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Countermarch   Listen
noun
Countermarch  n.  
1.
A marching back; retrocession.
2.
(Mil.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.
3.
A change of measures; alteration of conduct. "Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom."


verb
Countermarch  v. i.  (past & past part. countermarched; pres. part. countermarching)  (Mil.) To march back, or to march in reversed order. "The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded."





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"Countermarch" Quotes from Famous Books



... followed by all the rest of the files as they are next to them in order. The like shall be done by the inward, or by the outward files in case they be first called. And the files, as every man has drawn his ball, if it be silver, shall behind at the urn to countermarch to their places, but he that has drawn a gold ball at a side urn shall proceed to the middle urn, where if the balls he draws be silver he shall also countermarch, but if it be gold he shall take his place upon a ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington
... the place wherein these twelve temptations are kept, a certain servant of one Mammon did serve upon him a paper, which is called a summons, and did command him to pay for his butter. At which PHYSKE was much enraged and did wax wroth. And thereupon he did march and countermarch his soldiers many times. And he ordered another coat of many colors, and lo! in all Chatham Street there was not cloth enough to make it, so they brought it from a foreign land. And it came to pass that he and the ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870 • Various
... Christian majesty's successful countermarch. The very children in the streets would follow them with hootings, if these fooleries were reiterated. But, if that attempt were made, and in some instances should even succeed, so much the worse for ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various


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