Contraindicate: alternatives and connections

A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of t…

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influenc…

Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit ad…

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, be…

Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care…

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…

To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's cl…

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration;…

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed.

Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.

A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.

A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining s…

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.

To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or t…

Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses source or possession. It corresponds to th…