contrarious

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Say worthie Doctours & Clerkes curious, What moneth you of bookes to have such number, Since diuers doctrines through way contrarious, Doth man's minde distract and sore encomber.

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

I wonder what makes you such a contrarious person, Gibbie Gault?

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley

The word of God is plain in itself; and if there appear any obscurity in one place, the Holy Ghost, who is never contrarious to Himself, explains the same more clearly in other places.'

From John Knox by Innes, A. Taylor

Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious guests Upon thy doings!

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

Alas! what more contrarious deed, What greater miracle of wrong than this, That man should know his good and take it not?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert