Word Meanings - RENCOUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter. 2. To attack hand to hand. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to RENCOUNTER)

• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• ATTACK
  1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism
• ATTACKABLE
  Capable of being attacked.
• ENCOUNTER
  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
• ATTACKER
  One who attacks.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• RENCOUNTER
  1. To meet unexpectedly; to encounter. 2. To attack hand to hand. Spenser.