Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To seal mutually or in addition; seal with another or others.
- noun The reverse side of a seal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To seal or ratify with another or others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
seal orratify with another or others.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reverse contains a small counterseal, 1-3/8 inch in diameter.
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Her counterseal bore the wavy bars of her second husband upon a shield within a beautifully designed quatrefoil, and the vacant spaces above and beneath it Avere filled with a lion from her father's shield,
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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Gilbert of Clare, earl of Hertford, counterseal. c.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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Their usual shape, however, was round, and even upon the oval figure seals of the middle of the thirteenth century the armorial secretum or counterseal was round (pi. xvi,/,/).
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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