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

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

s, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

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

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

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.

Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton.

So as to be evident beyond contradiction.

urrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

n; to consider as belonging (to). We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it. Abp. Tillotson. The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer. Shak.

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

s of humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic. Milton. The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the…

s of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.

A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon.

Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. Clashes between popes and kings. Denham.

hem. Rogers. Conclusive evidence (Law), that of which, from its nature, the law allows no contradiction or explanation. -- Conclusive presumption (Law), an inference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

Filled with contradictions; inconsistent. [Obs.]

Contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. I do not bear these crossings. Shak.

ial. We can not demonstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.