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Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

ual, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal. No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct. South.

In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.

to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex. They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker.

or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.

fficience; to counteract; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc. Counter citations that neutralize each other. E. Everett.

Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.

stant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. [Obs.] Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong impediment or other objecting itself. Hooker. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope.

Such as can be presented in opposition; that may be put forward as an objection. [R.]

That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections. "Objections against every truth." Tyndale.

om, the object known, and not from the subject knowing, and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to that which is ideal -- what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual. Sir. W. Hamilton. Objective has come to mean that which has independent exostence or authority, apart…

A struggle against; resistance; opposition. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Opposition; impediment; obstruction. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To oppose; to hold out in opposition. [Obs.] Dryden.

aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.

Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.] The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either off or on. Bp. Sanderson. From off, off from; off. "A live coal...taken with the tongs from off the altar." Is. vi. 6. -- Off and on. (a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then; occasionally. (b) (Naut.) On different tacks,…

To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as, to offer violence, attack, etc.

Opposition. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically. I may . . . oppose my single opinion to his. Locke.