[COUNTER- 1.] To put a question in reply to a question. Hence Counter-questioning vbl. sb.
1864. Bowen, Logic, vii. 216. Krug remarks: ‘The Cornutus and Crocodilinus of the ancients … were … sophisms of counter-questioning.’
1877. Athenæum, 6 Oct., 430/3. The antagonism of counter-questionings.
