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; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

To kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.

A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not hear it. Waterland. At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton. Bain.…

Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency. Landor.

Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.

Inclined or tending to remonstrate; expostulatory; urging reasons in opposition to something.

To present and urge reasons in opposition to an act, measure, or any course of proceedings; to expostulate; as, to remonstrate with a person regarding his habits; to remonstrate against proposed taxation. It is proper business of a divine to state cases of conscience, and to remonstrate against any growing corruptions…

A meeting of two persons or bodies; a collision; especially, a meetingg in opposition or contest; a combat, action, or engagement. The justling chiefs in rude rencounter join. Granville.

To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like. That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. Dryden. Let t…

To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud. James iv. 6. Contrary to his high will Whom we resist. Milton.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.

Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or R.] Spenser.

Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.

To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.

To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love.

can scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. -- Se*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Se*di"tious*ness, n.