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rse than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne.

To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

ate of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience. To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences. Swift. And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction Bunyan.

To bargain for; to buy. [Obs.]

age; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. Shak.

ry, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

utual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1.

At or against the front or face. [R.] Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys.

A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as:

To oppose; to revoke the command of. For us to alter anuthing, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him. Hooker.

ther sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.

To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody.

To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby.

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

To wait or watch for; to be on guard against. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.