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Definition of adversary
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of adversary is as below...
Adversary
(n.) One who is
turned
against
another
or
others
with a
design
to
oppose
or
resist
them; a
member
of an
opposing
or
hostile
party;
an
opponent;
an
antagonist;
an
enemy;
a foe.
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Inversion
::
Inversion
(n.) A
method
of
reasoning
in which the
orator
shows that
arguments
advanced
by his
adversary
in
opposition
to him are
really
favorable
to his
cause.
Schesis
::
Schesis
(n.) A
figure
of
speech
whereby
the
mental
habitude
of an
adversary
or
opponent
is
feigned
for the
purpose
of
arguing
against
him.
Antagonist
::
Antagonist
(n.) One who
contends
with
another,
especially
in
combat;
an
adversary;
an
opponent..
Occurrent
::
Occurrent
(n.) One who
meets;
hence,
an
adversary..
Mercy
::
Mercy (n.)
Forbearance
to
inflict
harm under
circumstances
of
provocation,
when one has the power to
inflict
it;
compassionate
treatment
of an
offender
or
adversary;
clemency..
Paraleipsis
::
Paraleipsis
(n.) A
pretended
or
apparent
omission;
a
figure
by which a
speaker
artfully
pretends
to pass by what he
really
mentions;
as, for
example,
if an
orator
should
say, I do not speak of my
adversary's
scandalous
venality
and
rapacity,
his
brutal
conduct,
his
treachery
and
malice..
Antistrophe
::
Antistrophe
(n.) The
retort
or
turning
of an
adversary's
plea
against
him.
Adversary
::
Adversary
(a.)
Having
an
opposing
party;
not
unopposed;
as, an
adversary
suit..
Check
::
Check (n.) A word of
warning
denoting
that the king is in
danger;
such a
menace
of a
player's
king by an
adversary's
move as
would,
if it were any other
piece,
expose
it to
immediate
capture.
A king so
menaced
is said to be in
check,
and must be made safe at the next
move..
Check
::
Check (v. t.) To make a move which puts an
adversary's
piece,
esp. his king, in
check;
to put in
check..
Adversary
::
Adversary
(a.)
Opposed;
opposite;
adverse;
antagonistic.
Hit
::
Hit (n.) A game won at
backgammon
after the
adversary
has
removed
some of his men. It
counts
less than a
gammon.
Dismount
::
Dismount
(v. t.) To throw or
remove
from a
horse;
to
unhorse;
as, the
soldier
dismounted
his
adversary..
Clutch
::
Clutch
(n.) The
hands,
claws,
or
talons,
in the act of
grasping
firmly;
-- often
figuratively,
for
power,
rapacity,
or
cruelty;
as, to fall into the
clutches
of an
adversary..
Pique
::
Pique (n.) In
piquet,
the right of the elder hand to count
thirty
in hand, or to play
before
the
adversary
counts
one..
Hip
::
Hip (v. t.) To throw
(one's
adversary)
over one's hip in
wrestling
(technically
called
cross
buttock).
Checkmate
::
Checkmate
(v. t.) To check (an
adversary's
king) in such a
manner
that
escape
in
impossible;
to
defeat
(an
adversary)
by
putting
his king in check from which there is no
escape.
Force
::
Force (n.) To
compel
(an
adversary
or
partner)
to trump a trick by
leading
a suit of which he has none.
Quarte
::
Quarte
(n.) A
position
in
thrusting
or
parrying,
with the
inside
of the hand
turned
upward
and the point of the
weapon
toward
the
adversary's
right
breast..
Paromology
::
Paromology
(n.) A
concession
to an
adversary
in order to
strengthen
one's own
argument.
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