species of direct opposition, wherein one thing is found diametrically opposite to another.

Contradictory Propositions, are opposites, one of which imports a mere and naked denial of the other.

Seeming contradictories is when the members of a period quite disagree in appearance and sound, but perfectly agree and are consistent in sense: thus,

"Gowards die many times before their death; "The valiant never taste of death but once."

Shakespeare.

Contra-Fissure, in surgery, a kind of fracture, or fissure, in the cranium, which sometimes happens on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or, at least, at some distance from it.