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▪ I. adverse, a. and n.|ˈædvɜːs|
[a. MFr. advers, -e refashioned f. OFr. avers, auvers:—L. adversus turned towards, turned against, hostile, pa. pple. of advert-ĕre, f. ad to + vert-ĕre to turn. Poets have accented both ˈadverse and adˈverse.]
A. adj.
1. Acting against or in opposition to, opposing, contrary, antagonistic, actively hostile. Const. to.
c1440Partonope 5716 That to crystes lawe ys aduerse And leeveth on machoun. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 12 English volunteers served during those wars, in adverse armies. 1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 172 When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes. 1628Digby Voy. to Medit. 47 The aduerse windes had hindered my designe of going. 1667Milton P.L. i. 103 His utmost power with adverse power opposed. 1798Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 210 The general spirit, even of the merchants, is becoming adverse to it. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. i. 805 On life's rough sea they sail With many a prosperous, many an adverse gale. 1868Helps Realmah viii. (1876) 239 To go over to the side of their adverse critics.
b. Law.
1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xxiii. 177 What I may call adverse possession, which now is a possession by a person not the owner during a certain number of years without acknowledgment of the right of the real owner, and yet not necessarily in open defiance of him.
2. Opposing any one's interests (real or supposed); hence, unfavourable, hurtful, detrimental, injurious, calamitous, afflictive. Const. to.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1192, O cruel Joue and thou fortune aduerse. 1490Caxton Eneydos i. 13 But the prosperous fortune of the kynge pryam torned in to aduerse. 1601Shakes. All's Well v. i. 26 Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit. 1671Milton Samson 192 In prosperous days They swarm, but in adverse withdraw their head. 1806–31A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 96 Strengthened instead of being shaken by adverse circumstances. 1867Bright Sp., Amer. (1876) 146 The presidential election of 1860 was adverse to the cause of slavery.
3. Opposite in position.
1623Bingham Xenophon 77 The Macrons..stood imbattled on the aduerse side of the riuer. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Adversaria..so called because the notes were written on the adverse or opposite page. 1872Blackie Lays of Highl. 167 He looked upon the bright green slope, that skirts the adverse hills.
B. n. An adverse party, an adversary. rare.
1850Blackie æschylus II. 183 If Jove hath worsted This Typhon in the fight, we too shall worst Our adverse.
▪ II. † adˈverse, v. Obs. rare—1.
[a. MFr. a(d)verse-r:—L. adversā-ri to be opposed, f. adversus adverse a.]
To be opposed or adverse to, to oppose.
1393Gower Conf. I. 219 It was a presage..Of that fortune him shulde adverse. |