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Definition of Counterchecked
1. countercheck [v] - See also: countercheck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterchecked
Literary usage of Counterchecked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"... all of which has been demonstrated in the laboratory, aud has been counterchecked
by experiments on the effects of increased barometric pressure, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... and every human passion counterchecked with a storm"; his Margarite of America,
1596, was begun in the strait of Magellan, on board ship, where'' I had ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"It is interesting to find that the results obtained in the study of the former
phenomenon are confirmed and counterchecked by the results obtained in the ..."
4. The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1904)
"... the fruits of his labours that he wrought in the ocean, when every line was
wet with a surge, and every humorous passion counterchecked with a storm. ..."
5. Seventeenth Century Studies by Edmund Gosse (1914)
"... that gives you the fruits of his labours that he wrought in the ocean, when
every line was wet with a surge, and every humorous passion counterchecked ..."
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