[f. ENCOUNTER v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ENCOUNTER.
1485. Caxton, Trevisa’s Higden, III. vi. 162 a. In the enencountrynge & fightynge Brutus … and Aruns … slowgh eyther other.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xlviii. 69. And dyuers encountrynges was bytwene them.
1581. Apol. Pr. Orange, in Phenix (1721), I. 450. That the Race of [a man’s] life be … prosperous without … any wicked incountring.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, II. v. 50. By reason of the opposition and encountring of some other current.
1623. Drumm. of Hawth., Cypress Grove, Wks. (1711), 126. As if they were so many Shadows cast out and caused by the encountring of these Superiour Celestial Bodies.
1704. Swift, T. Tub, Author’s Apol., The accidental encountering of a single thought.
