v. rare. [f. COUNTER- 1 + L. secāre, sect- to cut: after intersect.] trans. To intersect crosswise; to cut across, or in cross divisions. Hence Counter-secting ppl. a.
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 114. Aduising not to draw in a counter-secting yoake with Infidels.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., i. (1858), 87. The valley of the ’Arabah, countersected by its hundred watercourses. Ibid. (1857), Lect. Eccl. Hist., lxxii. Characters and principles which underlie and countersect the artificial distinctions on the surface of controversy.
