v. Obs. [COUNTER- 1.] = CONTRADISTINGUISH. Hence Counterdistinguished ppl. a.
1611. Florio, Contradistinguere, to distinguish against, to counterdistinguish.
1648. T. White, Smoak Botoml. Pit, 35. It [stony ground] is counterdistinguished to good ground.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), 148. 148. Counterdistinguishing it unto the Idiotismus Francicus.
1730. A. Gordon, Maffei’s Amphith., 172. The counterdistinguished Letters are wanting in the Stone, and I have supplied them.
