Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, same as
counterchanged .
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- verb Present participle of
counterchange .
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Examples
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And from the mere fact of the counterchanging you gather that it is inlaid, and not onlaid.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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In India they still inlay in cloth most marvellously, not only counterchanging the pattern, but inlaying the inlays with smaller patternwork, thus combining great simplicity of effect with wonderful minuteness of detail.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877
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She sat gazing on the Jewel and its counterchanging splendours in her hand, and the thought of Almeryl and his necessity was her only thought.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete George Meredith 1868
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She sat gazing on the Jewel and its counterchanging splendours in her hand, and the thought of Almeryl and his necessity was her only thought.
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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They prattle, they fill the minutes, as though they were violently to be torn asunder at a coming signal, and must have it out while they can; it is a meeting of mountain brooks; not a colloquy, but a chasing, impossible to say which flies, which follows, or what the topic, so interlinguistic are they and rapidly counterchanging.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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She sat gazing on the Jewel and its counterchanging splendours in her hand, and the thought of Almeryl and his necessity was her only thought.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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They prattle, they fill the minutes, as though they were violently to be torn asunder at a coming signal, and must have it out while they can; it is a meeting of mountain brooks; not a colloquy, but a chasing, impossible to say which flies, which follows, or what the topic, so interlinguistic are they and rapidly counterchanging.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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The counterchanging of day and night, in so exact a method, is a great instance of the power of God, and calls us to observe that, as in the kingdom of nature, so in that of providence, he forms the light and creates the darkness (Isa. xlv.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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