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Roquefort gives O. Fr. countremont as signifying,
contra montem.
Eridanus the heuinly reuer clere
Flowis oontirmmt, and vpwart to the lift.
Doug. Virgil, 188. 14.
Fr. canlremont, upward, directly against the stream.
En haut, en remontant ;
CONTRACT, s. The application made to
the clerk of the parish to euregister the
names of a couple for proclamation
of the
banns, Ang.
" When a couple are to marry, the first public pro-
cedure is for the bridegroom, accompanied by the bride's
father, and a few friends, to wait upon the sessionclerk
for getting the banns published. This always
takes place on a Saturday evening, and is termed 'the
contract night.' From the contract night to the
afternoon of the Sunday after their marriage, the
parties are termed bride and bridegroom, and, during
this period, neither must attend either wedding or
funeral ; or the consequences will be, in the former
case, that their first-born child will 'break Diana's
pales,' and in the latter, never be married." Edin.
Mag., Nov., 1814, p. 411.
To CONTRACT, v. a. To give in the names of
a couple for proclamation of banns, ibid.
To CONTRAFAIT, CONTRACT,
v.
To counterfeit.
a. 1.
"Sen quhilk tyme diuerss the subiectis of this
realme hes wickitlie and comtemnandlie purchest the
saidis Papis bullis, &c. or hes causit contrafait the samin
in Flanders or vtheris partis with antedaittis. As
alswa sum vtheris hes purchest. or contrafatit giftis and
prouisiounis of benefices," &c. Acts Ja. VI., 1572,
Ed. 1814, p. 77.
2. Used apparently in the sense of E. imitate.
"I will plaine my Industrie, willing to contra/it
the wisdome and prudence of the wise and prudent
medicinar," &c. Ressoning, Crossraguell & J. Knox,
F. 26, b.
From L. B. contrafac-ere, id. contrafact-us.
CONTRAIR, adj. Contrary, Fr.
"
Some, whether because they were loth, though
privily they assented to that paper, that yet it should
go on in a publick act, or being varied with a clean
contrair spirit, were wilful to have Mr. Harry vent
himself in publick, to the uttermost of his passions."
Baillie's Lett., i. 199.
[Contrar occurs in Barbour, i. 241, xviii. 265, Skeat's
edit.]
To CONTRARE, CONTER, v. a. To thwart, to
oppose, S. O. E., id. Contrarit, part, pa.,
Barbour.
There was na man that wald contrare
This Bischope in-til word or deyde.
Wyntmon, vi. 14. 24.
His brither gae him a' his pow'r
The army for to lead ;
And syne fa durst aues center him
Was like to tine the head.
Poems in the Buchan Dialect, p. 20.
Fr. contrar-ier, id.
To contrarye occurs in 0. E. as signifying to contradict.
"Iconlrarye a man in his sayeng ;" Palsgr.
B. iii. F. 197, a. Our term may be, as the 0. E. evidently
is, immediately from Fr. contrar-ier. I hesitate,
however, if not directly formed from Lat. contraire,
a term much used in our old deeds.
[Contraryit = opposed, occurs in Barbour, iii. 271, ix.
470. Skeat's edit.]
CONTRAIR, prep. In opposition to, S.
"
Thair was maid ane confederacie, that quhatsumevir
vroug was done to thame or ony of thame,
sould be ane lyk quarrell to thame all contrair quhatsumevir
man within or without the realme. "
Pitscottie's
Cron., p. 95.
IN CONTRARE, prep. Against, in opposition
to ; In the contrair, to the contrary ; In our
contrare, against or in opposition
to us.
" He was schamfullie hanged, notwithstanding the
kingis commandement in the contrair." Pitscottie's
Cron., p. 96.
"We declared our state to the king our husband,
certifying him how miserably he would be handled, in
case he permitted thir lords to prevail in our contrare."
Lett. Q. Mary, Keith's Hist., p. 333.
Fr. contraire, against ; au contmire, on the contrary.
CONTRARE, s. 1. any
Opposition, resistance, of
kind.
The streme backwartis vpflowis soft and still ;
So that the airis mycht findin na contrare.
Doug. Virgil, 243. 4.
2. Something contrary to one's feelings, desires,
or expectations. Confer, S. B.
'Bout then-a-days, we'd seldom met with cross,
Nor keut the ill of centers, or of loss.
Ross's Helenore, p. 92.
CONTRARISUM, adj.
humour, Ang.
Perverse, of a froward
CONTRAMASHOUS,
Lanarks.
adj. Self-willed,
V. CONTERMASH-
opposed to all,
ous.
CONTRECOUP, s. Opposition, a repulse
in the pursuit of any object, Ayrs. ; Fr. contre,
against, and coup, a stroke.
To CONTROVENE, v. a. To be subjected
to ; synon. with E. incur.
"It wes fundin and declarit, that the said is thrie
erlis had incurrit and controvenit the charge of treassoun."
Acts Ja. VI., 1597, Ed. 1814, p. 124.
This very literal sense of the term is unauthorized
elsewhere. It must have been borrowed from Lat.
contraven-ire, to come against, like incurrere, to run
upon.
To CONTRUFE, v. a. To contrive; con-
truwit, part. pa.
This ilk schreuit wycht,
That is cmitruwar of many wikkit slycht,
Fenyeis him fleyit or abasit to be,
That he dar not chyde forth in contrare me ;
Than with his drede and sle contrmoit fere,
My cryme aggregeis he on his manere.
Doug. Virgil, 377. 15. Fr. contrmiv-er, id,
CONTRUWAR, s. A contriver, an inventor.
V. the v. Fr. controuveuer, id.
CONTUMACED, part. pa. "Accused of
contumacy," Gl.
" They began first to call the absents frae this parliament
both at home and abroad, but no bishop was