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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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- 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...
- 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...
- 2021. "Diplomatie – la vente de sous-marins américains à l'Australie contrarie". Le Matin. 16 September 2021. Archived from the original on 17 September...
- 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...
- 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...
- Retrieved 12 May 2022. "Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et l'Afrique: un amour contrarié". Le Point (in French). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2022. "François...
- behind the venture the right to establish laws for their settlement "not contrarie to the lawes of our realm in England" and to administer "lawfull correction"...
- 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...
- a straunger and forsaken their faith and obedience contrarie to nature or religion; and contrarie to that humane and generall honour not onely of Christians...
- repealing all Actes of Pliament and Sentences of Divorce hadd and made to the contrarie. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 62)) First...