How To Use Contradistinction In A Sentence
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a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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Such distinctive characters are spoken of as _secondary sexual characters_, in contradistinction to the _primary sexual characters_, the reproductive organs.
The Sexual Life of the Child
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For the purposes of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews
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All of that, in our submission, strongly supports the position that the word ‘amend’ as used in 1904 was not being used in contradistinction to ‘repeal’.
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In the Greek Church the law of abstinence is designated by the term xerophagy in contradistinction to monophagy, signifying the law of fasting.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave trade) _ "the internal slave trade_.
My Bondage and My Freedom
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In this way he was a real specialist, in contradistinction to the town specialists who are identified with certain diseases or disasters.
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And, nonetheless, we regularly see him applauded in contradistinction to President Obama.
Kathleen Osborn: 10 Reasons Why Reagan Is Not the Answer
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I will pass on a useful rule of thumb for spotting the kind of blinkered fundamentalist evolutionists with whom it really is a waste of time trying to debate (quite a few seem to have congregated here) They are the people who in contradistinction to being right (sc. in agreement with themselves) recognise only one category: ie, being a liar.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Social history emerged either as a marginal or as an oppositional subdiscipline or approach, in contradistinction from the received type of conventional history.
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I refer specifically to permanent residents, in contradistinction to temporary visitors.
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Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw.
On the Genesis of Species
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By predefinition, in contradistinction to predestination to glory, theologians understand the absolute, positive, and efficacious decree of God from all eternity, that certain persons shall at some time in the future perform certain good works (cf. Franzelin, "De Deo Uno" Rome, 1883, pp. 444 sqq.).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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The principal issue for the mystery plays was the representation of the divine, which conventionally was signified by a burnished gold mask in contradistinction to the blackening of the devil.
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By defining faith in contradistinction to reason, it is rendered somewhat absurd in the process.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In perfect contradistinction is the tangy, crunchy coleslaw.
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Play at this age also tends to solidify a cultural group identity, an 'us' in contradistinction to a 'them'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Play at this age also tends to solidify a cultural group identity, an 'us' in contradistinction to a 'them'.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Their writings, have concentrated mainly on urban women and society, totally ignoring the status of rural women who labor side by side with men in the fields, outside their homes, in contradistinction to the segregated women of the city.
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As a unique political society, self-defined in deliberate contradistinction to Europe and modern Britain, the United States has perennially baffled, perplexed, and annoyed Eurocentrists.
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Dystopians, in contradistinction to utopians, believe that technology is more regressive than progressive, more a force for evil than good.
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What this serves to do is reinscribe and produce the identity of the middle-class consumer subject in contradistinction to that of the common working masses.
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Thanks partly to Thomas, the concert orchestra became an American specialty, in contradistinction to the pit orchestras of Europe.
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The Latin word conjugial was used by the writer to indicate the true spiritual union of man and wife in contradistinction to the mere natural union as expressed in the word conjugal.
The Wedding Guest
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sculpture in contradistinction to painting
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no got pidgin," and _pidgin English_ simply means a workable knowledge of colloquial English as picked up by tradesmen, servants and coolies, in contradistinction to English as taught in the schools.
Life and sport in China Second Edition
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This method of construction is called arcuated, in contradistinction to the trabeated style used in Greek architecture, where the voids between column and column, or between column and wall, were spanned by lintels.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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In contradistinction to Galenic medicines, which were largely derived from the vegetable kingdom, from this time on we find in the literature references to spagyric medicines and a "spagyrist" was a Paracelsian who regarded chemistry as the basis of all medical knowledge.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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“Sadly and directly in contradistinction to assimilation theory, the fourth generation differs the most from whites, with a college completion rate of only 6 percent [compared to 35 percent for whites of that era].”
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals
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It is also the catalyst for an even more bloodcurdling event, in which we realize that David is not the paragon of stability that he sometimes seemed in contradistinction to Katia.
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If we remember that capital is thus a term used in contradistinction to land and labor, we at once see that nothing properly included under either one of these terms can be properly classed as capital.
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I refer specifically to permanent residents, in contradistinction to temporary visitors.
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To the correct orthoepist, several persons on the stage give offence in the pronunciation of the pronoun possessive MY -- speaking it in all cases with the full open Y, as it would rhyme to _fly_, which should only be when it is put in contradistinction to _thy_ or _his_, or any other pronoun possessive: in all other cases it should be sounded like _me_.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
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In contradistinction to Galenic medicines, which were largely derived from the vegetable kingdom, from this time on we find in the literature references to spagyric medicines and a "spagyrist" was a Paracelsian who regarded chemistry as the basis of all medical knowledge.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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There is another irony here, which involves a kind of contradistinction between present and posthumous fame.
The Times Literary Supplement
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By defining faith in contradistinction to reason, it is rendered somewhat absurd in the process.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The contradistinction of the two logics, formal logical and dialectical, is equally unjustified.
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The four actors of whom I shall attempt to tell, you something -- Burbage, Betterton, Garrick, and Kean -- were the _four_ greatest champions, in their respective times, on the stage of Nature in contradistinction to Artificiality.
The Drama
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Striped or voluntary muscle is composed of bundles of fibers each enclosed in a delicate web called the perimysium in contradistinction to the sheath of areolar tissue which invests the entire muscle, the epimysium.
IV. Myology. 2. Development of the Muscles
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Imitating the classic metres, "versifying," as it was called in contradistinction to rhyming, was becoming fast the fashion among the more learned.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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In contradistinction, the other half of the biennial is made up of work from elsewhere in the world.
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That goes a long way toward explaining why results for “socialism” and “capitalism” are nearly statistically independent, I had the impression they were being asked in contradistinction to each other.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Reactions to Words Without Context
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Sistani, in contradistinction, was happy as pigs in the popcorn.
The Invasion Of Iraq
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I refer specifically to permanent residents, in contradistinction to temporary visitors.
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So rapacious were some accountant trustees, in contradistinction to legal practitioner trustees, that bankruptcy trusteeships were referred to in parliament and in the press as ‘legalised robbery’.
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In contradistinction, this is a philosophy that ought to be at the core of a democratic society, committed to openness, transparency and accountability.
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I refer specifically to permanent residents, in contradistinction to temporary visitors.
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There is another irony here, which involves a kind of contradistinction between present and posthumous fame.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One volume of water will dissolve seven hundred times its bulk of this gas, and is then known as aqua ammonia, in contradistinction to anhydrous ammonia, the latter designating term meaning without water, while the term aqua is the Latin word for water.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
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In the novel, set forty years later, Armenian whiteness is defined in contradistinction to the racial alterity of Native Americans, another group that has suffered genocide.
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I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although
The Right of American Slavery
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Now, if to this real in the substance we ascribe a particular existence (for example, to motion as an accident of matter), this existence is called inherence, in contradistinction to the existence of substance, which we call subsistence.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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Importantly, for Robert, in contradistinction to Kant, civil society cannot supplement this abstraction with the relative concreteness and historicity of traditions contractually entered into and upheld.
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Searle's picture leaves open the possibility of free will, defined here in contradistinction to determinism.
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Every day it advances and delineates the independent attitude of the international working class, in contradistinction to other social classes, to every major political development.
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Recent writers reserve the name Chaldean for the later period of Babylonian history -- the time when the Greeks came in contact with the Mesopotamians -- in contradistinction to the earlier periods which are revealed to us by the archæological records.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
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Angiospermae by Paul Hermann in 1690, as the name of that one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom, which included flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, in contradistinction to his Gymnospermae, or flowering plants with achenial or schizo-carpic fruits -- the whole fruit or each of its pieces being here regarded as
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Russians who joined the union under the Polish kings received the same name, and the word Ruthenian is to-day used exclusively to designate the Russians of Austro-Hungary, who are Greek Catholics in contradistinction to the Russians of the Russian Empire, who are of the Greek Orthodox faith.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Hence it is called ideographic. in contradistinction from the phonographic or alphabetical system of writing.
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Your definition of Christian, in contradistinction to my second one, goes a long way toward proving what Kamal was getting at.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Removed
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But of faith, and the precedency it ought to have before other arguments of persuasion, I shall speak more hereafter; where I treat of it as it is ordinarily placed, in contradistinction to reason; though in truth it be nothing else but an assent founded on the highest reason.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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The black mail was a private contribution, often compulsatory, for the maintenance of the famous black watch, an independent corps of provincial militia, and so called from the colour of their dress, in contradistinction to the red soldiers, or _leidar dearag_.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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As, however, it appears in (Jeremiah 2: 22) in contradistinction to nether, which undoubtedly means "natron" or mineral alkali, it is fair to infer that borith refers to vegetable alkali, or some kind of potash, which forms one of the usual ingredients in our soap.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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In contradistinction to continental and intercontinental location, anthropogeography recognizes two other narrower meanings of the term.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
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In contradistinction to less reflective celebrants of all things Irish, Kiberd willingly embraces the invented character of contemporary Irish culture.
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In the following year the antlers take the form shown in Fig. 4, and then follows the antler shown in Fig. 5, _a_, which generally has "forks" in place of points, and is known as forked antler in contradistinction to the point antler shown in Fig. 5, _b_, which retains the shape of the antler, Fig. 4, but has additional or intermediate prongs or branches.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
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For the purpose of the present discourse, however, I shall recognise none of these titles save the last, which I shall employ as the equivalent of botanist, and I shall use the term zoology as denoting the whole doctrine of animal life, in contradistinction to botany, which signifies the whole doctrine of vegetable life.
Essays
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This term is employed in contradistinction to the later developed cell, commonly termed the _dry cell_.
Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc.
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From dime novels and penny dreadfuls through to the pulp boom of the early 20th century which gave us the modern commercial genres of Western, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction and so on, that process continues, with all these genres being defined as “pulp fiction” which by now is intrinsically in contradistinction to “literary fiction”.
Archive 2009-05-01
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In consequence of the comparisons that will hereafter arise between wires carrying voltaic and ordinary electricities, and also because of certain views of the condition of a wire or any other conducting substance connecting the poles of a voltaic apparatus, it will be necessary to give some definite expression of what is called the voltaic current, in contradistinction to any supposed peculiar state of arrangement, not progressive, which the wire or the electricity within it may be supposed to assume.
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1
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Grigoriadis' choice of the word emasculated rubs me the wrong way up one side and down the other, for reasons I'm going to assume I've made evident in no fewer than a nonillion posts about defining strength, power, etc. in contradistinction to the feminine.
Prove Your Manhood With Veiled Rape Threats
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These fabulist authors have gone even further by establishing themselves as an ‘institution’ that is juxtaposing its narrative form in contradistinction to the common banal discourse of society.
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The exquisite taste in clothing of the Indian upper class is in sharp contradistinction to its complete indifference to the external appearance of houses and streets.