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Definition of Encountered
1. encounter [v] - See also: encounter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encountered
Literary usage of Encountered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1899)
"And then came in Sir Palamides out of the castle, and there encountered with him
Gawaine, and either of them smote other so hard that both the good knights ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"As a youth he had very advanced political opinions, VOL. but unpleasant personal
relations with the ardent reformers whom he encountered transformed him ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1915)
"The use of copper of extreme thinness was found necessary, owing to the difficulty
encountered when us.n? thick copper of a slow rate of reduction of the ..."
4. Bulletin of the Iowa Engineering Experiment Station by Iowa Engineering Experiment Station (1905)
"required by the character of the material encountered. One type appears in Fig.
2, and another type is shown more plainly in Fig. 3 herewith. Flo. ..."
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