counterstand

English

Etymology

Noun

counterstand (plural counterstands)

(obsolete) A stand against; opposition, resistance.
- 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 42, lines 85–87:
  Your knowledge has no counterstand against her; / She makes provision, judges, and pursues / Her governance, as theirs the other gods.

Anagrams

uncontrasted

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “counterstand”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)