Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of the past participle of trace.
  • noun A Scotch form of trest.

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Examples

  • In the distance, a small building added a dramatic con­trast to the Menin Gate and to the silence of the region.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Hels 2009

  • In the distance, a small building added a dramatic con­trast to the Menin Gate and to the silence of the region.

    ANZAC Day 2009: Longstaff in Ypres Hels 2009

  • (The 70th, in con - trast, incorporated Company D tanks directly into the battered medium tank companies about the same time.)

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • Here the con trast is with the Aaronic priesthood.

    Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 1973

  • In Greece of the fourth century B.C. the great con - trast was that between nature and custom.

    NATURE GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • From the time when man first practiced agriculture and began to domesticate animals, the con - trast between the tamed agricultural landscape and the wild, untouched country elsewhere must have been apparent.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RAYMOND F. DASMANN 1968

  • The lat - ter meaning would be interesting only by way of con trast or similarity to our own reactions.

    LOVE DENIS DE ROUGEMONT 1968

  • Ismā ` īlīs, who came to develop a philosophy of their own, distinct from the Peripatetics, a philosophy which reached its peak with Nāṩir-e Khusraw who, in con - trast to the early Peripatetics nearly all of whom wrote in Arabic, composed his philosophical works in Persian.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR 1968

  • The au - thor looks with distinct disfavor on the baroque, its sensual mysticism, its externality, its verbalism in con - trast to the truly Dutch (and at the same time universal) art of Rembrandt.

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Wölfflin suggests that the con - trast between Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1516) and Tas - so's Gerusalemme liberata (1584) could be compared to the distinction between Renaissance and baroque.

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

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