contravene

verb

1. (transitive)To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.

   “[…] nothing is a commandement, or a commanded dutie but that which if we contravene, it maketh us guilty of sin before God,”

   “[…] this Article directly contravenes the Treaty with Portugal […]”

   “I have shown that slavery is wicked […] in that it contravenes the laws of eternal justice, and tramples in the dust all the humane and heavenly precepts of the New Testament.”

   “[…] the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate’s ultimate decisions;”

   “It was a construction in wood, with manifold “features” suggestive of the villa, the bungalow, the chateau, the palace; it united all tastes and contravened all conventions.”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To deny the truth of something.

   “1653, William Birchley, The Christian Moderator, Part 3, London: Richard Lowndes, p. 7, […] to make the contravening of Doctrines, to be capitall, before they be fully proved, is prejudiciall to that liberty, without which none can justify himself before God or Man:”

   “To contravene positions, that have been discussed again and again by writers of the first genius and erudition, and to disparage the genuineness of the bible histories wholly and indiscriminately, without some precision of investigation, some specific allegations, founded on the report of authentic documents, is intolerable arrogance […]”

   “That the detention of the troops was a wise measure, is not to be contravened;”

   “This is a large octavo of more than five hundred pages, a cool, scientific collection of facts that cannot be contravened, leading up to the inescapable conclusion […]”