[COUNTER- 1, after F. contrecharger (in Cotgr.).] trans.
a. To bring a charge against (an accuser). † b. To oppose with a contrary charge or injunction (obs.). c. To charge contrariwise.
1611. Cotgr., Contrecharger. To countercharge; to interchange burthens, or accusations.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl., O. T., XXI. viii. If a Persian law might not be reversed, yet it might be countercharged.
1883. J. F. Boyes, in Longm. Mag., III. 183. Interested … in the passing topics of the hour,… no less than in the larger concerns that countercharge our lives.
