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lids, and contrariwife. Arbuthnpt. —Oppofitsly.—-The mat¬ 
ter of faith is condant; the matter, contrariwife, of ac¬ 
tions, daily changeable. Hooker. 
The fun may fet and rife : 
But we, contrariwife , 
Sleep, after our Ihort light, 
One everlading night. Raleigh. 
CON'TRARY, adj. [contrarius, Lat.] Oppofite; con¬ 
tradictory ; not limply different, or not alike, but re¬ 
pugnant, fo that one deltroys or obdrufts the other : 
Perhaps fome thing, repugnant to her kind, 
By ftrong antipathy the foul may kill ; 
But what can be contrary to the mind, 
Which holds all contraries in concord ltill ? Davies. 
Inconfiftent; aifagreeing.—He that believes it, and yet 
lives contrary to it, knows that he hath no reafon for 
vvhat he does. Tillotfon. —The various and contrary choices 
that men make in the world, do not argue that they do 
not all purlue good ; but that the fame thing is not good 
to every man alike. Locke. —Adverfe ; in an oppofite di¬ 
rection.—The lliip was in the midft of the fea, tolled 
with the waves ; for the wind was contrary. Mattk. xiv. 24. 
—[Sometimes accented by Spenfer on the fecond lylia¬ 
ble.]—Though of contrary natures each to other. Spenfer. 
CONTRA'RY, adv. Contrariwife : 
There was I found, contrary to my thought, 
Of this accurfed carle. Spenfer4 ' 
CON'TRARY, f. A thing of oppofite qualities.-- 
Contraries feed thunder in the cloud. Cowley. 
Honour Ihould be concern’d in honour’s caufe ; 
That is not to be cur’d by contraries, 
As bodies are, whofe health is often drawn 
From ranked poifons. Southern. 
A propolition contrary to fome other; a faft contrary to 
the allegation.—The inftances brought are but flender 
proofs of a right to civil power and domination in the 
lirlt-born, and do rather Ihew the contrary. Locke. 
On the Contrary. In oppofition; on the other 
fide.-—If jufiice dood on the fide of the fingle perfon, 
it ought to give good men pleafure to fee that right Ihould 
take place ; but when, on the contrary, the commonweal 
of a whole nation is overborn by private intered, what 
good man but mud lament ? Swift. 
To the Contrary, To a contrary purpofe ; to an 
oppofite intent.—They did it, not for want of indruCtion 
to the contrary. Stillingfeet. 
To CON'TRARY, v. a. [ contrarier, Fr.] To oppofe ; 
to thwart; to contradift.—When I came to court, I was 
advifed not to contrary the king. Latimer. 
CONTRAST, f. [contrafie, Fr.] Oppofition and dif- 
fimilitude of figures, by which one contributes to the vi¬ 
sibility or effeft of another. 
To CONTRA'ST, v. a. To place in oppofition, fo that 
one figure Shews another to advantage.—To Ihew ano¬ 
ther figure to advantage by its colour or fituation.'—The 
figures of the groups mud not be all on a fide, that is, 
with their faces and bodies all turned the fame way; 
but mud coiitrajl each other by their feveral politions. Dryd. 
CONTRAVALLA'f ION, J'. [from contra and vallo, 
Lat.] In fortification, atrench, guarded with a parapet; 
being made by the befiegers, between them and the place 
befieged, to fecure themfelves on that fide, and dop the 
[allies of thegarrifon. It is made without mulket-fhot 
of the town ; fometimes going quite round it, and fome- 
times not, as occalion may require. The befiegers lie 
between the lines of circumvallation and contravallation : 
but it is now feldom ufed. 
To CONTRAVE'NE, v. a. [contra andvenio, Lat.] To 
«ppofc ; to obftruft ; to baffle. 
CONTRAVE'NER, /'. He who oppofes another, 
CON 
CONTRAVENTION,/ [Fr. ] Oppofition.—If Chris¬ 
tianity did not lend its name to Hand in the gap, and to 
employ or divert thefe humours, they mult of necellity 
be fpent in contraventions to the laws of the land. Swift.. 
CONTR A VER'SION, / [from contra and verfio, Lat.] 
A turning to the oppofite fide.—The fecond danza was 
called the antidrophe from the conlraverfiim of the chorus ; 
the fingers, in performing that, turning from the left 
hand to the right. Congreve. 
CONTR AYER'VA,/. [contra, againd, and yerva, a 
name by which the Spaniards call black hellebore ; and, 
perhaps, fometimes poifon in general.] In botany, a 
fpecies of Dorstenia, which fee. The leaves of this 
plant are faid to afford a poifon, employed by the Indians 
for poifoning their arrows; and to which poifon the 
root of the fame plant is faid to be an antidote. 
CONTRECTA'TION,/ [contreftatio, Lat.] A touch¬ 
ing or handling. 
CONTRE'KI, a totvn of Arabia: 180 miles fouth of 
Mafcat. 
CON'TRES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Loir and Cher, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of St. Aignan: ten miles fouth of Blois. 
CONTRI'BUTARY,<z/'.[froin aw,Lat. and tributary. 
Paying tribute to the fame fovereign.—Thus we are en¬ 
gaged in the objects of geometry and arithmetic ; yea, 
the whole mathematics mud be contributary , and to them 
all nature pays a fublidy. Glanville. 
To CONTRI'BUTE, v. a. [contribuo, Lat.] Togiveto 
fome common dock; to advance towards fome common 
dedgn.—England contributes much more than any other of 
the allies. Addfon. 
To CONTRI'BUTE, v.n. To bear a part ; to have a 
fiiare in any aft or effeft.—Whatever praifes may be 
given to works of judgment, there is not even a fingle 
beauty in them to which the invention mud not contri¬ 
bute. Pope. 
CONTRIBUTION, / The aft of promoting fome 
defign in conjunftion with other perfons. That which 
is given by feveral hands for fome common purpofe.—It 
hath pleafed them of Macedonia to make a certain contri¬ 
bution for the poor. Rom. xv. 26.—Parents owe their chil¬ 
dren not only material fubfidence for their body, but 
much more lpiritual contributions for their mind. Digby. —■ 
That which is paid for the fupport of an army lying in a 
country 
The people ’twixt Philippi and this ground 
Do dand but in a forc’d affeftion; 
For they have grudg’d us contribution. Shakefpeare. 
CONTRIBUTION, in law, is where parties are 
bound to pay their {hare, or contribute their part. One 
parcener {hall have contribution againd another; one 
heir have contribution againd another heir, in equal de¬ 
gree; and one purchafer lhall have contribution againd 
another. Alfo conufors in a datute {hall be equally 
charged, and not one of them folely extended. 3 Rep. 13. 
On a datute or recognifance, there is a contribution and 
day till the full age of the heir; and this extends to the 
leflfee for life or years of the conufor, who has part of 
the land liable, and the heir within age the refidue ; for 
the land of every one of them ought to be charged 
equally, becaufe the whole is liable to the judgment ; 
and this cannot be, if during the nonage the burden 
{hall fall upon one only. Jcnk. Cent. 36. If lands are 
mortgaged, and then devifed to one perfon for life, with 
remainder to another ; both devifees lhall make contri¬ 
bution to payment of the mortgage-money. Chan. Caf. 
224. See the article Mortgage. Where goods are cad 
into the fea, for the fafe-guard of a lhip, or other goods 
on-board, in a temped ; there is a contribution among mer¬ 
chants, towards the lofs of the owners. See Insurance. 
And where a robbery is committed on the highway, and 
damages are recovered againd one or a few perlons, in an 
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