单词 | adversant |
释义 | adversantadj. Now rare. Opposing, adverse, hostile, unfavourable (to something). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adjective] > unfavourable contrariousc1320 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). < adj.?a1425 |
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