"make against" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes against",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> against"
      },
      "expansion": "make against (third-person singular simple present makes against, present participle making against, simple past and past participle made against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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 […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819, “Stone”, in Abraham Rees, editor, The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, volume 34",
          "text": "And as there is no argument so good, but that being carried too far it will make against its purpose […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be unfavourable to; to work against."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_against-en-verb-GP~GSAZg",
      "links": [
        [
          "unfavourable",
          "unfavourable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To be unfavourable to; to work against."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make against"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes against",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made against",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made against",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> against"
      },
      "expansion": "make against (third-person singular simple present makes against, present participle making against, simple past and past participle made against)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (against)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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 […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1819, “Stone”, in Abraham Rees, editor, The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, volume 34",
          "text": "And as there is no argument so good, but that being carried too far it will make against its purpose […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be unfavourable to; to work against."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unfavourable",
          "unfavourable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To be unfavourable to; to work against."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make against"
}