v. [f. L. contrāpōnĕre, with substitution of -pose for -pone: see COMPOSE, REPOSE.] trans. To set in opposition, or over against each other. Hence Contraposed ppl. a.
1617. Salkeld, Treat. Paradise, 235 (L.). We may manifestly see contraposed death and life.
1620. Shelton, Quix., III. xxix. 204. The Equinoctial Line, which divides and cuts the two contrapos’d Poles in equal Distance.
2. Logic. = CONTRAPONE.
