† inˈcontrair, adv. and prep. Sc. Obs.
Also -are, -ar.
[f. in prep. + contrair n.; cf. the fuller phrases in the contrair (of), in our contrair, etc.]
a. as advb. phr. or adv. (followed by a preposition): In opposition to, in spite of.
| c 1480 Henryson Mor. Fab. 37 This hound of hell, Deuored hes my Lambe..in contrair to your cry. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 145 Incontrair than of all his lordis will. |
b. as prep. In opposition to, contrary to; against.
| 1484 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) 166 Impetraciouns made in the Court of Rome in contrare our souuerane lordis privilege. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. viii. heading, How Alecto persuadit has Turnus To move battale incontrar Latinus. 1558 Kennedie Compend. Tract. in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) I. 119 Abominabyll heresyis incontrar our faith. 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus Prol. 205 [It is als] incontrair his Complexioun [As ane f]asert to fecht with ane Falcoun. |