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† Countermount, -mont adv. World English Historical Dictionary

† Countermount, -mont adv. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Countermount, -mont adv. Obs. [a. F. contremont, in OF. cuntremunt up-hill, up, contrariwise, f. contre against + mont mount, hill.] Up-hill, upwards, against the hill or slope; against the natural course or ordinary way. Also fig.

1 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VI. x. 77. Quhair throw the sandis … Erydanus, the hevinlie riveir cleir, Flowis countirmont and wpwart to the lift.

2 1596.  Danett, trans. Comines, 118. He might haue gone vp countermount against the riuer of Rhene. Ibid., 324. Horses and men were forced to draw countermount at the taile of euery peece.

3 1647.  Ward, Simp. Cobler, 29. They rather draw countermont with their hearts.

4 1808.  Jamieson, Contirmont, against the hill, upwards. The term is metaphorically applied to any thing that is contrary to the nature or the course of things.

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