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Definition of Contrarious

Contrarious
Contrarious Con*tra"ri*ous, a. [LL. contrariosus: cf. OF. contrarios contralius.] Showing contrariety; repugnant; perverse. [Archaic] --Milton. She flew contrarious in the face of God. --Mrs. Browning.

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- of a wanton time, The seeming sufferances that you had borne, And the contrarious winds that held the King So long in his unlucky Irish wars That all in...
- nation, or citie, is repugnant to nature, contumelie to God, a thing most contrarious to his reueled will and approued ordinance, and finallie it is the subuersion...
- news, and worried about the "longer protracting of time" and the "contrariousness of winds". While waiting for his bride at Seton Palace, James VI may...
- authorities during his period of residence (prematurely cut short) was both contrarious and phenomenal. He was one of the nicest of men, in certain moods content...
- whether that we have done anything prejudicial to our commonwealth or yet contrarious unto that debtful obedience which true subjects owe to their superiors...
- news, and worried about the "longer protracting of time" and the "contrariousness of winds". Marischal took a lead role in discussions at Flekkerøy and...
- 11 October 1589 British Library MS Cotton Caligula D. I. f. 273 Scottish newsletter referring to "storme and contrarious wyndis" forwarded by Asheby...
- James VI had already made his decision. On account of the "sundrie contrarious windis" that dela**** the Danish fleet, on 11 October James VI asked East...