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y; 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.

sertion; 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.

The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

Contradicting one's self or itself.

pposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were full of absurdities. Johnson.

[R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.

A contradicter. [Obs.]

Contradiction. [Obs.]

A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.