[f. prec.] trans. To call applaudingly for the repetition of (a song, etc.); to demand a repetition from (a performer).
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), III. 341. They encored it. Ibid. (1754), Grandison (1781), VI. xxxi. 204. The wretches … encored him [Sir Charles] without mercy.
1826. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 268. I got a part of the audience … to encore my swoon.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., iv. 98. The idea of a man pluming himself on the possibility of being encored in a roar.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, xiii. 182. Lines … reflecting on Pompey … were encored a thousand times.
b. transf. To go over again (nonce-use).
1806. J. Beresford, Miseries (ed. 5), I. 24. Till you are … necessitated to turn back, and encore all your sufferings.
