contrarily, adv.
(ˈkɒntrərɪlɪ)
[f. contrary a. + -ly2. As to pronunciation, see contrariwise.]
1. In a contrary manner, in direct opposition; to the contrary, contrariwise.
| [c 1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 940 Ho sey contraly, I cast heym In cares cold.] 1570 B. Googe Pop. Kingd. ii. (1880) 23 And makes of euery Devill God, contrarily to seeme. 1651 Baxter Inf. Bapt. 157 He thinks it crept in among other corruptions: I think contrarily. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 218 As if there were two Gods, contrarily minded to one another. 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Thomson, Why the dedications are..contrarily to custom, left out. 1875 F. Hall in N.Y. Nation xxi. 339/2 Will any one who recollects his oratory testify contrarily? |
2. On the other hand, on the contrary, conversely.
| c 1540 Boorde Boke for to Lerne A iv a, And contraryly euyll and corrupt ayers doth infecte the blode. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. To Rdr., Illustrated for their Vertues..or contrarily branded for their Vices. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. II. iii. viii. 91 Contrarily such Coasts as are least supplied with Rivers or Lakes have the weakest Tides. 1860 Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. 293 Whom the Venetians, we saw, despised, whom, contrarily, Turner loved. |
3. In the contrary way; vice versâ.
| 1656 Ridgley Pract. Physick 55 A hot Liver, a cold Brain..and so contrarily. |
¶ per contrarily (nonce-wd.): see per contra.
| 1687 in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) 197 You have per contrarily refus'd. |