a. Also 7 contre-. [CONTRA- 2.] Opposed to what is natural; contrary to nature.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter i. 9. It is contranatural and execrable for a son to slay his father.
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., Ep. Ded. A contre-naturall Dissolution.
1827. Hare, Guesses (1859), 50. Their actions are supernatural, but not unnatural or contranatural.
1872. W. G. Ward, Ess. Theism (1884), I. 113. His own most narrow and contra-natural theory [of morality].
