accost

You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.

Him, Satan thus accosts.

For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost

Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.

Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."