Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AD-VERS-A'RI-A
AD-VERB'I-AL-LYAD-VER-SA'RI-OUS
AD-VERS-A'RI-A, n. [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 common-place book. – Encyc.
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