Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-TRA-DIC'TION-AL, a.

Inconsistent. [Not in use.] – Milton.

CON-TRA-DIC'TIOUS, a.

1. Filled with contradictions; inconsistent. Collier.
2. Inclined to contradict; disposed to deny or cavil.
3. Opposite; inconsistent.

CON-TRA-DIC'TIOUS-NESS, n.

1. Inconsistency; contrariety to itself. Norris.
2. Disposition to contradict or cavil.

CON-TRA-DICT'IVE, a.

Containing contradiction.

CON-TRA-DICT'IVE-LY, adv.

By contradiction.

CON-TRA-DICT'O-RI-LY, adv.

In a contradictory manner; in a manner inconsistent with itself, or opposite to others. – Brown.

CON-TRA-DICT'O-RI-NESS, n.

Direct opposition; contrariety in assertion or effect. – Baxter.

CON-TRA-DICT'O-RY, a.

1. Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; as, contradictory assertions.
2. Inconsistent; opposite; contrary; as, contradictory schemes.

CON-TRA-DICT'O-RY, n.

A proposition which denies or opposes another in all its terms; contrariety; inconsistency. It is common with princes to will contradictories. – Bacon.

CON-TRA-DIS-TINCT', a.

Distinguished by opposite qualities. – Smith.

CON-TRA-DIS-TINC'TION, n. [contra and distinction.]

Distinction by opposite qualities. We speak of sins of infirmity, in contradistinction to those of presumption. South.

CON-TRA-DIS-TINC'TIVE, a.

Distinguishing by opposites. – Harris.

CON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH, v.t. [contra and distinguish.]

To distinguish not merely by differential, but by opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. – Locke.

CON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH-ED, pp.

Distinguished by opposites.

CON-TRA-DIS-TIN'GUISH-ING, ppr.

Distinguishing by opposites.

CON-TRA-FIS'SURE, n. [contra and fissure.]

In surgery, a fissure or fracture in the cranium, on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it. – Coxe. Encyc.

CON-TRA-IN'DI-CANT, n.

A symptom that forbids to treat a disorder in the usual way. – Burke.

CON-TRA-IN'DI-CATE, v.t. [contra and indicate.]

In medicine, to indicate some method of cure, contrary to that which the general tenor of the disease requires; or to forbid that to be done which the main scope of the malady paints out. – Harvey. Encyc.

CON-TRA-IN'DI-CA-TED, pp.

Indicating a method contrary to the usual one.

CON-TRA-IN'DI-CA-TING, ppr.

Indicating a contrary method of cure.

CON-TRA-IN-DI-CA'TION, n.

An indication from some peculiar symptom or fact, that forbids the method of cure which the main symptoms or nature of the disease requires. – Arbuthnot.

CON-TRAL'TO, n. [It.]

In music, the alto, or counter tenor.

CON'TRA-MURE, n.

An out wall. [See Countermure.]

CON-TRA-NAT'U-RAL, a.

Opposite to nature. [Little used.] – Bp. Rust.

CON-TRA-NI'TEN-CY, n. [L. contra and nitor, to strive.]

Reaction; resistance to force.