incounter

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A form of encounter — To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.

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Meanings

verbincounter (third-person singular simple present incounters, present participle incountering, simple past and past participle incountered)

present singular third person incounters · participle present incountering · participle past incountered · past incountered

  1. obsoleteObsolete 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 Beniamin Lightfoote […], →OCLC, Act III, signature G, recto
    1 more example

    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 Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 28

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APA

incounter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incounter

MLA

“incounter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incounter. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incounter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incounter.

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