Meaning of make against | Babel Free

Definitions

To be unfavourable to; to work against.

archaic

Examples

“If the Authour will but persist in his assumption, the consequence shall make⟳ directly against him.”

“The neglect⟳ of not answering your obliging letter wrote soon after your arrival at Calcutta, I confess makes very bad against me, but the truth is that I could give⟳ no other answer⟳ to what you mentioned concerning your Nephew than that it was not in my power to serve⟳ him […].”

“And as there is no argument so good, but that being carried too far it will make⟳ against its purpose […].”

“I must take⟳ more exercise than I have⟳ done for time past—it will make⟳ against my Studies but it is better to have⟳ health to preach what I now know⟳ ... than to know⟳ more and not be able to preach at all.”

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