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▪ I. countercheck, counter-check, n.|ˈkaʊntətʃɛk|
[counter- 3, 2.]
†1. A ‘check’, rebuke, or reproof in reply to or return for another. Obs.
1559Primer in Priv. Prayers (1851) 47, I became as a man not hearing, and having no counterchecks in his mouth. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. v. iv. 84 If againe, it was not well cut, he wold say, I lie: this is call'd the counter-checke quarrelsome. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Counter-check, a Censure made upon a Reprover.
2. A check that opposes or arrests the course of anything.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 224 Who painefully..Haue brought a counter-checke before your gates. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxvii. (1739) 168 These Inquests..soon met with a countercheck from the Law. 1749F. Smith Voy. Disc. N.W. Pass. II. 85 Suddenly there came a violent countercheck of Tide from the South West. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 212 The evil that we suffer is often a countercheck which restrains us from greater evil. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. vii, There is no counter-check to its emotions.
3. A check that operates against or controls a check.
1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 133 The checks and counter⁓checks which nature has appointed to preserve the balance of power amongst species. 1842Tennyson Two Voices 300 Many things perplex, With motions, checks, and counter⁓checks. 1892Standard 15 June 5/2 There ought to have been check and counter check, and the lâches even of a responsible person would have been atoned for by the vigilance of others.
▪ II. countercheck, v.|ˌkaʊntəˈtʃɛk|
Also counter-check, (7 conter-check).
[counter- 1.]
†1. trans. To ‘check’, rebuke, or reprove either in reply to a rebuke or taunt, or as an expression of opposition. Obs.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1296/1 Hymineus denieth his good will..notwithstanding Diana hath so counter-checked him therefore, as he shall hereafter be at your commandement. 1590Greene Never too late (1600) 66 Hee tooke the wall of the young noble man, which Seruilius taking in disdain, countercheckt with this frump. 1598[see counterchecking below].
2. To check or arrest by counteraction.
1590Lodge Euphues Gold. Leg. Ded., Every humorous passion countercheckt with a storme. 1598J. Dickenson Green in Conc. (1878) 105 The course of a strong currant, counterchekt by a barre of earth. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. x. i. 15 His Maiesty..with his owne hand wrote to counter-checke his former Warrant. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Cypress Grove Wks. (1711) 122 As if there were a secret opposition in fate..to..conter-check all our devices and proposals. 1861Gresley Sophron & N. 357 All the tendencies of her condition are checked and counterchecked.
Hence counterˈchecking ppl. a.
1598Mucedorus Introd. in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 203 Post hence thyself, thou counterchecking trull. |