CONTRARY

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1. 1. A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities. No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. Shak.
2. 2. An opponent; an enemy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. 3. the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.
4. 4. See Contraries. On the contrary, in opposition; on the other hand. Swift. -- To the contrary, to an opposite purpose or intent; on the other side. "They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary." Bp. Stillingfleet.