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‖ adversaria, n. pl.|ædvəˈsɛərɪə|
Also in Eng. form adversaries.
[L. adj. pl. adversāria (sc. scripta) things written on the side fronting us (i.e. on one side of the paper), notes, a commonplace book; f. adversus: see adverse. Prop. pl., but in Eng. usage often a collective sing.]
A commonplace-book, a place in which to note things as they occur; collections of miscellaneous remarks or observations, = miscellanea; also commentaries or notes on a text or writing.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 237 As P. Pœna in his Adversaries or Commentaries of plants hath noticed. 1713G. Bull Serm. (J.) These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Morhof speaks much of the use and advantages of such adversaria to men of letters. 1842Whittock Compl. Bk. Trades 482 We never spent an hour more at our repose, than in silent attention to the political adversaria of this benevolent man. |