adversarious
English
Adjective
adversarious (comparative more adversarious, superlative most adversarious)
- (archaic) hostile; adversarial
- 1826, Robert Southey, Letters to Charles Butler, Esq.
- It is only when actually engaged in this vindication that I can regard you as an adversary: in the intervals, when that occupation is suspended, I am not sensible of any adversarious feeling
- 1826, Robert Southey, Letters to Charles Butler, Esq.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for adversarious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)