overfronted

Verb

overfront (third-person singular simple present overfronts, present participle overfronting, simple past and past participle overfronted)

1. (obsolete) To confront; to oppose; to withstand.
   • Doubling of the Reere, your battaile will be both lengthened and strengthned , And so by the sudden bringing of these Supplies into the reere, you may not only relieve your owne, but happily overfront your enemy.1643, William Barriffe, Military Discipline: or the Yong Artillery Man, page 72

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