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To bestride.

A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.

to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn. Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself, And say it is not so. Shak. The future can not contradict the past. Wordsworth.

Capable of being contradicting.

one who contradicts. Swift.

tion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. Shak.

Contradictory; inconsistent; opposing. [R.] Milton.

Filled with contradictions; inconsistent. [Obs.]

Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..

A contradicter.

In a contradictory manner. Sharp.

The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency. J. Whitaker.

Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent. "Contradictory assertions." South.

Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.

Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.

having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast. -- Con`tra*dis*tinc"tive, n.

by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.

Toward the right side; dextrally.

throne; a platform; a dais. He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform. J. G. Fitch.

Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.