CONTUMACIOUS

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. There is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond.

2.
a.

Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone.