† counter-timen.
Obsolete.
1. Fencing. A pass or thrust made at a wrong or inopportune moment; contretemps n. 1. Also figurative.
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1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H4v Martius..nere discourseth but of fencing feates, Of counter times, finctures, slye passataes.
1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe iv. 56 Let cheerfulness on happy Fortune wait, And give not thus the Counter-time to Fate.
2. Horse Riding. Interruption by a horse of the cadence or regularity of movement, owing to bad horsemanship or to unruly disposition.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > interruption of regularity of movement
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1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 82 His horse..gave sometimes such counter-times, as might teach a good Horseman to stick firme to his seete.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Counter Time,..is the Defence or Resistance of a Horse, that interrupts his Cadence and the Measure of his Manage.
3. Contrary or opposite time.
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a1679 T. Hobbes Seven Philos. Probl. (1682) ii. 10 You would see..the water on the other side of the bar to do the same, but in counter-time.
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