| 单词 | contradiction in the adject |
| 释义 | > as lemmascontradiction in the adject † contradiction in the adject [after post-classical Latin contradictio in adiecto (1591 or earlier)] : the fact of there being a contradictory adjective; a paradox. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1654 J. Reading Antidote against Anabaptism 3 As for that which you say—They have so great excuse on their side, that their error is not—vincible, seems a contradiction in the adject; who believes any error to be invincible. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 154 Doth it not implie a contradiction in the Adject, that man should make a right use of his natural abilities or prepare himself for the reception of supernatural grace? 1683 J. Fitzwilliam Serm. Cotenham 26 A devout stirrer up of Sedition, a religious Incendiary, a godly Rebel, on one hand; and an atheistical Royallist, a dissolute Leige-man, a wicked good Subject on the other, are contradictions in the adject. < as lemmas |
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