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contradictive, a.|kɒntrəˈdɪktɪv|
[f. L. contrādict- ppl. stem (as above) + -ive.]
1. Of contradictory quality or tendency.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxxiii. 315 They are not Contradictive to the Canon. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 167 The consecrating of Temples, carpets, and table-clothes, the railing in of a repugnant and contradictive Mount Sinai in the Gospell. 1706De Foe Jure Div. iv. 72 This Passive Sham..The Dream of Contradictive Loyalty, Which makes Men suffer first, and then obey. 1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 280 Greek philosophy..exhibits a continual contradictive illusion moving before its philosophizings.
†2. Given to contradiction; contradictious. Obs.
1643E. Symmons Loy. Subjects Beliefe 82 They were of such contradictive spirits, that, etc. 1673O. Walker Educ. (1677) 71 No Nation..(except our late contradictive spirits) that express not their joy and mirth by it [dancing]. Ibid. 295 Neither maintain an argument with contradictive persons.
Hence contraˈdictively adv., contraˈdictiveness.
1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 311 This..gives a character of contradictiveness to the exhibition. 1842G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 123 To write contradictively and unintelligibly. 1851― Many Mansions (1862) 339 The very same claim is contradictively put forth by his Competitor. |