adversaria

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You have an adversaria of title-pages of your own contrivance, and which your authors are to write books to.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

Morbi pernicies, gravis adversaria mortis. quoted in the appendix, p. xxxii, to S. de Renzi's, Storia Documentata della Scuola Medica di Salerno, Naples, 1857.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine

The title has a pugnacious sound, but Morgagni did not indulge in controversy and adversaria is only the Latin name for note-books.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

To prolong these vagrant adversaria would not be difficult.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin

These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah