Contribution
(Con`tri*bu"tion) n. [L. contributio: cf. F. contribution.]
1. The act of contributing.
2. That which is contributed; — either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or
the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.
A certain contribution for the poor saints which are at jerusalem.
Rom. xv. 26.
Aristotle's actual contributions to the physical sciences.
Whewell.
3. (Mil.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
These sums, . . . and the forced contributions paid by luckless peasants, enabled him to keep his
straggling troops together.
Motley.
4. (Law) Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by
one of their number for the common benefit.
Contributional
(Con`tri*bu"tion*al) a. Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.
Contributive
(Con*trib"u*tive) a. Contributing, or tending to contribute. Fuller.
Contributor
(Con*trib"u*tor) n. One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles
for a newspaper or magazine.
Contributory
(Con*trib"u*to*ry) a. Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing
assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton.
Bonfires of contributory wood.
Chapman.
Contributory negligence (Law), negligence by an injured party, which combines with the negligence
of the injurer in producing the injury, and which bars recovery when it is the proximate cause of the injury.
Wharton.
Contributory
(Con*trib"u*to*ry), n.; pl. Contributories One who contributes, or is liable to be called
upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness. Abbott.
Contrist
(Con*trist") v. t. [Cf. F. contrister. See Contristate.] To make sad. [Obs.]
To deject and contrist myself.
Sterne.
Contristate
(Con*tris"tate) v. t. & i. [L. contristatus, p. p. of contristare to sadden; con- + tristis sad.]
To make sorrowful. [Obs.] Bacon.
Contrite
(Con"trite) a. [L. contritus bruised, p. p. of contrere to grind, bruise; con- + terere to rub,
grind: cf. F. contrit See Trite.]
1. Thoroughly bruised or broken. [Obs.]
2. Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly
and thoroughly penitent.
A contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Ps. li. 17.
Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.
Milton.
