make against

Verb

 * 1)  To be unfavourable to; to work against.
 * 2) * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
 * If the Authour will but persist in his assumption, the consequence shall make directly against him.
 * 1) * 1823 Joshua Nichols Glenn, Diary (Saturday 7 June 1823):
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1823 Joshua Nichols Glenn, Diary (Saturday 7 June 1823):
 * 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.