Obs. [COUNTER- 1: cf. prec.] trans. To forcibly move or incline to the opposite side; to counterweigh.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, X. xxxiv. Wks. IX. 246. Attempered or counterswayed by heat.
1691. Beverley, Mem. Kingd. Christ, 9. There are two Things that seem to Countersway, and Incline to the Confederacy on the other side.
1710. Norris, Chr. Prud., vi. 233. To countersway our Concupiscence, by the more powerful weight of Divine and Heavenly Love.
