"make against" meaning in All languages combined

See make against on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: makes against [present, singular, third-person], making against [participle, present], made against [participle, past], made against [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> against}} make against (third-person singular simple present makes against, present participle making against, simple past and past participle made against)
  1. (now rare) To be unfavourable to; to work against. Tags: archaic

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)",
          "text": "If the Authour will but persist in his assumption, the consequence shall make directly against him."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1779, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 83:",
          "text": "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 […].",
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          "text": "And as there is no argument so good, but that being carried too far it will make against its purpose […].",
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        {
          "ref": "1823 Joshua Nichols Glenn, Diary (Saturday 7 June 1823)",
          "text": "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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        "(now rare) To be unfavourable to; to work against."
      ],
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        },
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          "ref": "1779, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 83:",
          "text": "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 […].",
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          "ref": "1823 Joshua Nichols Glenn, Diary (Saturday 7 June 1823)",
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