Con`tra*dict" (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Contradicted; p.pr. & vb.n Contradicting.] [L. contradictus, p.p. of contradicere to speak against; contra + dicere to speak. See Diction.]
1.
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; 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.
2.
To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.
[Obs.]
No truth can contradict another truth.
Hooker.
A greater power than we can contradict
Hath thwarted our intents.
Shak.
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Con`tra*dict, v. i.
To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.
They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts xiii. 45.
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