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Webster 1913 Edition
Contradict
Conˊtra-dict′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Contradicted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Contradicting
.] 1.
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,
And say it is not so.
contradict
thyself,And say it is not so.
Shakespeare
The future can not
contradict
the past. Wordsworth.
2.
To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
[Obs.]
No truth can
contradict
another truth. Hooker.
A greater power than we can
Hath thwarted our intents.
contradict
Hath thwarted our intents.
Shakespeare
Conˊtra-dict
,Verb.
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. Acts xiii. 45.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contradict
CONTRADICT
,Verb.
T.
1.
To oppose by words; to assert the contrary to what has been asserted, or to deny what has been affirmed.It is not lawful to contradict a point of history known to all the world.
The Jews--spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts 13.
2.
To oppose; to be directly contrary to.No truth can contradict another truth.
Definition 2024
contradict
contradict
English
Verb
contradict (third-person singular simple present contradicts, present participle contradicting, simple past and past participle contradicted)
- (obsolete) To speak against; to forbid.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 203:
- […] magic hath been publically professed in former times, in Salamanca, Cracovia, and other places, though after censured by several universities, and now generally contradicted, though practised by some still […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 203:
- To deny the truth of (a statement or statements).
- His testimony contradicts hers.
- To make a statement denying the truth of the statement(s) made by (a person).
- Everything he says contradicts me.
- Shakespeare
- Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, / And say it is not so.
- Wordsworth
- The future cannot contradict the past.
- To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
- Hooker
- No truth can contradict another truth.
- Shakespeare
- A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.
- Hooker
Synonyms
Translations
deny the truth of (a statement or statements)
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deny the truth of statements made by (a person)
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to be contrary to
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