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Contrary to nature. Harvey.

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  • CONTRARY
    Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
  • NATURED
    Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
  • NATURELESS
    Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
  • HARVEY PROCESS
    A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued
  • NATURE
    1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
  • CONSIGNATURE
    Joint signature. Colgrave.
  • TRANSNATURE
    To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
  • DENATURE
    To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
  • SIGNATURE
    An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
  • DISNATURED
    Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. Shak.
  • GOOD-NATUREDLY
    With maldness of temper.
  • DECLINATURE
    The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
  • SUBCONTRARY
    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
  • GOOD-NATURED
    Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked. Syn. -- Good-natured, Good-tempered, Good-humored. Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffied by provocations or other
  • ILL-NATURED
    1. Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person. 2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The ill-natured task refuse." Addison. 3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. "Ill-natured
  • FAIR-NATURED
    Well-disposed. "A fair-natured prince." Ford.

 

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