make head against

Verb

 * 1)  To attack or take up arms against (someone).
 * 2)  To resist, oppose.
 * 3) * 1600, (attributed), An Exposition of the Two First Verses of the Sixt Chapter to the Hebrewes in Forme of a Dialogue, London: Thomas Man, Sermon 26, p. 348,
 * Such is then this gallaunt and holie confidence of the spouse to braue her enemies, in whose person the Apostle speaking, wee see how hee beareth downe euerie high thing which presumeth to make head against God
 * 1)  To resist, oppose.
 * 2) * 1600, (attributed), An Exposition of the Two First Verses of the Sixt Chapter to the Hebrewes in Forme of a Dialogue, London: Thomas Man, Sermon 26, p. 348,
 * Such is then this gallaunt and holie confidence of the spouse to braue her enemies, in whose person the Apostle speaking, wee see how hee beareth downe euerie high thing which presumeth to make head against God