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Contrary :: Contrary (n.) An opponent; an enemy.

Non Obstante :: Non obstante () A clause in old English statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the crown to do a thing notwithstanding any statute to the contrary. This dispensing power was abolished by the Bill of Rights..

Subcontrary :: Subcontrary (a.) Contrary in an inferior degree.

Barbarous :: Barbarous (a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) That which is directly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite.

Counterplead :: Counterplead (v. t.) To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

Ugly :: Ugly (superl.) Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

Obrogate :: Obrogate (v. t.) To annul indirectly by enacting a new and contrary law, instead of by expressly abrogating or repealing the old one..

Else :: Else (adv. & conj.) Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different..

Contrarotation :: Contrarotation (n.) Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

Estoppel :: Estoppel (n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission..

Countermand :: Countermand (n.) A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

Dehorter :: Dehorter (n.) A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary.

Perverse :: Perverse (a.) Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary..

Conversion :: Conversion (n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary..

Malpractice :: Malpractice (n.) Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results..

Discrepant :: Discrepant (a.) Discordant; at variance; disagreeing; contrary; different.

Cata :: Cata () The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic..

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver..

Fool :: Fool (n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

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