counterscale

counterbalance

Noun

  1. counterbalance
    • cast New-Inn in counterscale with Christ-Church College - 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. Tho. Prichard”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page),...

Origin

From counter- + scale, as if balancing one scale against another.