Alexander Dyce, A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works

opposite an adversary: “too unhurtful an opposite,” MEASURE FOR MEASURE, iii. 2. 155 ; “his opposite, the youth,” TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 2. 60 ; “your opposite hath in him,” TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4. 221 ; “bloody and fatal opposite,” TWELFTH NIGHT, iii. 4. 255 ; “weigh against his opposite,” 2 HENRY IV., i. 3. 55 ; “meeting of their opposite,” 2 HENRY IV., iv. 1. 16 ; “Daring an opposite to every danger,” RICHARD III., v. 4. 3 ; “discover him their opposite,” CORIOLANUS, ii. 2. 19 ; “An unknown opposite,” KING LEAR, v. 3. 153 ; “opposites of such repairing nature” 2 HENRY VI., v. 3. 22. (see repair)