Word Meanings - HOLT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. Chaucer.

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• CONTRALTO
  The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor. the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto. Note: The usual range of the contralto voice is from G, below middle
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• CONTRARIANT
  Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. The struggles of contrariant factions. Coleridge. (more info) oppose, fr. L. contrarius: cf. F. contrariant, p.pr. of contrarier to
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• CONTRARIETY
  1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
• CONTRIBUTIONAL
  Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
• CONTRABAND
  1. Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke. 2. Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden. 3. A negro slave, during the Civil
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• CONTRAPUNTIST
  One skilled in counterpoint. L. Mason.
• CONTRIST
  To make sad. To deject and contrist myself. Sterne.
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CONTRAFAGETTO
  The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
• CONTRIBUTARY
  1. Contributory. 2. Tributary; contributing. It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville .
• CONTRITION
  1. The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing. The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. Sir I. Newton. 2. The state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• UNCONTROVERSORY
  Not involving controversy. Bp. Hall.