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repugnantadj.n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French repugnant, Latin repugnant-, repugnāns. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman repungnant, Anglo-Norman and Middle French repugnant, French répugnant contrary, opposed, in opposition, resistant (to) (13th cent. in Old French), that experiences distaste (to do something) (1540), that inspires repugnance or disgust (mid 18th cent.) < classical Latin repugnant-, repugnāns refractory, obstinate, contradictory, inconsistent, differing, contrary, use as adjective of present participle of repugnāre repugn v. With use as noun compare classical Latin repugnantia (neuter plural) contradictions, inconsistencies, Middle French repugnant that which is contrary to something else (1378). Compare slightly earlier repugning adj. A. adj. 1. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antidote > [adjective] ?a1425 f. 156v Ȝif þe heire be to hote oþer to colde, þou moste ordeine þi medicynes þat þei be repungnaunt to þe heire. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner 148 It is repugnant against all kinds of worms within the body. 1568 G. Skeyne vii. sig. B4 Quhilk..is repugnand to all vther kynd of poysone. 1585 R. Bostocke sig. Cviv We ought not to seeke helpe in things contrarie and repugnant: who findeth medicine for the Liuer in Gratian, Agarick, or Colocinthis. 1590 W. Clever 14 The medicine being repugnant. the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > resisting c1443 R. Pecock (1927) 41 (MED) Goodis of þe fleisch..ben repugnaunt to mannys fynal reste and to his fynal eende. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) II. f. lxxxxiiiv But to all this was the Towne of Gaunt repugnaunt, in so moche yt mortall warre beganne. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy (1903) II. iii. xvi. 11 Sum tyme (becaus he was repugnant) he bad tak him perforce. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo (1586) ii. 102 b He ought to be called ignorant, whose minde is repugnant to knowledge. 1627 T. May tr. Lucan (1631) iii. 592 As when strong windes with tydes repugnant meet, One way the Sea, the waues another go. 1702 8 By their affronting of it [sc. the Act], and making Laws repugnant, and in opposition to it. 1818 Ld. Byron lxxv. 40 I abhorr'd..The drill'd dull lesson, forced down word by word In my repugnant youth. 1875 R. Browning 1 Never again may these repugnant orbs Ache themselves blind. 1923 A. N. Wilder 10 We shall rise again, repugnant, wroth From these dark ways, to march o'er sea and land. 2. the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] 1425 in H. Nicolas (1834) III. 173 (MED) Þe said Scottesmen..contrarieth noght þe deposicions..for wher youre men saen þat þe said souldeours..occupied to certain boundes..hit importeth noght ne is noght repugnant. c1449 R. Pecock (1860) 408 (MED) Tho chapitres ben not bitwixe hem silf repugnant. a1500 tr. A. Chartier (Rawl.) (1974) 114 (MED) Aduersary pa[r]tyes requyrith of God victorye for themself and confusion to there enemyes, which ben repugnaunte thingis and inpossible to obteyne. 1528 S. Gardiner in N. Pocock (1870) I. 118 In hurts done and taken on either party there is many times tidings repugnant. 1590 H. Swinburne iv. f. 122 Those conditions which by reason of contraritie or repugnant perplexitie be impossible, or incompatible. 1614 W. Raleigh i. ii. xiii. §8. 440 There being found three places of Scriptures touching this point seeming repugnant, or disagreeing. 1660 tr. I. Barrow i. 23 The outward angle AEF will be greater then the inward angle DFE, to which it was equall by Hypothesis. Which is repugnant. 1720 D. Waterland 101 It was confounding the Ideas of Creator and Creature, and was all over Contradictory, and Repugnant. 1766 W. Blackstone II. 157 A condition either impossible, illegal, or repugnant. 1800 4 213 When these are..variously combined with no properties chemically repugnant. 1864 F. C. Bowen iv. 65 Considered in relation to each other Marks are either Congruent or Repugnant. the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > directly opposed the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > inconsistent or contradictory the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] > different from c1443 R. Pecock (1927) 251 (MED) Sum tyme such a kunnyng holi writer takiþ a word in sum place..forto signifie in a certeyn maner, and..in an oþer place..forto signifie in an oþer maner repugnaunt or not þe same wiþ þe former maner. 1461–2 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §14. m. 4 Repugnaunt or contrarie to the seid right. a1513 J. Irland (1965) II. 92 Ilk maner of thing..lufis the self..and enchowis all thinge contrar and repugnand to it. 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero i. sig. A.6 Whan that thyng semeth to be repugnaunt with honesty, that semeth profytable. 1551 T. Wilson sig. Evj Obeye the higher power in all thynges, that are not directely repugnaunt from the wil of God. 1590 C. S. 24 Repugnant plainely against the law of Moses. 1620 R. Crakanthorpe 16 These two wils..are so farre from being repugnant or contrary the one vnto the other..that they doe most fitly..agree one with the other. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 140 in If the Laws..do command things repugnant to Gods word. 1685 H. More xlix. 459 Not at all repugnant with our Hypothesis. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter ii. iv. 165 The coming in sight of that Island was directly repugnant to the Merchant's instructions. 1804 W. Cruise V. 542 The clause was void; because it was repugnant to the body of the act. 1864 F. C. Bowen iv. 91 The number of attributes in the universe not logically repugnant to each other is infinite. 1928 7 Feb. 10/3 His words can be construed so as not to be repugnant to the two passages articled against him. the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adjective] 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton (new ed.) f. xlv The cause of the dyuersyte betwene these .ii. cases is repugnaunt ynough. 3. the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective] 1633 Earl of Manchester (rev. ed.) 69 At that instant [of death] nature will reluct to keepe still her being, vnto which death is repugnant, life pleasing. 1777 R. Watson II. xiv. 23 The limitations..imposed upon the sovereign's authority, were utterly repugnant to Philip's temper. 1825 C. Lamb in Aug. 599 Characters in comedy..which involve some notion repugnant to the moral sense. 1869 E. A. Freeman III. xi. 58 A step likely to be in many ways repugnant to Northumbrian feeling. 1906 J. Conrad 30 May (1988) III. 332 The intention of temperamental writing is infinitely complex, and to talk about my work is repugnant to me—beyond anything. 1985 C. Jencks (ed. 2) viii. 320 The relativism which was so repugnant to those who wished to establish architecture on an absolute base. 2008 Aug. 49/2 Montego Bay in those days was a narrow-minded little town reputed to be the ‘batty man’ capital of Jamaica, which was an odious epithet, homosexuality being deeply repugnant to Jamaicans. the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [adjective] 1879 tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau 49 The flesh also assumes a repugnant appearance. 1938 D. Thomas 1 Sept. (1987) 325 What I need now urgently is some small regular income; the garret's repugnant; I can't keep a steady head and wag a wild tongue if worry like a bumbailiff sits silently nagging by my side. 1978 91 580 The personal hygiene and habits of the gomer are so repugnant and distasteful as to prove offensive even to the most hardened and dispassionate staff member. 2003 S. Greenfield (2004) v. 135 Resurrection cloning, whereby a dying relative is cloned..need not be intrinsically repugnant. B. n.the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > opposite or contradictory proposition(s) c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock (1921) 180 (MED) Erst..sum dede or disposicioun must be knowun to be a moral vertu..eer to him þe repugnaunt be knowen to be a moral vice. a1513 J. Irland (1965) II. 97 Quhen the infidele or vthir proponis it, the persoune suld propone the repungnant to it. 1654 Z. Coke 169 One of the contradicents and repugnants being put, the other is removed. 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck ii. x. 44 Seek first the Consequences of the Predicate,..then the Repugnants. 1788 J. Seally II. 70 Common places from whence such arguments may be drawn, are sixteen in number..Definition..Distribution..Etymology..Antecedents..Consequents..Repugnants [etc.]. 1849 H. L. Mansel in H. Aldrich i. 16 There are many repugnants which are not included under any of Aristotle's four modes of opposition, e.g. red and blue are repugnant, but not opposed. 1894 J. N. Keynes (ed. 3) i. v. 51 While X and not-X are formal contradictories, XY and X not-Y may be said to be formal repugnants, XY and not-X not-Y formal contraries. 1993 P. Mack vii. 149 Opposites and distantia (things opposing, but at different levels of the genus/species structure to the exact opposite) are in the class of repugnants. society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > intractable person the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > opposition or resistance > that which or one who resists > one who resists 1625 R. Montagu 143 What..Edict did ever command it to be professed, or..imposed penaltie upon repugnants, or non-consentients unto it? 1796 J. Bentham XI. 115 Co-proprietors might, any or all of them, have been repugnants. Derivatives 1727 N. Bailey II Repugnantness, repugnancy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  adj.n.?a1425 |
