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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge.

Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. Grote.

Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison. Sir T. Browne. -- An"ti*do`tal*ly, adv.

A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n.

Counteractive of hypochondria. -- n.

Counteracting hysteria. -- n.

Antagonistic to one's country or nation, or to a national government.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. -- n.

An opposing law or rule of any kind. As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute. Milton.

Counteracting inflammation.

The country of those who live on the opposite side of the globe. Latham.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. -- n.