incounter

Obsolete spelling of encounter.

Verb

  1. Obsolete spelling of encounter.
    • It fits Ioues ſonne / VVraſtle vvith Lyons, and to tugge vvith Beares, / Grapple vvith Dragons, and incounter VVhales. - 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Silver Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, and are to be sold by...
    • H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile. - 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of...

Forms

incounters incountering incountered