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- Subcontrary - a. - Contrary in an inferior degree.
- Subcontrary - a. - Having, or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
- Subcontrary - a. - Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
- Subcontrary - n. - A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.
- Subcontrary - n. - A subcontrary proposition; a proposition inferior or contrary in a lower degree.