rare–1. [ad. L. type contrāversiōn-em, n. of action f. contrāversus: see CONTRAVERSE.] A turning in the opposite direction.
a. 1729. Congreve, Disc. Pindaric Ode, Wks. 1753, III. 341. The second stanza was called the antistrophe, from the contraversion of the chorus; the singers, in performing that, turning from the left hand to the right contrary always to their motion in the strophe.
