counterchanged

English

Party per fess or and gules, a lion counterchanged

Etymology

From counter- +‎ changed.

Adjective

counterchanged (not comparable)

1. Exchanged.
   • 1875, James DAVIES (of Sandringham School, Southport.), History of England, 1640-1660, page 17:

     ... both sides re-engaging with exactly counterchanged fronts and positions. Again did the stern valor of the Roundheads prove irresistible : Goring was swept from the field, after a furious struggle, […]

2. (heraldry) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually.

   If the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.

Alternative forms

• counter-changed

Synonyms

• countercharged

Translations

heraldry

• French: de l’un en l’autre (literally “of the one in the other”)

Further reading

• “counterchanged”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.