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Contraries
Contraries Con"tra*ries (? or ?; 48), n. pl. [Pl. of Contrary, n.] (Logic) Propositions which directly and destructively contradict 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 vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false. --I. Watts.
Contraries
Contrary Con"tra*ry, n.; pl. Contraries. 1. A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities. No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. --Shak. 2. An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. --Locke. 4. (Logic) See Contraries. On the contrary, in opposition; on the other hand. --Swift. To the contrary, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the other side. ``They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary.' --Bp. Stillingfleet.
Subcontraries
Subcontrary Sub*con"tra*ry, n.; pl. Subcontraries. (Logic) A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.

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- Nantes 2008 Battesti, Michèle (1998). La bataille d'Aboukir, 1798: Nelson contrarie la stratégie de Bonaparte. Paris: Economica. pp. 67–74. ISBN 2-7178-3740-X...
- verie enimies to their takers in deed if they were suffered to live, contrarie to his accustomed gentleness, commended by sound of trumpet, that everie...
- and I hope will yield to conformitie. But the Papistes are opposite and contrarie in very many substantiall pointes of religion, and cannot but wishe the...
- 2021. "Diplomatie – la vente de sous-marins américains à l'Australie contrarie". Le Matin. 16 September 2021. Archived from the original on 17 September...
- . Mais votre douce domination Domine Mon cœur si durement Qu'elle le contrarie Et le lie En amour grandement Qu'il n'a d’autre envie Que d’être en votre...
- 2024-07-08. MARTIN, Jean-François (2024-07-09). "Sarah El Haïry, un avenir contrarié après sa défaite". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-07-13....
- Serpent, linguam bisulcam, a forked tongue, to speake that, which was contrarie to his knowledge and meaning, They should not die; and as he did the Serpent's...
- p****ed away Martin Chevallaz, politicien à contre-courant et militaire contrarié (in French) Thom Christopher, 'One Life to Live' Actor, Dies at 84 Galway...
- but there fees dwe and taxed by the lawe. And yf anye officer doe the contrarie hearvn to y' the ptie greeved may have remedye by tras or false impsonment...
- des Galères; Jardin des étangs Gobert. L'avenue de Sceaux, un dessein contrarié.(in French) Domaine national : Petites Ecuries.(in French) Terrains en...