Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plead the contrary of; contradict; deny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
plead thecontrary of; to plead against; todeny .
Etymologies
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Examples
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-- _Spigornel_ (for Adam): 'Sir, according to the custom of the town, he is of age when he knows how to count up to twelve pence, and he shall answer in a writ of Right at that age; and inasmuch as he would answer in a writ of Right at that age, he shall warrant at that age, or shall counterplead, &c.
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Judgment if he shall not warrant or counterplead. '
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Confronted with this picture of insensate delusion and folly, the critical reader will immediately counterplead that England all this time was conducting a war which involved the organization of several millions of fighting men and of the workers who were supplying them with provisions, munitions, and transport, and that this could not have been done by a mob of hysterical ranters.
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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At com - mon law, if a ftranger was vouched, the demandant could not counterplead it; but by Weft.
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