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† ˈcounter-time Obs.
[In senses 1 and 2 transl. F. contretemps in same senses: see contretemps; in sense 3 counter is prob. adj.]
1. Fencing. A pass or thrust made at a wrong or inopportune moment; contretemps 1. Also fig.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. xi. 226 Martius..nere discourseth but of fencing feats, Of counter times, finctures, sly passataes. 1676Dryden Aurengz. iv. i, Let Chearfulness on happy Fortune wait And give not thus the Counter-time to Fate.
2. Horsemanship. Interruption by a horse of the cadence or regularity of movement, owing to bad horsemanship or to unruly disposition.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 82 His horse..gave sometimes such counter-times, as might teach a good Horseman to stick firme to his seete. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Counter Time is the defence or resistance of a Horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manage.
3. Contrary or opposite time.
1662Hobbes Seven Prob. Wks. 1845 VII. 14 You would see..the water on the other side of the bar to do the same, but in counter-time. |