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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[L.

adversaria

(sc.

scripta

), neut. pl. of

adversarius

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul’s

adversaria

Bp. Bull.

Noun.

[L. from adversus. See Adverse.]

Among the ancients, a book of accounts, so named from the placing of debt and credit in opposition to each other. A commonplace book.