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Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.

The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance. Shak.

Opposition. [R.] Bp. Hall.

rror or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation. "Lancelot and I are out." Shak. Wicked men are strangely out in the calculating of their own interest. South. Very seldom out, in these his guesses. Addison.

A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor.

That which is overthwart; an adverse circumstance; opposition. [Obs.] Surrey.

One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I. Walpole.

by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. Dryden.

To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.

eadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken. Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright. Milton.

to join; to combine. Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him. Fuller.

(L. timidus). -- Polar lights, the aurora borealis or australis. -- Polar, or Polaric, opposition or contrast (Logic), an opposition or contrast made by the existence of two opposite conceptions which are the extremes in a species, as white and black in colors; hence, as great an opposition or contrast as possible.…

One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. The sarcasms and invectives of the young polemic. Macaulay.

Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition. [Obs.]

nctions of the soul, -- contemplation and practice. South. There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice; each, to a certain extent, supposes the other; theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.

To make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes. Denham. The conscience has power . . . to protest againts the exorbitancies of the passions. Shak.

To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.

ter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition. Quadrature of the moon (Astron.), the position of the moon when one half of the disk is illuminated. -- Quadrature of an orbit (Astron.), a point in an orbit which is at either extremity of the latus rectum drawn thro…

One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.