counterchangingn.
The action of counterchange v.; spec. in Heraldry (see counterchanged adj.).
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [noun] > reversal of tinctures
counterchanging1586
countercolouring1586
transmutation1610
the world > time > change > exchange > [noun]
change?c1225
changingc1350
interchangingc1374
exchangec1384
permutationa1398
commutation1496
achange1530
chopping and changing1548
interchange1548
exchanging1553
promutation1560
intercourse1576
counterchange1579
chopping1581
counter-cambio?1592
interchangementa1616
commerce1631
swapping1695
barter1819
counterchanging1881
switching1904
va-et-vient1919
switch-around1981
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 105 An impaling of the armes of this lady with the Kings, with a counterchanging of them, by the fesse or vmbilique point of the sheeld.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie v. ii. 365 Counter-changing or Transmutation is an Entermixture of seuerall Metals or Colours, both in Field and Charge, occasioned by the apposition of some one or moe lines of partition.
1881 Athenæum 16 Apr. 531/3 We know no other [instance] where double counterchanging has been effected.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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