counterswear
English
Etymology
counter- + swear
Verb
counterswear (third-person singular simple present counterswears, present participle counterswearing, simple past counterswore, past participle countersworn)
- (transitive) To swear against; to take one's oath against.
- 1926, Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages (volume 2, page 374)
- If the defendant denied entirely or only partially, his own oath was conclusive on the point, unless the plaintiff counterswore.
- 2011, Sharon Paice MacLeod, Celtic Myth and Religion (page 190)
- One of the Irish triads stated that the oath of a woman in childbirth was one of the three oaths that could not be countersworn.
- 1926, Thomas Peter Ellis, Welsh Tribal Law and Custom in the Middle Ages (volume 2, page 374)