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# 三八線
## Chinese

| | | three | eight | thread; string; wirethread; string; wire; line |
| trad. (三八線/三八綫) | trad. (三八線/三八綫) | 三 | 八 | 線/綫 |
| simp. (三八线) | simp. (三八线) | 三 | 八 | 线 |
* 三八線

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Sān Bā Xiàn
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄅㄚ ㄒㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): saam$^1$ baat$^3$ sin$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Sān Bā Xiàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄅㄚ ㄒㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: San Ba Siàn
*** Wade–Giles: San$^1$ Pa$^1$ Hsien$^4$
*** Yale: Sān Bā Syàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: San Ba Shiann
*** Palladius: Сань Ба Сянь (Sanʹ Ba Sjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /sän⁵⁵ pä⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: saam$^1$ baat$^3$ sin$^3$
*** Yale: sāam baat sin
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saam$^1$ baat$^8$ sin$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sam$^1$ bad$^3$ xin$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /saːm⁵⁵ paːt̚³ siːn³³/

### Proper noun

三八線
* (historical) the latitude of 38th parallel north (which served also as the actual control line prior to the Korean War)
* Military Demarcation Line (between North and South Korea nowadays)

### Noun

* (figurative) The boundary line defined on the desk between deskmates, which neither party is allowed to cross. Commonly seen among elementary school students in mainland China.
# goand
## English
### Verb

goand
* (chiefly obsolete) present participle of go

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* goande

### Etymology

From Middle English goand, goande, variant of Middle English goende, goonde, gond, gonde, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gāndz, present participle of Proto-West Germanic *gān (“to go”), equivalent to go +‎ -and.
Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going, walking”), Dutch gaand (“going, walking”), Low German gahn (“going, walking”), German gehend (“going, walking”), Danish gående (“going, walking”), Norwegian gående (“going, walking”), Swedish gående (“going, walking”).

### Verb

goand
* (dated) present participle of go.
    Goand snell athwart the houf, hoo hent 'im be the swyr.Going swiftly across the churchyard, she grabbed him by the neck.
    Goand oot of the holt, she saw a woundor baist.Going out of the woods, she saw a magical creature.
** 1561, Kennedy, Q., Oratioune, (Please provide the book title or journal name):A thirsty man … goand by a tavern.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### References

* The Dictionary of the Scots Language
# tantas
## Javanese
### Romanization

tantas
* Romanization of ꦠꦤ꧀ꦠꦱ꧀

## Latin
### Adjective

tantās
* accusative feminine plural of tantus

## Occitan
### Noun

tantas f
* plural of tanta

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɐ̃.tɐs/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɐ̃.tɐs/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈtɐ̃.tɐʃ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtɐ̃.tas/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtɐ̃.tɐʃ/
* Hyphenation: tan‧tas

### Determiner

tantas f pl
* feminine plural of tanto

### Pronoun

tantas f pl
* feminine plural of tanto

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtantas/ [ˈt̪ãn̪.t̪as]
* Rhymes: -antas
* Syllabification: tan‧tas

### Determiner

tantas
* feminine plural of tanto
# Böller
## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German pöler or boler, originally referring to a mortar or catapult, from Middle High German boln (“to throw, to cast”), with the focus over time shifting towards the sound being made.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbœlɐ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Böller m (strong, genitive Böllers, plural Böller)
* firecracker
    Synonym: Feuerwerkskörper m
    Brot statt Böller ― Bread instead of firecrackers (campaign slogan asking to donate money for the hungry instead of spending it on fireworks)
* a gun or cannon used for salutes

#### Derived terms

* böllern
* Böllerverbot
* Chinaböller
* Polenböller

### References

* Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Böller”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
* Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Böller”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “Böller” in Duden online
* “Böller” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
# Großmaler
## German
### Etymology

From groß (great, large) +‎ Maler (artist, painter).

### Noun

Großmaler m (strong, genitive Großmalers, plural Großmaler)
* (art) great artist
* (art) one who creates large-scale art
    Synonym: Megalograph

#### Related terms

* Großmalerei

### References

* 1852, Friedrich Petri, Gedrängtes Handbuch der Fremdwörter‎, page 520:
* 1854, Newton Ivory Lucas, Englisch-Deutsches und Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch‎ (quotation in English; overall work in English), Bremen: Schünemann, page 1241:
* 1932, Oskar Posner Eugen Lennhoff, Internationales Freimaurer Lexikon‎, page 373:
# Jherusalem
## Old French
### Alternative forms

* Ierusalem

### Etymology

From Late Latin Ierusalem.

### Proper noun

Jherusalem
* Jerusalem (a city in Levant; the claimed (and de-facto) capital city of modern Israel; the claimed capital city of modern Palestine)

#### Descendants

* French: Jérusalem
# Kawésqar
## English
### Alternative forms

* Kawesqar

### Noun

Kawésqar (plural Kawésqars or Kawésqar)
* A member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.
** 2009, María Estela Mansur, and Raquel Piqué, “Between the Forest and the Sea: Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in the Subantarctic Forests in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina”, in Arctic Anthropology‎, volume 46, number 1/2, pages 145-46:[T]he Kawesqar, who occupied the islands and coast of the western sector of the Magellan Strait.

### Proper noun

Kawésqar
* An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people.
** 2008, Willem Adelaar, “Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages”, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics,‎, volume 33, page 27:[A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.

### Related terms

* Kawesqaran

### Further reading

* Ethnologue entry for Kawésqar, alc ⁠
# Rizzo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Italian and Neapolitan Rizzo and/or front Sicilian Rizzu.

### Proper noun

Rizzo (plural Rizzos)
* A surname from Italian.

#### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Rizzo is the 1943rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 18605 individuals. Rizzo is most common among White (92.12%) individuals.

### Further reading

* Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Rizzo”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

## Italian
### Etymology

From of a variant of riccio (“curly-haired”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrit.t͡so/
* Rhymes: -ittso
* Hyphenation: Rìz‧zo

### Proper noun

Rizzo m or f by sense
* a surname

#### Descendants

* English: Rizzo

### Further reading

* Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2024

### Anagrams

* Zorzi, rozzi
# afishoj
## Albanian
### Noun

afishoj
* to placard, post, post up

#### Conjugation

* Show compound tenses:

### Further reading

* “afishoj”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
* “afishoj”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

## Esperanto
### Noun

afishoj
* H-system spelling of afiŝoj
# ammaʼbiʼ
## Makasar
### Etymology

aN- +‎ baʼbiʼ

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈamːaʔbiʔ/

### Verb

ammaʼbiʼ (Lontara spelling ᨕᨆᨅᨗ)
* semi-transitive of baʼbiʼ (“to peel, to shell”)

#### Synonyms

* ammiʼbiʼ

### Further reading

* A. A. Cense (2024) Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek‎, Brill, →DOI
# ataata
## Cebuano
### Etymology

From older ata-ata

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: a‧ta‧a‧ta

### Noun

ataata
* Diospyros mindanaensis, a tree found in Mindanao

## Greenlandic
### Alternative forms

* ataataq
* alaala (East Greenlandic)

### Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *ạta-ata, from Proto-Eskimo *ata-ata. Cognate of Inuktitut ᐊᑖᑕ (ataata) and Inupiaq taata.

### Pronunciation

* (Nuuk) IPA: /ataata/, [a.təː.ta]

### Noun

ataata (plural ataatat)
* father

#### Declension
## Inuktitut
### Noun

ataata
* Latin spelling of ᐊᑖᑕ (ataata)

## Maori
### Etymology

Reduplication of ata.

### Noun

ataata
* shadow, image
* video

#### Descendants

* Maori: atāta

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “ataata”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 22
* “ataata” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
# փոքրանալ
## Armenian
### Etymology

From Old Armenian փոքրանամ (pʻokʻranam), from փոքր (pʻokʻr) +‎ -ան- (-an-).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /pʰokʰɾɑˈnɑl/, [pʰokʰɾɑnɑ́l]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /pokɾɑˈnɑl/, [pʰokʰɾɑnɑ́l]

### Verb

փոքրանալ • (pʻokʻranal)
* (intransitive) to become smaller, shrink, dwindle
* (intransitive) to decrease
    Synonyms: նվազել (nvazel), քչանալ (kʻčʻanal)

#### Inflection

*colloquial
*colloquial
# alizarin crimson
## English
### Noun

alizarin crimson (plural alizarin crimsons)
* a shade of red that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel and has a blue undertone
# szívélyes
## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the archaic szívély (“good temperament, mood”) +‎ -es. First attested in 1842.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsiːveːjɛʃ]
* Hyphenation: szí‧vé‧lyes
* Rhymes: -ɛʃ

### Adjective

szívélyes (comparative szívélyesebb, superlative legszívélyesebb)
* cordial

#### Derived terms

* szívélyesen
* szívélyeskedik
* szívélyesség

### See also

* Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

### References

* ↑ szívélyes in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* szívélyes in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
# salso
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Spanish salsa. Doublet of saŭco and salo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsalso]
* Rhymes: -also
* Hyphenation: sal‧so

### Noun

salso (uncountable, accusative salson)
* (music, dance) salsa

#### Usage notes

Not synonymous with saŭco (“sauce”).

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin salsus (“salty”), from sāl (“salt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsal.so/
* Rhymes: -also
* Hyphenation: sàl‧so

### Adjective

salso (feminine salsa, masculine plural salsi, feminine plural salse)
* (rare) salty
    Synonym: salato

#### Related terms

* salare
* sale
* salsa

### Anagrams

* lasso

## Latin
### Adjective

salsō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of salsus

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin salsus (“salty”), from sāl (“salt”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsalso/ [ˈsal.so]
* Rhymes: -also
* Syllabification: sal‧so

### Adjective

salso (feminine salsa, masculine plural salsos, feminine plural salsas)
* (rare) salty
    Synonym: salado

#### Related terms

* insulso
* sal
* salar
* salsa

### Further reading

* “salso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
# pedicure
## English
### Etymology

From French pédicure, from Latin pes (“foot”).

### Pronunciation

* (Canada) IPA: /ˈpɛ.dɪ.kjʊɹ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

pedicure (plural pedicures)
* A cosmetic treatment for the feet and toenails.
    go for a pedicure
    get a pedicure
    give someone a pedicure
* (dated) A pedicurist.

#### Coordinate terms

* mani
* manicure

#### Derived terms

* French pedicure
* mani-pedi
* pedi

#### Translations
### Verb

pedicure (third-person singular simple present pedicures, present participle pedicuring, simple past and past participle pedicured)
* (transitive, intransitive) To apply such a treatment to the feet.

### Further reading

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pedicure”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pe.diˈku.re/
* Rhymes: -ure
* Hyphenation: pe‧di‧cù‧re

### Noun

pedicure f (invariable)
* pedicure

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* pedikiur

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pédicure.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛ.diˈkir/, /pɛ.diˈkjur/, /pɛˈdi.kjur/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ir, -ur, -ikjur
* Syllabification: pe‧di‧cure

### Noun

pedicure m inan
* pedicure (cosmetic treatment for the feet and toenails)

#### Derived terms

* pedicurzysta
* pedicurzystka

### Further reading

* pedicure in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* pedicure in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Noun

pedicure f (plural pedicures)
* pedicure (cosmetic treatment of the feet and toenails)
* a professional who provides pedicure

## Spanish
### Noun

pedicure m (plural pedicures)
* pedicure
# ebbed
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛbd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛbd

### Adjective

ebbed
* Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
** 1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared, by being lacked.
** 1795, Charles Este, A Journey in the Year 1793, page 109:But now, like the ebbed finances of one out of place, every thing seems to hang about it lose and empty.
** 1917 January, Leonora Orem Rocheleau, “The Great Equation”, in The Mother's Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 41:They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.
** 2005, Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, page 205:Presided over by a political monster, with two sons waiting in the possible succession who had more than shown their own aptitude for cruelties that most of the good peace marchers will find nearly unthinkable without their being overcome by existential revulsion and fear, a regime that was certainly a continuing threat to those living under it and perceived, quite reasonable, as a potential if not immediate threat beyond its borders, Saddam's regime gave no grounds at all for confidence in the hypotesis of an “ebbed” future level of killing.
** 2016, Sylvia Kelso, Source, page 502:My first clear—my first new memory is of waking, slowly, so slowly, with the languor of a fever patient whose crisis is past, in an ebbed, remote lucidity as unfamiliar as the feel of sheets.
** 2018, William Atkins, The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places:There were those still living, said Serik when I got back to the car, who had visited the graves since childhood and had watched as, decade by decade, the water below first withdrew, then further withdrew, until the vessels in their obsolescence were abandoned, circumscribed by a shrinking pond and then, as the water vanished, set down in the dry sediment, canted there as if by an ebbed tide that had failed to come back.

#### Derived terms

* unebbed

### Verb

ebbed
* simple past and past participle of ebb
# עיצב
## Hebrew

* Root
* ע־צ־ב (ʿ-ts-b)
* 5 terms

### Verb

עיצב / עִצֵּב • ('itsév) (pi'el construction)
* to shape, give a shape to

#### References

* H6087 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
# disfigure
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English disfiguren, from Anglo-Norman desfigurer.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪsˈfɪɡə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /dɪsˈfɪɡjɚ/

### Verb

disfigure (third-person singular simple present disfigures, present participle disfiguring, simple past and past participle disfigured)
* to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.
    His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.
** 1959 November, G. H. Robin, “Railways to Helensburgh—a pre-electrification retrospect”, in Trains Illustrated, page 544:The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.

#### Synonyms

* leper (rare)

#### Derived terms

* disfiguration
* disfigurative
* disfigurement
* disfigurer
* disfiguringly
# allspice
## English
### Etymology

all + spice, as it was thought to combine the flavours of various other spices.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

allspice (countable and uncountable, plural allspices)
* (uncountable) A spice; the dried and ground unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica, thought to combine the flavours of several spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.
* (countable) Pimenta dioica, an evergreen tree of tropical America with aromatic berries.

#### Synonyms

* (spice): pimento
* (tree): Jamaica pepper

#### Derived terms

* allspiced
* Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus)

#### References

* allspice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:allspice on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Pimenta dioica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Pimenta dioica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

### Anagrams

* Capellis, Pacellis, speciall, specilla
# Rhein
## German
### Alternative forms

* Rein (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle High German Rīn, from Old High German Rīn, from Proto-West Germanic *Rīn (“the river Rhine”). The spelling with Rh- after Latin Rhenus, itself possibly a Hellenizing form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁaɪ̯n/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: Rain, rein
* Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

### Proper noun

der Rhein m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Rheins or des Rheines)
* Rhine (a major river in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France and the Netherlands, emptying into the North Sea)
    Meronyms: Alpenrhein, Hochrhein, Oberrhein, Mittelrhein, Niederrhein, Deltarhein

#### Derived terms

* Mittelrhein
* Niederrhein
* Nordrhein
* Oberrhein
* Rhein-Erft-Kreis
* Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
* Rhein-Kreis Neuss
* Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
* Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
* Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis
* Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
* Rheinbrücke
* rheinisch
* Rheinland

#### Related terms

* Rheinmaasländisch (subst.) / rheinmaasländisch (adj.)

#### Descendants

* → Russian: Рейн (Rejn)
* → Chinese: → 萊茵 / 莱茵 (Láiyīn) (transliteration)

### Further reading

* Rhein on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$
# artefact
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

artefact (plural artefacts)
* (Australian spelling, British spelling) Alternative spelling of artifact
** 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry‎, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.

#### Derived terms

* artefactual
* macroartefact
* microartefact

#### Translations
### References

* “artefact”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* farctate

## Dutch
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑr.tə.fɑkt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ar‧te‧fact

### Noun

artefact n (plural artefacten, diminutive artefactje n)
* artifact

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: artefak

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

artefact m (plural artefacts)
* Alternative form of artéfact

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French artéfact.

### Noun

artefact n (uncountable)
* artifact
# countermand
## English
### Etymology

From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“I order; I command”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌkaʊntəˈmɑːnd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkaʊntɚˌmænd/, /ˌkaʊntɚˈmænd/

### Verb

countermand (third-person singular simple present countermands, present participle countermanding, simple past and past participle countermanded) (transitive)
* To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given.
    Synonyms: cancel, rescind, veto, override
    Near-synonym: counteract
    to countermand an order for goods
* To recall a person or unit with such an order.
* To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
** 1727, Jonathan Swift, A True and Faithful Narrative of What Passed in London:Three of the maids of honour ſent to countermand their birth-day cloaths; two of them burnt all their collections of novels and romances, and ſent to a bookſeller’s in Pall-mall to buy each of them a bible, and Taylor’s holy living and dying.
* (figuratively) To counteract, to act against, to frustrate.
** 2018 February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, in The Guardian‎:Early on, Ezra gives her a lesson to countermand the endless female impulse to apologise: “Darling, don’t continually say ‘I’m sorry’. Next time you feel like saying ‘I’m sorry’, instead say ‘Fuck you’.”
* (obsolete) To prohibit (a course of action or behavior).
    Synonyms: prohibit, forbid
** 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles.
* (obsolete) To oppose or revoke the command of (someone).
** 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
* (obsolete) To maintain control of, to keep under command.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene i:Two thousand horſe ſhal forrage vp and downe, That no reliefe or ſuccour come by land. And all the ſea my Gallies countermaund.

#### Derived terms

* countermandable
* countermander
* countermandment
* uncountermanded

#### See also

* counterargue

### Noun

countermand (plural countermands)
* An order to the contrary of a previous one.
# destruct
## English
### Etymology

Back-formation from destruction.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪˈstɹʌkt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌkt

### Verb

destruct (third-person singular simple present destructs, present participle destructing, simple past and past participle destructed)
* (transitive, nonstandard) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
    Synonym: destroy
* (transitive, programming) To invoke the destructor of.
* (intransitive) To self-destruct.

#### Derived terms

* autodestruct
* destructedness
* destructible