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Encounter
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.
EncounterEncounter 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
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Syn: Contest; conflict; fight; combat; assault; rencounter;
attack; engagement; onset. See Contest. EncounterEncounter 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.
Meaning of Encounters from wikipedia
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British sci-fi film
Encounters, a
section of the
Berlin International Film
Festival Encounters (film), a 1993
Australian thriller Encounter: The Killing, a...
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encounter with an
unidentified flying object; and of Jillian, a
single mother whose three-year-old son was also
abducted by a UFO.
Close Encounters was...
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Completion of "Grave
Encounters 3" Script".
Horror Society.
Retrieved June 23, 2021.
Official website Grave Encounters at
AllMovie Grave Encounters at IMDb Grave...
- Ambrosetti, 1978
Close Encounters (Teddy
Edwards and
Houston Person album), 1999
Close Encounters (Gene Page album), 1978 "Close
Encounters", an
episode of Naked...
- sub-classified as
various types of
close encounters.
Hynek and
others argued that a
claimed close encounter must
occur within about 150
meters (500 ft)...
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Random Encounters (UK
title A
Random Encounter) is a 2013
American romantic-comedy film
directed by
Boris Undorf,
written by Nate
Barlow and starring...
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Vicious Brothers. The
sequel to
Grave Encounters, the film
follows a
group of
devoted fans of
Grave Encounters who
break into the same
psychiatric hospital...
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Encounters with the
Archdruid (1971) is a
narrative nonfiction book by
author John McPhee.
Encounters is
split into
three parts, each
covering environmentalist...
- "An
Encounter" is a
short story by
James Joyce. It is
second in a
collection of Joyce's
short stories called Dubliners. In the story, two
young boys experience...
- A
random encounter is a
feature commonly used in
various role-playing
games whereby combat encounters with non-player
character (NPC)
enemies or other...
