adv. [f. CONTRADICTORY + -LY2.]
1. In a way that contradicts or involves contradiction; in contradictory terms.
1605. T. Hutten, Reas. Refusal, 88. Contradictorily fight with the expresse oracles of scripture.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VII. xv. 369. As for the story men deliver it variously … divers contradictorily, or contrarily, quite overthrowing the point.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist., IV. VIII. 154. Having acted so contradictorily to the fundamental laws of Sparta.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 356. Warton certainly has hastily and contradictorily censured Heywood.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, Charac., Wks. II. 57. They are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic, and stubborn—and as mild, sweet, and sensible.
2. Logic. With contradictory opposition.
1678. Norris, Coll. Misc. (1699), 302. Not contradictorily or privatively, but contrarily opposed to it.
1837–8. Sir W. Hamilton, Logic, xvii. (1866), I. 331. The case in which the members of disjunction are contradictorily opposed.
