contrarious
Americanadjective
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Chiefly Appalachian. perverse; refractory.
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Archaic. adverse; unfavorable.
adjective
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(of people or animals) perverse or obstinate
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(of conditions) unfavourable
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Etymology
Origin of contrarious
1250–1300; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin contrārius contrary; see -ous
Example Sentences
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And what greater absurditie can there bee, then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases?
From A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco by Edmund Goldsmid
The word of God is plain in itself; and if there appear any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost, who is never contrarious to Himself, explains the same more clearly in other places.'
From John Knox by A. Taylor Innes
Say worthie Doctours & Clerkes curious, What moneth you of bookes to have such number, Since diuers doctrines through way contrarious, Doth man's minde distract and sore encomber.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather
Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious guests Upon thy doings!
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
And therefore thei maken ymages lyche to tho thinges, that thei han beleeve inne, for to beholden hem and worschipen hem first at morwe, or thei meeten ony contrarious thinges.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
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