| 单词 |
countermatch |
| 释义 |
▪ I. countermatch, n. ? Obs.|ˈkaʊntəmætʃ|
[counter- 3, 11.]
†1. A thing matched against another; a parallel; an antithetical clause. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay xxv. (1617) 415 It is spoken (say they) from one Countermatch to another.
†2. A rival. Obs.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon (1630) 40 Wines richer than the Gyptian Courtisan Quaft to Augustus Kingly counter⁓match.
†3. Competition, rivalry. Obs.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 142 His child must renounce him in countermatch with his countrie.
4. A reciprocal match. ? Obs.
1614T. Tomkis Albumazar i. v, You two decreed a counter⁓match betwixt you, And purposed to truck daughters.
▪ II. counterˈmatch, v.
[counter- 1: cf. prec.]
1. trans. To be a match for, to match (in opposition), to equal, counterbalance.
1600Holland Livy xxiv. viii. 513 At leastwise equall unto them, and able to countermatch them. 1840æolus 49 The centrifugal tendency..being more countermatched by the centripetal. Ibid. 51 The extinguishing or the countermatching of the original impulse.
†2. To match one thing against another; to set in antithesis. Hence counterˈmatching, antithesis. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay 472 He was condemned, but he iustifieth; Hee was slaine, but he saueth..For these countermatchings and the like we reade of in our Euangelists. Ibid. 485 For who seeth not here a manifest countermatching between the people that are healed, and the partie that suffereth for the healing of them? |
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