountered at Waterloo.
I will encounter with Andronicus. --Shak.
Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation
of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with
particulars. --Tatham.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Encounter \En*coun"ter\, n. [OF. encontre, fr. encontrer. See
{Encounter}, v. t.]
1. A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or
incidental meeting; an interview.
To shun the encounter of the vulgar crowd. --Pope.
2. A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a
battle; as, a bloody encounter.
As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. --Spenser.
To join their dark encounter in mid-air. --Milton
.
Syn: Contest; conflict; fight; combat; assault; rencounter;
attack; engagement; onset. See {Contest}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Encounter \En*coun"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Encountered}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Encountering}.] [OF. encontrer; pref. en- (L.
in) + contre against, L. contra. See {Counter}, adv.]
To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by
chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in
opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict
with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend
in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter
obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a
truth.
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the
Stoics, encountered him. --Acts xvii.
18.
I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
encounter
n 1: a minor short-term fight [syn: {brush}, {clash}, {skirmish}]
2: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers
their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in
the hallway" [syn: {meeting}]
3: a casual meeting with a person of thing [syn: {coming upon}]
4: a hostile disagreement face-to-face [syn: {confrontation}, {showdown}]
v 1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How
nice to see you again!" [syn: {meet}, {ran into}, {run
across}, {come across}, {see}]
2: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book
in the bookstore the other day" [syn: {find}, {happen}, {chance},
{bump}]
3: be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial
difficulties" [syn: {run into}]
4: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much
opposition" [syn: {meet}, {receive}]
5: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle;
"Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to
play Mary" [syn: {meet}, {play}, {take on}]
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