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The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. [Obs.] In strifeful terms with him to balk. Spenser.

To vote for or in opposition to. None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden.

pated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.

etals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena.

y an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc. Bouvier.

One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. Gibbon.

To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.

A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature. [Obs.]

Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.

a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.

To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.

he act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.