[f. prec.: cf. COUNTER- 1. (In first quot. app. nonce-use for an etymological purpose.)] trans. To give orders against (what has been previously ordered); to countermand.
1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., III. 122. The first word signifies properly disordered, counter-ordered, or ordered against.
1768. Earl Malmesbury, Diaries & Corr. (1844), I. 31. The Russian troops … were now counter-ordered.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, lvii. I did not counter-order it.
1880. Burton, Reign Q. Anne, III. xiv. 22. To counter-order what Vendôme had ordered.
