| Title: | Adversary |
| Original Title: | Adversaire |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 149 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Hansen [McGill University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Adversary." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Hansen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.709>. Trans. of "Adversaire," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Adversary." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Hansen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.709 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Adversaire," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:149 (Paris, 1751). |
Adversary. See Antagonist, Opponent, Combat, Duel, etc.
This word comes from the Latin preposition adversus , against, made up of ad , towards, and vertere , to turn. In the courts it designates the party opposed to the one engaged in legal proceedings.