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We found 13 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word subcontrary: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "subcontrary" is defined. General (12 matching dictionaries) subcontrary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] subcontrary: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] subcontrary: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] subcontrary: Wordnik [home, info] subcontrary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] subcontrary: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] subcontrary: Dictionary.com [home, info] Subcontrary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] subcontrary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] Subcontrary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] subcontrary: Free Dictionary [home, info] subcontrary: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Medicine (1 matching dictionary) subcontrary: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (subcontrary) (a.) Contrary in an inferior degree. (a.) Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false. (a.) Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel. (n.) A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree. (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)