2. Adjective. That moves in opposition or retaliation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Countermoving
1. countermove [v] - See also: countermove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countermoving
Literary usage of Countermoving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"... began moving round as before, countermoving in the revolving mirrors on her
right hand, she being as it were the fixed point in an undulating, dazzling, ..."
2. Creation Or Evolution?: A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis (1887)
"... carried them along with it, although the time of their separate rotations was
more or less modified by their own inherent and countermoving forces. ..."
3. Outlines of Analogical Philosophy: Being a Primary View of the Principles by George Field (1839)
"This is accomplished in two ways mechanically ; by polishing or reducing the
penetrating points of substances countermoving in contact — and by extending ..."
4. The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of by John Scott (1826)
"In which happy state we shall be no longer ground between those countermoving
millstones, the law in our minds and the law in our members; ..."
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