Definition of "contradictious"

The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 89

If he had taken a contradictious tone on purpose to draw Mrs. Luna out, he could not have elicited more of the information he desired.

1886, Henry James, The Bostonians, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co.