Counterchange vs Counterchanged - What's the difference?
counterchange | counterchanged |
To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
(obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:
exchanged
(heraldry) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually.
As a verb counterchange
is to give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.As a noun counterchange
is an exchange of one thing for another.As an adjective counterchanged is
exchanged.counterchange
English
Verb
(counterchang)- Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Noun
(en noun)- But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].
References
* *counterchanged
English
Adjective
(-)- If the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged , that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.