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Contradict v. t. (past & past part. contradicted; pres. part. contradicting)

To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn. "Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so." "The future can not contradict the past."

To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. (Obs.) "No truth can contradict another truth." "A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents."

Contradict v. i. To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something. "They... spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming."

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... article in No. 6. p. 86., which deprived Charles Martel of his long-possessed distinction of "the hammerer" gave me but little satisfaction. It was one of those old associations that one does not like to have destroyed. I could not, however, contradict your correspondents; and remained that very uncomfortable person, "a man convinced against his will." On turning over my Menagiana, yesterday, I stumbled upon the name "Martel," and, as the passage combines both your elements (being a good note, ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 18. Saturday, March 2, 1850 • Various

... Highness is at a loss what to do in order that he may ensure the safety of the Colonel Sahib and his followers," the Diwan continued pensively. "I will not repeat what has been already said," and at once he began at interminable length to contradict his words. He repeated the proposals of surrender made by Wafadar Nazim from beginning to end. The Colonel Sahib was to march out of the fort with his troops, and his Highness would himself conduct him ...

— The Broken Road • A. E. W. Mason

... obvious its meaning may really be." Horne's Introduct., vol. 2, p. 265, edit. of 1860. This language is not too strong. It is by a neglect or perversion of the scope that the meaning of the inspired writers is perverted, and they are made to contradict one another. ...

— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... flushed and subsided. Never again, she realized, could she contradict aspersions cast on Levine's character. And yet, how like a bad dream the episode of last night seemed. If only it had ...

— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... Scaliger known it to be surreptitious, no doubt but he would have remarked it; and then there had been some Colour for the Gloss. But 'tis unworthy to be believed of Aristotle, who was so wary and cautious, that he should in so short a passage, contradict himself: and after he had so positively affirmed the Truth of it, presently doubt it. His [Greek: hosper legetai] therefore must have a Reference to what follows, Pusillum genus, ut aiunt, ipsi atque etiam Equi, ...

— A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients • Edward Tyson

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