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f a contradiction can not possibly be true. Hobbes. Of contradictions infinite the slave. Wordsworth. Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and an…

contrariety of qualities. place the prospect of the soul In sober contrast with reality. Wordsworth.

To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

rying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. [Obs.] "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth (1559).

olloq.] They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different. Addison.

The word which unites the subject and predicate.

The expansion of the guard of a sword, dagger, etc.

on in grain fields. -- Corn flag (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also sword lily. -- Corn fly. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fly which, in the larval state, is injurious to grain, living in the stalk, and causing the disease called "gout," on account of the swelled joints. The common European species is Chlor…

a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown. Without a star, a coronet, or garter. Goldsmith.

, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.

To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit; to answer; -- followed by to. Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther. Locke.

of our fairies. Shak. The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture. I. Taylor.

advise or recommend, as an act or course. They who counsel war. Milton. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reson's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton.

aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place. -Counter parole (Mil.), a word in addition to the password, given in time of alarm as a signal. -- Counter plea (Law), a replication to a plea. Cowell. -- Counter pressure, force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction to some other opposing pressu…

tion; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.