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adversaria

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Ad`ver`sa´ri`a
n. pl.1.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.
adversaria
1. a commonplace book.
2. a miscellany, in published or other collected form.
See also: Books


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: Solebam in adversaria regerere si qua mihi inter profitendum interpretatio excidisset quae paulo iucundiorem ex humanitatis studiis originem traheret, ne scilicet tetricae istius severaeque legalis disciplinae supercilium imminuerem et, quod proverbio dicitur, congregare cum leonibus vulpes viderer.
Alciato and the grammarians: the law and the humanities in the ... by Drysdall, Denis L. / Renaissance Quarterly
In his entry on "cornix" he, too, mentions the connotation "door-knocker," for which he refers to the French humanist Adrianus Turnebus and his Adversaria (1564; bk.
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