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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