Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Opposing; opposite; contradictory; inconsistent.
- noun A contradicter: in English history, the name given to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and the barons who took part with him against King Edward II., because, on account of their great power, it was not expedient to call them rebels or traitors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory.
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- adjective
contrary ;opposed ;antagonistic ;contradictory
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Examples
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Recurrings there will be; hankerings that will, on every but-remotely-favourable incident, (however before discouraged and beaten back by ill success,) pop up, and abate the satisfaction we should otherwise take in contrariant overtures.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The Stoics attribute the cause of sterility to the contrariant qualities and dispositions of those who lie with one another; but if it chance that these persons are separated, and there happen a conjunction of those who are of a suitable temperament, then there is a commixture according to nature, and by this means an infant is formed.
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It does not seem that there was in 1603 any statute to which canon 113 was necessarily contrariant or that any has been passed since.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Egypt, the dualism of Persia, the shamanism of Etruria, the pronounced polytheism of India are too contrariant to admit of any one explanation, or to be derivative of one single source ....
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Gray, and dark gray, and purple, they writhed in confused, contrariant motions, and tossed up a vaporous foam, while spots in them gyrated like whirlpools.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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There was nothing contrariant between God's elder and later dispensation.
Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843
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Other lawful affections are not contrariant to this, but contained in it.
Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843
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Recurrings there will be; hankerings that will, on every but-remotely-favourable incident, (however before discouraged and beaten back by ill success,) pop up, and abate the satisfaction we should otherwise take in contrariant overtures.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725
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1984, Gary Hart lost Iowa to Walter Mondale, but won New Hampshire, contrariant (ph) again.
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_Guillaume Féret_, who brought the placards from Switzerland.] [Footnote 358: Under the head of _Sacramentarians_ were included all who, like Zwingle, denied the bodily presence of Christ in or with the elements of the eucharist.] [Footnote 359: "De ne lire, dogmatiser, translater, composer ni imprimer, soit en public ou en privé, aucune doctrine contrariant à la foy chrétionne."
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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