The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countermand \Coun`ter*mand"\ (koun`t[~e]r*m[.a]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Countermanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermanding.] [F. contremander; contre (L. contra) + mander to command, fr. L. mandare. Cf. Mandate.]
To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
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To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.]
Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodies.
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To oppose; to revoke the command of.
For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
--Hooker.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: countermand)
Usage examples of "countermanded".
He was sending the Eighth and Eleventh Corps in to reinforce them, but he was countermanded by CONARC.
She knew perfectly well, if she had countermanded his order, he would have been in the right of it to call her down.
It was enough to finish the meal and slip from the Hall to the kitchens, to be sure that this new Lady Holder had not countermanded my order about the broken meats.
He knew that word betrayed would arouse Khamenei's attention "My orders were countermanded, and because of this, our main island protectorate in the Persian Gulf, Abu Musa, has been attacked by Gulf Cooperative Council air forces.
Buzhazi lied, knowing full well that Nateq-Nouri had never countermanded any of Buzhazi's orders.
Ship CompControl is unable to give any support, unless these orders are countermanded by a live human.
The flagship had obviously countermanded her second discharge, and for a while she kept to her course, close-hauled, as though the Sophie did not exist.
On August 3 General Selliers in his turn countermanded the King’s order for demolition of the bridges above Liege on the ground that they were needed for movements of the Belgian Army.
In the befogged and bitter hours of Sunday night, August 23, when the whole French plan was collapsing, when no one could be certain what was hap pening from sector to sector, when the specter of another Sedan haunted minds other than Lanrezac’s, GQG neither questioned nor countermanded the Fifth Army’s retreat.
If Icove's orders were countermanded by the wife at some point earlier today, one of the droids could have opened the door for the killer, then had its memory washed.
First the countermand to my orders for cover at Lavenurb—which I countermanded in turn—then her midspace tirade.