encountering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of encounter

noun

1. An encounter; a meeting.

   “This is still a species of reflection because it thematizes encounterings and things-as-encountered, even if they do not occur in the mental life of the person reflectively observing them.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Fit for an encounter or battle.

   “Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes, And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe, In loue of honor and defence of right Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe, Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.”