contraˈpose, v.
[f. L. contrāpōnĕre, with substitution of -pose for -pone: see compose, repose.]
1. trans. To set in opposition, or over against each other. Hence contraposed ppl. a.
| 1617 Salkeld Treat. Paradise 235 (L.) We may manifestly see contraposed death and life. 1620 Shelton Quix. III. xxix. 204 The Equinoctial Line, which divides and cuts the two contrapos'd Poles in equal Distance. 1928 E. & C. Paul tr. Marx's Capital i. 18 The relative value form of the linen implies..that some other commodity is contraposed to the linen in the equivalent form. |
2. Logic. = contrapone.