LekhoriLekhoriTo recall a person or unit with such an order.
To cancel an order for (some specified goods).
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.
An order to the contrary of a previous one.
From Old French contremander, from Medieval Latin contramandō, from contra + mandō (“I order; I command”).
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