Logic. [f. next: see CONTRARIETY.] The relation existing between subcontrary propositions.
1697. trans. Burgersdicius his Logic, I. xxxiii. Subcontrariety is between two Particulars; Opposition Indefinite between two Infinites.
1864. Bowen, Logic, vi. 162. It was convenient for Logicians to consider the relations of Subalternation and Sub-Contrariety.