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contrarious, a. Now rare.|kənˈtrɛərɪəs|
Forms: 3– contrarious; also 4–5 -iose, 4– 6 -ius, -yus, -iouse, 5 -yows, 5–6 -yous.
[a. OF. contrarios, -ous, -us, -eus, ad. med.L. contrāriōsus, f. contrārius contrary; see -ous.]
†1. Of opposed character or tendency; contrary or repugnant (to, rarely from). Obs.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. (1866) 20 Bodely wyrkyngis..contrarious to the spirite in gostely wyrkynge. 1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 91 And frely forgith sentences contrarious to oure feith. 1534More On the Passion Introd. Wks. 1271/1 It should not haue left any place..for anye contrarious appetite or affeccion to enter. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke 190 a, Contrarious from. 1656Sanderson Serm. (1689) 313 What can be imagined more contrarious to true Christian liberty.
2. Mutually opposed, antagonistic; self-contradictory, inconsistent. ? Obs.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1591 Yhit has þe world..Ma other contrarius maneres. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 64 Moche wyne & sapience may not accorde, for they be in maner contrarious. a1542Wyatt Poems (title), Description of the contrarious passions in a lover. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. (1682) 479 Nine contrarious Tides: each Tide over-thwarting another. 1644Milton Divorce Wks. 1738 I. 200 The righteous and all-wise Judgments and Statutes of God..are not variable and contrarious. 1792D. Lloyd Voy. Life 21 Jarring sentiments, contrarious views. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. iii. ii. (1849) 186 How diverse, how contrarious is man!
†3. Of persons and their actions: Opposed in purpose, hostile. Obs. (This develops into 4.)
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 59/181 Laste þe pope were Contrarious a-ȝein is Ordre. a1300Cursor M. 14461 (Cott.) Þai [the Jews] war ful enwius, And to þaim-self contrarius. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 111 Takynge an hoste..ageyne the Wandalynges contrarious to hym. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xviii. xxxvi, I knowe..your frendes all Unto me sure wyll be contraryous. 1569Earl Murray in Harl. Lib. 37 B. 9 fo. 43 Her highness should not be contrarious to the marriage when it should be proposed to her.
4. Full of opposition; characterized by self-willed or refractory opposition; perverse.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxlvi. 11 Þe pride of contraryus men. c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 780 Thay ben so wicked and so contrarious, Thay haten that her housbondes loven ay. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 325 Ȝiffenge not contrarious wordes and answeres to their betters. 1578Psalm li. in Sc. Poems 16th C. II. 112 Full weill I knaw my wickednes, And sin contrarious. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 396 No leisure remained the King for his formall courting of so contrarious a Ladie. 1635Heywood Hierarch. iii. 155 Phœbe shall proue Contrarious to her Brother. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxii. (1860) 233/1 ‘Get about your business, ye contrarious rascal!’ 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vi. 653 She flew contrarious in the face of God With bat-wings of her vices.
5. Of things: Opposed to one's interests; adverse, prejudicial, untoward, unfavourable, harmful, hurtful; annoying, vexatious.
c1320Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1094 Hit mot bothe drink and ete Contrarius drink, contrarius mete. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 145 My sowlle suffereth pacyently wronges and contraryous thinges. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. li, It is more contrarious and hurtful than the Strangle weed..is to the Flax. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt 2 The bad-luck that sent contrarious seasons and the sheep-rot. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 1056 A bar Of adverse and contrarious incident.
b. esp. of winds, weather, etc.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 483 The wynde was contraryous that he myght haue noo passage. 1523Wolsey in Fiddes Life ii. (1726) 110 The Wether hath bine to him somwhat Stormy and Contrarious. a1712W. King Art of Love 108 And fill your sheets ev'n with contrarious wind. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 19 May she never send Contrarious blasts dark-lowering, to detain The Argive fleet.
†6. Opposite in place or position. rare.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 12 Lete him blood of þe contrarious arme. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 235 That ymage..hade the face of hit contrarious alleweyes to the body of the sonne. |