opposition between two things, which imports their being contrary to one another; and consists in this, that one of the terms implies a negation of the other, either immediately or immediately; so that contrariety may be said to be the contrast, or opposition of two things, one of which imports the absence of the other, as love and hatred.

Contrary, a positive opposite, which, shifting by turns in the same subject with its opposite, is as remote from it as possible, expels it, and is mutually expelled by it. Blackness and whiteness, cold and heat, are such contraries.

Contrast, opposition or dissimilitude of figures, by which one contributes to the visibility or effect of the others. See Resemblance.