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Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc..

Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory..

Biostatics :: Biostatics (n.) The physical phenomena of organized bodies, in opposition to their organic or vital phenomena..

Spurn :: Spurn (v. i.) To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.

Remonstrance :: Remonstrance (n.) Earnest presentation of reason in opposition to something; protest; expostulation.

Left :: Left (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right..

Maugre :: Maugre (prep.) In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..

Contravene :: Contravene (v. t.) To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

Rabbinist :: Rabbinist (n.) One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions..

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power..

Object :: Object (v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.

War :: War (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility..

Traverse :: Traverse (v. i.) To use the posture or motions of opposition or counteraction, as in fencing..

Antivaccination :: Antivaccination (n.) Opposition to vaccination.

Supernaturalist :: Supernaturalism (n.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case..

Acclivity :: Acclivity (n.) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent..

Contrariness :: Contrariness (n.) state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.

Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition..

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