Definition of Counterposed

1. Verb. (past of counterpose) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Counterposed

1. counterpose [v] - See also: counterpose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterposed

counterploy
counterploys
counterpoint
counterpointed
counterpointing
counterpoints
counterpoise
counterpoised
counterpoises
counterpoising
counterpoison
counterpoisons
counterpole
counterpoles
counterpose
counterposed (current term)
counterposes
counterposing
counterposition
counterpositional
counterpositions
counterpower
counterpowers
counterprejudice
counterprejudices
counterpreparation fire
counterpressure
counterpressured
counterpressures
counterpressuring

Literary usage of Counterposed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds (1906)
"... Middle Ages in Dissolution—Transition to Modern Thought and Science—Humanism counterposed to Scholasticism—Petrarch—Pico —Dialogues on Ethics—Importance ..."

2. Trade Strategies for a New Era: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in a Global Economy by Geza Feketekuty, Bruce Stokes (1998)
"“Niche” comparative advantage in a particular sub-industry in Europe may be counterposed to US disadvantage in exactly the same niche in North American ..."

3. The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1919)
"Bakunin declares war on Schelling and his positive philosophy, which Schelling had counterposed to Hegel's negative rationalism. In 1841 Frederick William ..."

4. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"But as all propositions may be either purely converted or purely counterposed, consequently the two last cases can at most so far deviate from the fii-st ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The two ideals are counterposed and mutually exclusive. No city calls itself either Guelf or Ghibelline till it has expelled one-half of its inhabitants; ..."

6. The Practical Book of Interior Decoration by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Edward Stratton Holloway, Abbot MacClure (1919)
"Again, and this was peculiarly characteristic of the Rocaille episode, it might be altogether asymmetrical, depending upon adroitly counterposed flexures to ..."

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