countermand
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/
美 /ˈkaʊntɚˌmænd/|/ˌkaʊntɚˈmænd/
英文释义
名词 n.
- An order to the contrary of a previous one.
动词 v.
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To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
— Near-synonym: counteract
- To recall a person or unit with such an order.
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To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
— Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying.
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To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.
— Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.”
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To prohibit (a course of action or behavior).
— Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
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To oppose or revoke the command of (someone).
— For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
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To maintain control of, to keep under command.
— Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe, That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land. And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.
词源
词源 1
From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“to order; to command”).
词源 2
From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“to order; to command”).
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