Both Uses of
countermand
in
Measure for Measure
- Have you no countermand for Claudio yet, But he must die to-morrow?†
Scene 4.2 *
- Happily You something know; yet I believe there comes No countermand; no such example have we: Besides, upon the very siege of justice, Lord Angelo hath to the public ear Profess'd the contrary.†
Scene 4.2
Definition:
a command or order that cancels a previous command or order