contrary (kontrari)

and n. [ Slippers which his nimble haste had falsely thrust upon contrary feet. Swift . 2. In bot., at right angles to: as, a silique compre ed contrary to the di epiment (that is, in a direction at right angles to it, in distinction from a parallel direction).-3. Extremely unlike; the most unlike of anything within the same cla : thus, hot and cold, up and down, sage and fool, heaven and hell, are contrary terms. In logic two propositions are contrary when the one denies every po ible case of the other: as, All cows are black; No cows are black. They are contradictory when, one being universal, the other denies some only of the things a erted in the first: as, All men are wise; Some men are not wise. Our critics take a contrary extreme; They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 661. I discovered that he was most violently attached to the contrary opinion. Goldsmith, Vicar, ii. 4. Adverse; hostile; opposing; antagonistic; opposite; conflicting. Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us. Col. ii. 14. That he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed. Tit. ii. 8. 5. Given to contradiction; acting in oppos i- tion; captious; perverse; intractable; unac- commo dating. IMG:content-1197.png:[blocks in formation] See I., 3. No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. Shak ., Lear, ii. 2. If conscience be a proof of innate principles, contraries may be innate principles, since some men, with the same bent of conscience, prosecute what others avoid. Locke, Human Understanding, I. iii. § 8. In the language of logicians, as in that of life, a thing has only one contrary-its extreme opposite; the thing farthest removed from it in the same cla . Black is the con trary of white, but neither of them is the contrary of red. Infinitely great is the contrary of infinitely small, but is not the contrary of finite. J. S. Mill. 3. A contradiction; a denial. [Rare.]-4+. An adversary. Whether he or thou May with his hundred, as I spak of now, Slen his contrarye. di imilitude of; heighten the effect of, or show to advantage, by opposition of position, attitude, form, or color. The figures of the groups must not be all on a side,.. but must contrast each other by their several positions. Quoted in Dryden's Parallel of Poetry and Painting. =Syn. Compare, Contrast, etc. See comparel. II. in trans. To stand in contrast or opposition; exhibit diversity on comparison. The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell. Whether some false sense in her own self Of my contrasting brightne , overbore Her fancy dwelling in this dusky hall. In contraryt, in opposition; to the contrary. Who so maketh god his aduersarie, As for to werche any thing in contrarie Of his wil, certes neuer shal he thryue. Chaucer, Canon's Yeoman's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 758. Mediate and immediate contraries, in logic , such contraries, respectively, as do or do not admit of a third term intermediate between them. Of contraries immediate there is a nece ity that one of them should be in a capacious subject. So of nece ity every number must be even or odd. Of mediates, no nece ity for either of them; because the medium itself may occupy the subject: for it is not nece ary that a body should be black or white; because it may be red or green. Burgersdicius, tr. by a Gentleman. On the contrary, in precise or extreme opposition to what has been stated. It must not be supposed, that the repose of the two armies was never broken by the sounds of war. More than one rencontre, on the contrary , with various fortune, took place. Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. To the contrary, to the opposite or a different effect; in opposition, contradiction, or reversal of something stated. Have you heard any imputation to the contrary? Shak., M. of V., i. 3. We wonder To hear you speak so openly and boldly, The king's command being publish'd to the contrary. Fletcher, Double Marriage, iii. 2. contrary (kon'tra-ri), adv . [ contrary , a.] 1. In a contrary way; with a contrary result. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. Lev. xxvi. 21. Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 2. In her., oppositely; contrariwise: said of two bearings each of which is in some sense the reverse of the other. Thus, contrary flected signifies bent or bowed in opposite directions; contrary invected or in vecked means having both sides invected and in opposite senses; and contrary undė means undé on both the upper and under sides. contrary (kon'trā-ri, formerly kon-trā'ri), v. t.; pret. and pp.contraried, ppr. contrarying. [Early mod. E. also contrarie, contrarye, also contraire; In al the court ne was ther wif ne mayde Ne wydwe, that contraried that he sayde. Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 188. existence. sholde amende, That now contrarien Cristes lawes and Cristendom despisen. Piers Plowman (C), xviii. 251. Proude wittes, that loue not to be contraryed , but haue lust to wrangle or trifle away troth. Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 43. Shak., R. and J., i. 5. You must contrary me! He married Matilda the daughter of Baldouin, the fift Earl of Flaunders, but not without contrast and trouble. Daniel, Hist. Eng., p. 26. In all these contrasts the Archbishop prevailed, and broke through mutinies and high threats. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, ii. 209. 2. Opposition in respect of certain qualities; antagonistic difference; direct opposition: as, the contrasts and resemblances of the seasons. The loose political morality of Fox presented a remarkable contrast to the ostentatious purity of Pitt. Macaulay, William Pitt. Some of his [Emerson's] audience must have felt the contrast between his utterances and the formal discourses they had so long listened to. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, v. 3. Comparison by exhibiting the di imilitude or the contrariety of qualities in the things compared; the placing of opposites together in order to make the antagonism of their qualities more apparent. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilisation were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived both from cooperation and from contrast . Macaulay , Warren Hastings. 4. In the fine arts , opposition of varied forms or colors, which by juxtaposition magnify the effect of one another's peculiarities. contra-stimulant (kontra-stim'ū-lant), a. and n. I. a. Counteracting a stimulant. II. n. In med., a remedy which tends to counteract the effect of a stimulant. contrastive (kon-tras'tiv), a. [ Their admiration is reflex and unconsciously contrastive . Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 241. contrat (F. pron. kôn-trä'), n. [F.: see contract, n.] A contract. - Contrat aléatoire, in civil law, same as aleatory contract (which see, under alea tory). - Contrat de vente, in civil law, contract of sale. - Contrat social. Same as social contract (which see, under contract). - Contrat synallagmatique, in civil law, reciprocal contract.