Also counter-check, (7 conter-check). [COUNTER- 1.]
† 1. trans. To ‘check,’ rebuke or reprove either in reply to a rebuke or taunt, or as an expression of opposition. Obs.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1296/1. Hymineus denieth his good will…: notwithstanding Diana hath so counter-checked him therefore, as he shall hereafter be at your commandement.
1590. Greene, Never too late (1600), 66. Hee tooke the wall of the young noble man, which Seruilius taking in disdain, countercheckt with this frump.
1598. [see COUNTERCHECKING below].
2. To check or arrest by counteraction.
1590. Lodge, Euphues Gold. Leg., Ded. Every humorous passion countercheckt with a storme.
1598. J. Dickenson, Green in Conc. (1878), 105. The course of a strong currant, counterchekt by a barre of earth.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., X. i. 15. His Maiesty … with his owne hand wrote to counter-checke his former Warrant.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Cypress Grove, Wks. (1711), 122. As if there were a secret opposition in fate … to … conter-check all our devices and proposals.
1861. Gresley, Sophron & N., 357. All the tendencies of her condition are checked and counterchecked.
Hence Counterchecking ppl. a.
1598. Mucedorus, Introd. in Hazl., Dodsley, VII. 203. Post hence thyself, thou counterchecking trull.
