a. Obs. [f. L. contrādictōri-us CONTRADICTORY + -OUS.]

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  1.  Opposite; = CONTRARY 5.

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1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), II. 179. What distaunce is betwene cenit of oure hedde and a poynte contradictorious to hit in heuyn.

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  2.  = CONTRADICTORY.

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1608.  T. James, Apol. Wyclif, 20. Their Bibles authorized are … contrarious, and contradictorious the one vnto the other.

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1649.  in St. Trials, Lt.-Col. Lilburne (R.). This is therefore a contradictorious humour in you.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., xiv. 163. That … is the true Catholick Church … which has … the Laws and Usages of Christ and his Apostles, and nothing contradictorious thereunto.

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  Hence Contradictoriously adv., contradictorily.

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1647.  H. More, Song of Soul, IV. xiv. One soul in both doth thus Philosophise, Concludes at once contradictoriously To her own self.

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