reconnaître

present singular third person reconnaîtres · participle present reconnaîtring · participle past reconnaîtred · past reconnaîtred

1. rareRare form of reconnoitre.

   To reconnaître the enemy’s camp.

   1887, Edward R. Bensley, A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Paris: Garnier Brothers, […], page 98, column 3

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   An officer sent forward to reconnaître, returned with the intelligence that they were British troops, for he had seen their red uniforms.

   1841, [Charles Lever], Charles O’Malley, the Irish Dragoon, volume II, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; Edinburgh: Fraser and Company; London: W. S. Orr and Company, page 295

   His cavalry, whom he sent out to reconnaître close to Hawley’s camp, brought word that they could see no appearance of movement.

   1841, Lord Mahon [Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope], History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors; CCCXXVI), 3rd edition, volume II, Paris: Baudry’s European Library, page 245

   […] to reconnaître the sites where the clays are to be found, through their possible relation with bauxite sediments.

   1957, Conferência internacional dos Africanistas Ocidentais, C.C.T.A., page 213

   It is a well known fact that Lapps can fall into trances in order to reconnaître how things and human beings are in distant places.

   1984, Shamanism in Eurasia, part 2, →ISBN, page 394

   if it is true,...., that the orders contained information concerning certain positions from which the British warships might have been fired at, it cannot be deduced therefrom that the vessels had received orders to reconnaître Albanian coastal defences

   1994, Andrea De Guttry, Lo status della nave da guerra in tempo di pace, →ISBN, page 75