counterseal
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
counterseal (third-person singular simple present counterseals, present participle countersealing, simple past and past participle countersealed)
- (transitive) To seal or ratify with another or others.
- c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- like conditions, will have counter-sealed.
Noun edit
counterseal (plural counterseals)
- An additional seal applied to the reverse of the main seal.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “counterseal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)