different between counterchange vs counterchanged

English

Etymology

From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

Verb

counterchange (third-person singular simple present counterchanges, present participle counterchanging, simple past and past participle counterchanged)

1. To give and receive; C; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.

Synonyms

• (to cause to change places): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (to checker): checker, freck (rare, poetic)

Noun

counterchange (plural counterchanges)

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].

References

• counterchange in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• counterchange in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

counter- +? changed

Adjective

counterchanged (not comparable)

1. exchanged
2. (heraldry) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually.

   If the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.