counter flory (kounterflori)

[ charged with flowers, such as fleurs-de-lis, which are divided and separated by the whole width of the bearing so charged. Thus, in the illustration the tre ure is counter - flory, having half of each fleur-de-lis within and half without. There would be no counterfeits but for the sake of something real. Til lots on . 3t. One who feigns or simulates; a counter counter-flowered (koun - terflory and Counter feiter; an impostor. Now when these counterfeits were thus uncased, Out of the fore-side of their forgerie, And in the sight of all men cleane disgraced. Spenser, F. Q., V. iii. 39. They [scorners] evidently saw that some who set up for greater purity, and a demurer shew and face of religion than their neighbours, were really counterfeits , and meant nothing, at the bottom, but their own interest. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. v.