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单词 adversant
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adversantadj.

Brit. /ədˈvəːs(ə)nt/, U.S. /ədˈvərs(ə)nt/
Forms: late Middle English aduersand, late Middle English aduersaunte, late Middle English–1500s aduersaunt, 1500s aduersant, 1600s–1700s 1900s– adversant.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin adversant-, adversāns, adversārī.
Etymology: < classical Latin adversant-, adversāns, present participle of adversārī adverse v. Compare Middle French aversant hostile, unfavourable (c1482 or earlier), present participle of averser adverse v.With the form aduersand compare -and suffix1.
Now rare.
Opposing, adverse, hostile, unfavourable (to something).
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adjective] > unfavourable
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bada1325
contraryinga1340
adversea1393
frowarda1400
contrairc1400
fremd1423
adversant?a1425
sinister1432
perversea1450
undisposed1456
sinistral?a1475
contrary1477
favourless1509
unfriendlya1513
thwarting1530
wayward?1544
contrariant1548
disfavourable1561
cross1565
unindifferent1565
sinistrous1566
haggard1578
unkindly1579
backward1582
awkward1587
improsperous1598
thwart1610
unpropitious1613
averted1619
untoward1621
averse1623
impropitious1638
sinister1726
unfavourable1748
untowardly1756
unfavouring1835
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 56v (MED) Þe medicacions beyng aduersand [L. adversantibus], it bihoueþ not [etc.].
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 553 (MED) Bestis aduersaunt [L. animalia inimica] hem wol eschewe.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 87 (MED) Stylle in nature..couerenge thynges aduersaunte [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. yuel happes and meschief; L. adversa] with silence.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John ix. f. 40 Even when aduersaunt misery is immynent [L. ingruente calamitate miserabili].
1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe 408 Our Saviours advise to Martha,..is no way adversant to my intended choyce.
1655 H. Vaughan tr. H. Nolle Hermetical Physick xi. 97 Medicines..ought..to have some correspondence with the nature of the disease, but in their Energie and effect, they must be adversant.
1785 R. Hinde Mod. Pract. Chancery 368 The party adversant or defendant shall have liberty to join in the examination of the same witnesses.
1946 Hammond (Indiana) Times 12 May 4/5 Zoning of area..as light industrial rather than heavy industrial, because of ‘adversant influence of heavy industry on a densely populated residential area’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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