contradictional

English

Etymology

From contradiction +‎ -al.

Adjective

contradictional (comparative more contradictional, superlative most contradictional)

1. contradictory; inconsistent; opposing
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:

     We have tri'd already , & miserably felt what ambition worldly glory & immoderat wealth can do, what the boistrous & contradictional hand of a temporall

References

• “contradictional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.