adv. [f. CONTRARY a. + -LY2. As to pronunciation, see CONTRARIWISE.]
1. In a contrary manner, in direct opposition; to the contrary, contrariwise.
[1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 940. Ho sey contraly, I cast heym In cares cold.]
1570. B. Googe, Pop. Kingd., II. (1880), 23. And makes of euery Devill God, contrarily to seeme.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 157. He thinks it crept in among other corruptions: I think contrarily.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 218. As if there were two Gods, contrarily minded to one another.
1779–81. Johnson, L. P., Thomson. Why the dedications are … contrarily to custom, left out.
1875. F. Hall, in N. Y. Nation, xxi. 339/2. Will any one who recollects his oratory testify contrarily?
2. On the other hand, on the contrary, conversely.
c. 1540. Boorde, Boke for to Lerne, A iv a. And contraryly euyll and corrupt ayers doth infecte the blode.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., To Rdr. Illustrated for their Vertues … or contrarily branded for their Vices.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. III. viii. 9. Contrarily such Coasts as are least supplied with Rivers or Lakes have the weakest Tides.
1860. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., V. 293. Whom the Venetians, we saw, despised, whom, contrarily, Turner loved.
3. In the contrary way; vice versâ.
1656. Ridley, Pract. Physick, 55. A hot Liver, a cold Brain … and so contrarily.
¶ Per contrarily (nonce-wd.): see PER CONTRA.
1687. in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), 197. You have per contrarily refus’d.
