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The apostle's advice, to be angry and sin not, was a contradiction in their philosophy. South. If truth be once perceived, we do thereby also perceive whatsoever is false in contradiction to it. Grew's Cosmologia. 4. Contrariety, in thought or effect. All contradictions grow in those minds, which neither absolutely climb the rock of virtue, nor freely sink into the sea of vanity. Sidney.

Laws human must be made without contradiction unto any positive law in scripture. Hooker. CONTRADICTIOUS. adj. [from contradict.]

1. Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.

The rules of decency, of government, of justice itself, are so different in one place from what they are in another, so party-coloured and contradictious, that one would think the species of men altered according to their elimates. Collier. 2. Inclined to contradict; given to cavil. 3. Opposite to; inconsistent with.

Where the act is unmanly, and the expectation immoral, or contradictious to the attributes of God, our hopes we ought never to entertain. Collier. CONTRADICTIOUSNESS. n. s. [from contradictious.]

1. Inconsistency; contrariety to itself.

This opinion was, for its absurdity and contra dictiousness, unworthy of the refined spirit of Plato. Norris.

2. Disposition to cavil; disputatious temper.

CONTRADICTORILY. adv. [from contradictory.] Inconsistently with himself; oppositely to others.

Such as have discoursed hereon, have so diversely, contrarily, or contradictorily, delivered themselves, that no affirmative from thence can be reasonably deduced. Brozon. CONTRADICTORINESS. n. s. [from contradictory.] Opposition in the highest degree. CONTRADICTORY. adj. [contradictorius, Latin.]

1. Opposite to; inconsistent with.

Dict.

The Jews hold, that in case two rabbies should happen to contradict one another, they were yet bound to believe the contradictory assertions of South's Sermons.

both.

The schemes of those gentlemen are most absurd, and contradictory to common sense. Addis. 2. [In logick.] That which is in the fullest opposition, where both the terms of one proposition are opposite to those of another.

CONTRADICTORY. 2.s. A proposition which opposes another in all its terms; contrariety, inconsistency.

It is common with princes to will contradictovies; for it is the solecism of power to think to command the end, and yet not to endure the

means.

Bucon.

To ascribe unto him a power of election, not to chuse this or that indifferently, is to make the same thing to be determined to one, and to be not determined to one, which are contradictories. Bramball's Answer to Hobbes. CONTRADISTINCTION. n. s. [from contradistinguish.] Distinction by opposite qualities.

We must trace the soul in the ways of intellectual actions; whereby we may come to the

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Locke.

These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. CONTRAFI'SSURE. n. s. [from contra and fissure.]

Contusions, when great, do usually produce a fissure or crack of the scull: either in the same part where the blow was inflicted, and then it is called fissure; or in the contrary part, in which case it obtains the name of contrafissure. Wisem. To CONTRAINDICATE. v. a. [contra and indico, Lat.] To point out some peculiar or incidental symptom or me thod of cure, contrary to what the ge neral tenour of the malady requires.

Vomits have their use in this malady; but the age and sex of the patient, or other urgent or contraindicating symptoms, must be observed. Harvey on Consumption. CONTRAINDICATION. ... [from contraindicate.] An indication or symp tom, which forbids that to be done which the main scope of a disease points out at first. Quincy.

I endeavour to give the most simple idea of the distemper, and the proper diet; abstracting from the complications of the first, or the contraindi cations to the second. Arbuthnot on Alimenti. CONTRAMU'RE. n. s. [contremur, Fr.] In fortification, is an out-wall built about the main wall of a city. Chamb. CONTRANITENCY. n. s. [from contra and nitens, Lat.] Reaction; a resistency against pressure.

Dict.

CONTRAPOSITION, n. s. [from contra and position.] A placing over against. CONTRAREGULARITY. n. s. [from car. tra and regularity.] Contrariety to rule. It is not only its not promoting, but its op posing, or at least its natural aptness to oppose, the greatest and best of ends; so that it is not sa properly an irregularity, as a contrarıgularity,

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CONTRARIANT. adj. [contrariant, from contrarier, French.] Inconsistent; contradictory: a term of law.

The very depositions of witnesses themselves being false, various, centrariant, single, inconclu dent. Ayliffe's Parerg CONTRARIES. n. s. [from contrary.] la logick, propositions which destroy each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.

If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree, no sin is a tree. These can never be both true together, Watts' Legi but they may be both false. CONTRARIETY. n, s. [from contraritli, Latin.]

1. Repugnance; opposition. The will about one and the same thing may, in contrary respects, have contrary inclinations, Hooker. and that without contrariety.

He which will perfectly recover a sick, and restore a diseased, body unto health, must not endeavour so much to bring it to a state of simple contrariety, as of fit proportion in contrariety, unto those evils which are to be cured. Hooker. Making a contrariety the place of my memory, in her foulness I beheld Pamela's fairness; still looking on Mopsa, but thinking on Pamela. Sidney. It principally failed by late setting out, and by Wotton. Some contrariety of weather at sea.

Their religion had more than negative contrariety to virtue. Decay of Piety. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that enterSouth. tain the senses. These two interests, it is to be feared, cannot be divided; but they will also prove opposite, and, not resting in a bare diversity, quickly rise South. into a contrariety.

There is nothing more common than contrariety of opinions; nothing more obvious than that one man wholly disbelieves what another only doubts of, and a third stedfastly believes Locke. and firmly adheres to.

2. Inconsistency; quality or position destructive of its opposite.

He will be here, and yet he is not here; How can these contrarieties agree? Shakspeare. CONTRARILY, adv. [from contrary.] 1. In a manner contrary.

Dict.

Many of them conspire to one and the same action, and all this contrarily to the laws of specifick gravity, in whatever posture the body be formed. Ray on the Creation. 2. Different ways; in different directions. Though all men desire happiness, yet their wills carry them so contrarily, and consequently Locke. some of them do what is evil. CONTRARINESS. n. s. [from contrary.] Contrariety; opposition. CONTRARIOus. adj. [from contrary.] Opposite; repugnant one to the other. God of our fathers, what is man! That thou towards him, with hand so various, Or might I say contrarious, Temper'st thy providence through his short course? Milton. CONTRARIOUSLY. adv. [from contrarious.] Oppositely; contrarily.

Many things, having full reference

To one consent, may work contrariously. Shaks. CONTRARIWISE. adv. [contrary and avise.]

1. Conversely.

Divers medicines in greater quantity move stool, and in smaller urine; and so, contrariwise, some in greater quantity move urine, and in smaller stool. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

Every thing that acts upon the fluids, must at the same time act upon the solids; and contraArbuthnot on Aliments.

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Hooker. This request was never before made by any other lords; but, contrariwise, they were humble suitors to have the benefit and protection of the English laws. Davies en Ireland.

The sun may set and rise; But we, contrariwise,

Perhaps some thing, repugnant to her kind,
By strong antipathy the soul may kill;

But what can be contrary to the mind,
Which holds all contraries in concord still?
Davies.

2. Inconsistent; disagreeing.

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He that believes it, and yet lives contrary to it, knows that he hath no reason for what he does. Tillotson.

The various and contrary choices that men make in the world, do not argue that they do not all pursue good; but that the same thing is not good to every man alike. Locke. Adverse; in an opposite direction. The ship was in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves; for the wind was contrary.

Mattbero. CONTRARY. n. s. [from the adjective.] 1. A thing of opposite qualities. No contraries hold more antipathy, Than I and such a knave.

He sung

Shakspeare.

Why contraries feed thunder in the cloud.
Cowley's Davideis.
Honour should be concern'd in honour's cause;
That is not to be cur'd by contraries,

As bodies are, whose health is often drawn From rankest poisons." Southern's Oroonoka. 2. A proposition contrary to some other; a fact contrary to the allegation.

The instances brought by our author are but slender proofs of a right to civil power and dominion in the first-born, and do rather shew the contrary. Locke.

3. On the CONTRARY. In opposition; on the other side.

He pleaded still not guilty; The king's attorney, on the contrary, Urg'd on examinations, proofs, confessions, Of diverse witnesses. Shaksp. Henry VIII. If justice stood on the side of the single person, it ought to give good men pleasure to see that right should take place; but when, on the contrary, the commonweal of a whole nation is overborn by private interest, what good man but must lament? Swift.

4. To the CONTRARY. To a contrary purpose; to an opposite intent.

They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary. Stilling fleet. To CONTRARY. v. a. [contrarier, Fr.] To oppose; to thwart; to contradict. When came to court, I was advised not to contrary the king. Latimer. Finding in him the force of it, he would no further contrary it, but employ all his service to medicine it. Sidney. CONTRAST. n. s. [contraste, French.] Opposition and dissimilitude of figures, by which one contributes to the visibi lity or effect of another.

To CONTRA'ST. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To place in opposition, so that one
figure shows another to advantage.
2. To show another figure to advantage
by its colour or situation.

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The apostle's advice, to be angry and sin not, was a contradiction in their philosophy. South. If truth be once perceived, we do thereby also perceive whatsoever is false in contradiction to it. Grew's Cosmologia. 4. Contrariety, in thought or effect. All contradictions grow in those minds, which neither absolutely climb the rock of virtue, nor freely sink into the sea of vanity. Sidney.

Laws human must be made without contradiction unto any positive law in scripture. Hooker. CONTRADICTIOUS. adj. [from contradict.]

1. Filled with contradictions; inconsistent.

The rules of decency, of government, of justice itself, are so different in one place from what they are in another, so party-coloured and contradictious, that one would think the species of men altered according to their climates. Collier. 2. Inclined to contradict; given to cavil. 3. Opposite to; inconsistent with.

Where the act is unmanly, and the expectation immoral, or contradictious to the attributes of God, our hopes we ought never to entertain. Collier.

CONTRADICTIOUSNESS. n. s. (from contradictious.]

1. Inconsistency; contrariety to itself.

This opinion was, for its absurdity and contra dictiousness, unworthy of the refined spirit of Plato. Norris.

2. Disposition to cavil; disputatious temper.

CONTRADICTORILY. adv. [from contradictory.] Inconsistently with himself; oppositely to others.

Such as have discoursed hereon, have so diversely, contrarily, or contradictorily, delivered themselves, that no affirmative from thence can be reasonably deduced. Brown. CONTRADICTORINESS. n. s. [from contradictory.] Opposition in the highest .. degree. Dict. CONTRADICTORY. adj. [contradictorius, Latin.]

1. Opposite to; inconsistent with.

The Jews hold, that in case two rabbies should happen to contradict one another, they were yet bound to believe the contradictory assertions of South's Sermons

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These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. CONTRAFI'SSURE. n. s. [from contra and fissure.]

Contusions, when great, do usually produce a fissure or crack of the scull: either in the same part where the blow was inflicted, and then it is called fissure; or in the contrary part, in which case it obtains the name of centrafissure. Wisen, T, CONTRAINDICATE. v. a. [contra and indico, Lat.] To point out some peculiar or incidental symptom or me thod of cure, contrary to what the ge neral tenour of the malady requires.

Vomits have their use in this malady; but the age and sex of the patient, or other urgent of contraindicating symptoms, must be observed. Harvey on Consumptioni. CONTRAINDICATION. ..s. from con traindicate.] An indication or symp tom, which forbids that to be done which the main scope of a disease points out at first. Quincy

I endeavour to give the most simple idea of the distemper, and the proper diet; abstracting from the complications of the first, or the controindi cations to the second.

Arbuthnot on Aliments.

CONTRAMU'RE. n. s. [contremur, Fr] In fortification, is an out-wall built about the main wall of a city. Chamb CONTRANITENCY. n. s. [from contra and nitens, Lat.] Reaction; a resistency Dict. against pressure. CONTRAPOSITION. n. s. [from contra and position.] A placing over against. CONTRAREGULARITY. n. s. [from car tra and regularity.] Contrariety to rule. It is not only its not promoting, but its op posing, or at least its natural aptness to oppose, the greatest and best of ends; so that it is not a properly an irregularity, as a centraregularity. Nerria CONTRARIANT. adj. [contrariant, from contrarier, French.]` Inconsistent; contradictory: a term of law. The very depositions of witnesses themselves being false, various, centrariant, single, inconclu CONTRARIES. n. s. [from contrary.] In Ayliffe's Parerga. logick, propositions which destroy each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.

dent.

If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree, no win is a tree. These can never be both true together, but they may be both false. Watts' Legio CONTRARIETY., J. [from contrarietas, Latin.]

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1. Repugnance; opposition.

The will about one and the same thing may, in contrary respects, have contrary inclinations, Hooker.

and that without contrariety.

He which will perfectly recover a sick, and restore a diseased, body unto health, must not endeavour so much to bring it to a state of simple contrariety, as of fit proportion in contrariety, unto those evils which are to be cured. Hooker. Making a contrariety the place of my memory, in her foulness I beheld Pamela's fairness; still looking on Mopsa, but thinking on Pamela. Sidney It principally failed by late setting out, and by Wotton. Some contrariety of weather at sea.

Their religion had more than negative contrariety to virtue. Decay of Piety. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that enterSouth. tain the senses. These two interests, it is to be feared, cannot be divided; but they will also prove opposite, and, not resting in a bare diversity, quickly rise South. into a contrariety.

There is nothing more common than contrariety of opinions; nothing more obvious than that one man wholly disbelieves what another only doubts of, and a third stedfastly believes and firmly adheres to.

Locke.

2. Inconsistency; quality or position de-
structive of its opposite.

He will be here, and yet he is not here;
How can these contrarieties agree? Shakspeare.
CONTRARILY. adv. [from contrary.]
1. In a manner contrary.

Many of them conspire to one and the same action, and all this contrarily to the laws of specifick gravity, in whatever posture the body be formed. Ray on the Creation. 2. Different ways; in different directions. Though all men desire happiness, yet their wills carry them so contrarily, and consequently some of them do what is evil. CONTRARINESS. n. s. [from contrary.] Contrariety; opposition. CONTRARIOus. adj. [from contrary.] Opposite; repugnant one to the other. God of our fathers, what

man!

Locke.

Dict.

That thou towards him, with hand so various, Or might I say contrarious, Temper'st thy providence through his short Milton. course? CONTRARIOUSLY. adv. [from contrarious.] Oppositely; contrarily.

Many things, having full reference

To one consent, may work contrariously. Shaks. CONTRAʼRIWISE. adv. [contrary and avise.]

1. Conversely.

Divers medicines in greater quantity move stool, and in smaller urine; and so, contrariwise, some in greater quantity move urine, and in Bacon's Nat. Hist. smaller stool.

Every thing that acts upon the fluids, must at the same time act upon the solids; and contraArbuthnot on Aliments. riwise.

2. Oppositely.

The matter of faith is constant; the matter, contrariwise, of actions, daily changeable.

Hooker. This request was never before made by any other lords; but, contrariwise, they were humble suitors to have the benefit and protection of Davies en Ireland, the English laws.

The sun may set and rise, But we, contrariwise,

Raleigh.

Sleep, after our short light, One everlasting night. CONTRARY. adj. [contrarius, Latin] 1. Opposite; contradictory; not simply different, or not alike, but repugnant, so that one destroys or obstructs the other.

Perhaps some thing, repugnant to her kind, By strong antipathy the soul may kill; But what can be contrary to the mind, Which holds all contraries in concord still? Davies.

2. Inconsistent; disagreeing.

He that believes it, and yet lives contrary to it, knows that he hath no reason for what he does. Tillotson.

The various and contrary choices that men make in the world, do not argue that they do not all pursue good; but that the same thing is Locke. not good to every man alike.

3. Adverse; in an opposite direction.

The ship was in the midst of the sea, tossed with the waves; for the wind was contrary.

Matthew. CONTRARY. n. s. [from the adjective.] 1. A thing of opposite qualities. No contraries hold more antipathy, Than I and such a knave. He sung

2.

Shakspeare.

Why contraries feed thunder in the cloud.
Cowley's Davideis.
Honour should be concern'd in honour's cause;
That is not to be cur'd by contraries,
As bodies are, whose health is often drawn
From rankest poisons. Southern's Oroonoko.
A proposition contrary to some other;
a fact contrary to the allegation.

The instances brought by our author are but slender proofs of a right to civil power and dominion in the first-born, and do rather shew the contrary. Locke.

3. On the CONTRARY. In opposition; on the other side.

He pleaded still not guilty; The king's attorney, on the contrary, Urg'd on examinations, proofs, confessions, Of diverse witnesses. Shaksp. Henry VIII. If justice stood on the side of the single person, it ought to give good men pleasure to see that right should take place; but when, on the contrary, the commonweal of a whole nation is overborn by private interest, what good man but must lament? Swift.

4. To the CONTRARY. To a contrary purpose; to an opposite intent.

They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary. Stilling fleet. To CONTRARY. v. a. [contrarier, Fr.] To oppose; to thwart; to contradict. When I came to court, I was advised not to Latimer. contrary the king. Finding in him the force of it, he would no further contrary it, but employ all his service to medicine it. Sidney. CONTRAST. n. s. [contraste, French.] Opposition and dissimilitude of figures, by which one contributes to the visibi lity or effect of another.

To CONTRA'ST. v. a. [from the noun.]
1. To place in opposition, so that one
figure shows another to advantage.
2. To show another figure to advantage
by its colour or situation.

The figures of the groups must not be all on
UU2

side, that is, with their faces and bodies all turned the same way: but must contrast each other by their several positions. Dryden. CONTRAVALLA'TION. n. s. [from contra and vallo, Latin.] The fortification thrown up by the besiegers, round a city, to hinder the sallies of the garri

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When the late czar of Muscovy first acquainted himself with mathematical learning, he practised all the rules of circumvallation and contravallation at the siege of a town in Livonia. Watts. To CONTRAVE'NE. v. a. [contra and venio, Lat.] To oppose; to obstruct; to baffle. CONTRAVE'NER. n. s. [from contravene.] He who opposes another. CONTRAVENTION. n.s. [French.] Òpposition.

If christianity did not lend its name to stand in the gap, and to employ or divert these hu mours, they must of necessity be spent in contraventions to the laws of the land. Swift. CONTRAYE'RVA. n. s. [contra, against, and yerva, a name by which the Spaniards call black hellebore; and, perhaps, sometimes poison in general.] A species of birthwort growing in Jamaica, where it is much used as an alexipharmick. Miller. CONTRECTATION, n. s. [contrectatio, Lat.] A touching or handling. Dict. CONTRIBUTARY. adj. [from con and tributary.] Paying tribute to the same sovereign.

Thus we are engaged in the objects of geometry and arithmetick; yea, the whole mathematicks must be contributary, and to them all nature pays a subsidy. Glanville's Scepsis. To CONTRIBUTE. v. a. (contribuo, Latin] To give to some common stock; to advance toward some common design.

England contributes much more than any other of the allies. Addison on the War. His master contributed a great sum of money to the Jesuits church, which is not yet quite finished. Addison on Italy. To CONTRIBUTE. v. n. To bear a part; to have a share in any act or effect.

Whatever praises may be given to works of judgment, there is not even a single beauty in them to which the invention must not contribute. Pope's Essay on Homer. CONTRIBUTION. n.s. [from contribute.] 1. The act of promoting some design in conjunction with other persons. 2. That which is given by several hands for some common purpose.

It hath pled them of Macedonia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints. Rom. Parents owe their children not only material Bubsistence for their body, but much more spiDigby. itual contributions for their mind. Beggars are now maintained by voluntary con Graunt's Bills of Mortality. tributions. 3. That which is paid for the support of an army lying in a country.

The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground
Do stand but in a forc'd affection;
For they have grudg'd us contribution. Shaks.
CONTRIBUTIVE. adj. [from contribute.]
That has the power or quality of pro-

moting any purpose in concurrence with other motives.

As the value of the promises renders ther most proper incentives to virtue, so the manner of proposing we shall find also highly contrition to the same end. Decay of Piety. CONTRIBUTOR. n. s. [from contribute.] One that bears a part in some common design; one that helps forward, or exerts his endeavours to some end, in conjunction with others.

I promis'd we would be contributers;
And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe'cr.

Shakspeart.

A grand contributor to our dissentions is pas sion. Decay of Picty. Art thou a true lover of thy country? zealous for its religious and civil liberties, and a chearful contributor to all those public expences which have been thought necessary to secure them?

Atterbury.

The whole people were witnesses to the building of the ark and tabernacle; they were all Forbes. contributers to it.

CONTRIBUTORY. adj. [from contribute } Promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock.

To CONTRI’STATE. v. a. [contrista, Latin.] To sadden; to make sorrow. ful; to make melancholy. Not used.

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Blackness and darkness are but privatives, and therefore have little or no activity: somewhat they do contristate, but very little. CONTRISTATION. n.s. [from contristate.] The act of making sad; the state of being made sad; sorrow; heaviness of heart; sadness; sorrowfulness; gloominess; grief; moan; mournfulness; trouble; discontent; melancholy. Not used.

Incense and nidorous smells, such as were of sacrifices, were thought to intoxicate the brain, and to dispose men to devotion; which they may do by a kind of sadness and contristation of the spirits, and partly also by heating and exalt ing them. Bacon's Nat. Hist.

CONTRITE. adj. [contritus, Latin.]

1. Bruised; much worn.

2. Worn with sorrow; harassed with the sense of guilt; penitent. In the books of divines, contrite is sorrowful for sin, from the love of God and desire of pleasing him; and attrite is sorrowfel for sin, from the fear of punishment. I Richard's body have interred now; And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears, Than from it issued forced drops of blood. Shakspeare's Henry

With tears

Wat'ring the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek.

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