contrapose

American  

[kon-truh-pohz] / ˈkɒn trəˌpoʊz /

verb (used with object)

contraposed, contraposing

1. to place in contraposition.

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Etymology

Origin of contrapose

1610–20; back formation from contraposed < Latin contrāpositus, past participle of contrāpōnere to place against, with -ed ² for Latin -itus past participle suffix

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

contrapose contraposed

We should be glad to reproduce it here, by way of contrapose to our own accompanying poem, but cannot now recall it to memory in its completeness.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

"Good fences make good neighbors." he said, and many a listener never noticed that he contraposed this with: "Something there is that does not love a wall."

From Time Magazine Archive

The right lobe of his liver is on the left side, the left on his right; while his lungs, too, are similarly contraposed.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Here is a cognizance of law and deference before its claims that is curiously composite, if not complex, or even innerly contraposed.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.

He was a man nicely conscientious, and now all the elaborate devices of his honour, which had persuaded him to a disagreeable interference, were contraposed against him.

From The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons by Symons, Arthur

The endeavour to apply the law of authority, the placitum, the dogma, to different and sometimes contraposed practical necessities, is what has engendered the scepticism of doubt.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)