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单词 countertime
释义

countertime

See also: counter-time

English

Etymology

counter- + time. Doublet of contretemps.

Noun

countertime (countable and uncountable, plural countertimes)

  1. (obsolete) The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.
  2. (obsolete) resistance; opposition
    • John Dryden
      Give not thus the countertime to fate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for countertime in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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