"counterly" meaning in All languages combined

See counterly on Wiktionary

Adverb [English]

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} counterly (not comparable)
  1. (heraldry, rare) In a way that is counter to something else, for example in colour (being divided, as a field, bordure, etc, into different colours), or placement (facing different directions, or crossed). Tags: not-comparable, rare Categories (topical): Heraldry
    Sense id: en-counterly-en-adv-wmSNNQZN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics

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          "ref": "1611, John Guillim, John Barkham, A Display of Heraldrie: Manifesting a More Easie Accesse to the Knowledge Thereof Then Hath Beene Hitherto Published by Any, Through the Benefit of Method, Whereinto it is Now Reduced by the Industry of Joh. Gwillim Pursuiuant of Armes, page 18",
          "text": "3 He beareth Azure a Bordure counter-componed: Or, and Guiles; which is as much to say, as Compounded of these two Colours counterly placed. Note that Countercompony consisteth euermore of two tracts onely and no more.",
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