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 Contestation vraye. A resolute, or peremptorie contestation made by both parties.

Contesté: m. ée: f. Contested; protested; called, or taken to witnesse; also, debated, reasoned, argued, brabled about; also, denied, gainsayed, contested against.

Contester. To contest; call, or take to witnesse, make an earnest protestation, or complaint vnto; also, to brable, argue, debate a matter with; also, to denie, gainesay, contest against.  Contester la cause. To open before a Iudge the chiefe points of the bill and answer.

Conteur: m. An idle talker, vaine speaker, ordinarie teller of old wiues tales; also, as Compteur; also, a Counsellor, or Atturney intertained for the pleading, or opening of a cause in Court.  À fol conteur sage escouteur: Prov. A foolish talker had need to find a wise hearer; or, let him talke neuer so foolishly, they are wise enough that heare him.

Contexte: m. A context; a whole web, composition, worke; or, an interlacing, ioyning, or weauing together; also, the forme, or stile of a Proces, Booke, or Discourse.  Par vn contexte. Altogether; with one tenour, in one manner; without any interruption, or intermission.

Contigu: m. uë: f. Neere adioyning, fast by, close together, touching one another.

Contigué: m. ée: f. Ioyned; layed neere, or close vnto.

Contin. Mon contin. My countreyman.

Continemment. Continently, soberly, chastly; sparingly; with much temper, and moderation; abstemiously.

Continence: f. Continencie, sobrietie, forbearance of, abstinence from, pleasure.

Continent. Continent; sober, moderate; abstinent, abstemious, delights-forbearing.

Continu: m. uë: f. Continuall, perpetuall, day by day, without intermission, or interruption; intire, whole.  Continu à faire quelque chose. Diligent, laborious, euer at it, perseuering in it.  Fiévre continuë. A continuall feuer, whose fit neuer ceaseth till the disease, or diseased, end.

Continuätion: f. A continuation, or holding on without any stop, or intermission; a perseuerance.

Continuë: f. as Continuätion. À la continuë l'eau cave la pierre: Prov. At length, or in continuance of time, the water pierceth stone.

Continué: m. ée: f. Continued, held on; perseuered in; prolonged, drawne out in length, perpetuated.

Continuël: m. ëlle: f. Continuall, perpetuall, vnstinted, without intermission, daylie, that euer dureth.

Continuëllement. Continually, incessantly, without stop, or stint; perpetually, euerlastingly, for euer.

Continuër. To continue, last, hold out; proceed, perseuer, hold on; to perpetuate, prolong, draw out in length.

Continuïté. Continuation; a wholenesse; an intirenesse, or intire coniunction.  Solution de continuïté. The diuision of a whole part, or thing.

Contoir: m. A Closet, or Counting-house.

Contorsion: f. A contorsion; a wrything, wresting, drawing, or pulling awry.  Contorsion de maschoire. A disease whereby the lower iaw is drawne altogether awry.

Contour: m. le contour d'une ville. The compasse, or whole round of territorie, or ground, lying next vnto, and about, a towne.

Contourements fievreux. The turnings, tossings, and other vnquiet stirrings of those that haue an ague.

Contournable: com. Plyable; which may be turned any way.

Contournant. Turning, wheeling, winding about.  Contournant la teste comme vn Singe qui avalle pillules. Wheeling his head like a Mare ouer thistles.

Contourné: m. ée: f. Turned round, wheeled, or compassed about.

Contournement: m. A nimble turning, or winding.

Contourner. To round, turne round, wheele, compasse about.

Contract: m. A contract, bargaine, agreement; a coaping; treatie; couenant.

Contractation: f. A bargaining, contracting, couenanting with.

Contracte: m. as Contract. Contracté: m. ée: f. Contracted, bargained, agreed; coaped, or couenanted with.

Contracter. To contract, bargain, agree; to coape, chaffer, couenant with.

Contraction de nerfs: f. The Crampe; a conuulsion, or shrinking of the sinewes.

Contracture: f. A contraction, straitening, gathering, or drawing vp narrower and narrower; a making smaller in one place then in another.

Contradiction: f. A contradiction, gainsaying, thwarting; a crosse word, or speech.

Contrahant: m. ante: f. Contracting, or making a contract.

Contraignable: com. Constrainable, compellable.

Contraigneur. A forcer, compeller, constrainer.

Contrainct: m. cte: f. Constrained, compelled, forced, thrust, or put, on against his will.  Le bransle contrainct. The shaking of the sheets.

Contraincte: f. Constraint, violence, compulsion.  À toute contraincte. Most strictly, in all extremitie.  Sans contraincte. Freely, willingly, of his owne accord.

Contrainctement. Forcibly, violently, by compulsion, by constraint.

Contraindre. To constraine, compell, force, thrust forward, or against his will.

Contraire: com. Contrarie, aduerse; against, much disagreeing; also, directly oueragainst.  Au contraire. Contrariwise, on the other side, or part, much otherwise; also, oueragainst.

Contrarié: m. ée: f. Contraried, crossed, impugned, thwarted, resisted, withstood, or strouen against.

Contrarier à. To contrarie, crosse, thwart, impugne; resist, withstand, striue, or be against.

Contrarieté: f. Contrarietie; extreame difference, maine opposition, mightie disagreemrnt.  Contraste: m. Withstanding, strife, contention, difference, repugnance.

Contrasté: m. ée: f. Withstood, striuen, contended against.

Contraster. To striue, withstand, contend against.

Contravention. as Contrevention.

Contre. (Substantiuely, as) faire le contre. ''To second, assist, helpe forward; and (in Musicke) to beare the burden; or sing the Plainesong whereon another descants. Looke'' Faire.