Countermand vs Uncountermanded - What's the difference?
countermand | uncountermanded |
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
To recall a person or unit with such an order.
To prohibit; to forbid.
* Harvey
To oppose; to revoke the command of.
* Hooker
As a verb countermand
is to revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.As a noun countermand
is an order to the contrary of a previous one.As an adjective uncountermanded is
not countermanded; unopposed.countermand
English
Verb
(en verb)- to countermand an order for goods
- Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
- For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
