a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ABLE.] Liable to or characterized by counterchange, reciprocation, alternation or transposition. Hence Counterchangeableness, Counterchangeably adv.
1605. Camden, Rem., 172. And counterchangeably writte in the Argent, Ater, and in the Sables, Albvs.
1618. T. Gainsford, P. Warbeck, in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793), 69. Subject to the … mutability of the world, counterchangeableness of times, and inconstancy of people.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. Roll Battel Abbey, 171. Then England and France may be said to have born counterchangeably each others Natives.
1671. Grew, Anat. Plants, I. v. § 4. The Empalement … consisting of several pieces; yet those in divers Rounds, and all with a counterchangeable respect to each other.
