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- Being a computer-readable version of the Roget's Thesaurus published
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- ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES
-
- CLASS I
- WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS
-
- SECTION I. EXISTENCE
-
- 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT
-
-
- #1. Existence.-- N. existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence
- reality, actuality; positiveness &c.. adj.; fact, matter of fact,
- sober reality; truth &c. 494; actual existence.
- presence &c.. (existence in space) 186; coexistence &c.. 120.
- stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c. 515; no joke.
- center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital
- principle.
- [Science of existence], ontology.
- V. exist, be; have being &c. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand,
- obtain, be the case; occur &c. (event) 151; have place, prevail; find
- oneself, pass the time, vegetate.
- consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted
- by.
- come into existence &c. n.; arise &c. (begin) 66; come forth &c.
- (appear) 446. become &c. (be converted) 144; bring into existence &c. 161.
- abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
- Adj. existing &c. v. existent, under the sun; in existence &c. n.;
- extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed.
- real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c. 494; substantial,
- substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.
- well-founded well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential &c. 2;
- authentic.
- Adv. actually &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed;
- de facto, ipso facto.
- Phr. ens rationis; ergo sum cogito: "thinkest thou existence doth
- depend on time?" [Byron].
-
-
- #2. Inexistence.-- N. inexistence; nonexistence, nonsubsistence;
- nonentity, nil; negativeness &c. adj.; nullity; nihility, nihilism; tabula
- rasa, blank; abeyance; absence &c. 187; no such thing &c. 4; nonbeing,
- nothingness, oblivion.
- annihilation; extinction &c. (destruction) 162; extinguishment,
- extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.
- V. not exist &c. 1; have no existence &c. 1; be null and void; cease
- to exist &c.. 1; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct &c. adj.;
- die out; disappear &c. 449; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind;
- go, be no more; die &c. 360.
- annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c.. 756; destroy &c. 162;
- take away; remove &c. (displace) 185; obliterate, extirpate.
- Adj. inexistent, nonexistent &c. 1; negative, blank; missing, omitted;
- absent &c. 187,; insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary.
- unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus; unsubstantial &c..
- 4; vain. unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade.
- perished, annihilated, &c. v.; extinct, exhausted, gone, lost,
- vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct &c. (dead) 360.
- fabulous, ideal &c. (imaginary) 515, supposititious &c. 514.
- Adv negatively, virtually &c.. adj.
- Phr. non ens.
-
- <-- p. 1 -->
-
-
- 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE
-
- #3. Substantiality. -- N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being,
- thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature,
- body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff , substratum; matter &c. 316;
- corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality,
- substantialness, vital part.
- [Totality of existences], world &c. 318; plenum.
- Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible
- &c. (material) 316; corporeal.
- Adv. substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially.
-
-
-
- #4. Unsubstantiality. -- N. unsubstantiality, insubstantiality;
- nothingness, nihility; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.
- nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a
- one, ne'er a one; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever,
- nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c.. (smallness) 32; all
- talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no
- consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe,
- faggot voter; nominis umbra, nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea
- nihil.
- shadow; phantom &c.,(fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (imagination)
- 515; ignis fatuus &c.. (luminary) 423; " such stuff as dreams are made of "
- [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble &c. 353; " baseless fabric of a
- vision " [Tempest]; mockery.
- hollowness, blank; void &c. (absence) 187.
- inanity, fool's paradise.
- V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear &c. 449.
- Adj. unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without
- foundation, having no foundation.
- visionary &c. (imaginary) 515; immaterial &c.. 137; spectral &c. 980;
- dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery,
- illusory, insubstantial, unreal.
- vacant, vacuous; empty &c.. 187; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal;
- null; inane.
- Phr. there's nothing in it; " an ocean of dreams without a sound"
- [Shelley].
-
-
- 3. FORMAL EXISTENCE
-
- Internal conditions
-
-
- #5. Intrinsicality.-- N. intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion;
- subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence; essentialness &c.. adj.; essential
- part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap,
- lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part &c.. (importance) 642.
- principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis,
- diathesis.
- habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.
- endowment, capacity; capability &c.. (power) 157.
- moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality)
- 79; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c.. (tendency) 176; diagnostics.
- V. be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic &c. adj.
- Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical;
- fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent,.essential, natural; innate,
- inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous,
- haematobious, syngenic radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary,
- inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite|; connate, running in the blood;
- ingenerate, ingenite|; indigenous; in the grain &c. n.; bred in the bone,
- instinctive; inward, internal &c.. 221; to the manner born; virtual.
- characteristic &c. (special) 79, (indicative) 550; invariable,
- incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.
- Adv. intrinsically &c. adj.; at bottom, in the main, in effect,
- practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly.
- Phr. " character is higher than intellect " [Emerson]; "come give us a
- taste of your quality " [ Hamlet] magnos homines virtute metimur non
- fortuna [Nepos]; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere [Cicero]; " vital
- spark of heavenly flame " [Pope].
-
-
-
- External conditions
-
-
- #6. Extrinsicality.-- N. extrinsicality, objectiveness, non ego;
- extraneousness &c.. 57; accident.
- Adj. derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical;
- extraneous &c.. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious,
- adscititious; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent, fortuitous.
- implanted, ingrafted; inculcated, infused.
- outward &c.. (external) 220.
- Adv. extrinsically &c. adj.
-
-
- <-- p. 2 -->
- 4. MODAL EXISTENCE
-
- Absolute
- #7. State. -- N. state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim,
- mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect &c. (appearance) 448, dilemma, pass,
- predicament.
- constitution, habitude, diathesis; frame, fabric &c. 329; stamp, set,
- fit, mold, mould.
- mode, modality, schesis; form &c.. (shape) 240.
- tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style,
- character.
- V. be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state
- &c. n.; be on a footing, do, fare; come to pass.
- Adj. conditional, modal, formal; structural, organic.
- Adv. conditionally &c.. adj.; as the matter stands, as things are;
- such being the case &c. 8.
-
- Relative
-
- #8. Circumstance. -- N. circumstance, situation, phase, position,
- posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.
- occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency &c. (event) 151.
- predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass,
- push; occurrence; turning point.
- bearings, how the land lies.
- surroundings, context, environment 229a[TE 232]; location 184.
- contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; causation 153, attribution
- 155.
- Adj. circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal;
- contingent, incidental; adventitious &c. (extrinsic) 6; limitative.
- Adv. in the circumstances, under the circumstances &c.. n., the
- circumstances, conditions &c. 7; thus, in such wise.
- accordingly; that being the case, such being the case, in view of the
- circumstances; that being so, sith, since, seeing that.
- as matters stand; as things go, as times go.
- conditionally, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be so;
- depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain
- conditions; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in such a
- contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally, unless,
- without.
- according to circumstances, according to the occasion; as it may
- happen, as it may turn out,as it may be; as the case may be, as the wind
- blows; pro re nata.
- Phr. " yet are my sins not those of circumstance " [Lytton].
-
- <-- p. 3 -->
-
-
- SECTION II. RELATION
-
- . 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION
- #9. Relation. -- N. relation, bearing, reference, connection,
- concern,. cognation ; correlation &c. 12; analogy; similarity &c. 17;
- affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation &c..
- (nearness) 197; filiation &c. (consanguinity) 11; interest; relevancy &c.
- 23; dependency, relationship, relative position.
- comparison &c. 464; ratio, proportion.
- link, tie, bond of union.
- V. be related &c. adj.; have a relation &c. n.; relate to, refer to;
- bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to,
- belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest.
- bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw
- a parallel; link &c. 43.
- Adj. relative; correlative &c.. 12; cognate; relating to &c. v.;
- relative to, in relation with, referable or referrible to; belonging to &c.
- v.; appurtenant to, in common with.
- related, connected; implicated, associated, affiliated, allied to; en
- rapport, in touch with.
- approximative, approximating; proportional, proportionate,
- proportionable; allusive, comparable.
- in the same category &c. 75; like &c. 17; relevant &c. (apt) 23;
- applicable, equiparant.
- Adv. relatively &c. adj.; pertinently &c. 23.
- thereof; as to, as for, as respects, as regards; about; concerning &c.
- v.; anent; relating to, as relates to; with relation, with reference to,
- with respect to,with regard to; in respect of; while speaking of, a propos
- of; in connection with; by the way, by the by; whereas; for as much as, in
- as much as; in point of, as far as; on the part of, on the score of; quoad
- hoc; pro re nata; under the head of &c.. (class) 75 of; in the matter of,
- in re.
- Phr. " thereby hangs a tale " [Taming of the Shrew].
-
- #10. [Want, or absence of relation.] Irrelation. -- N. irrelation,
- dissociation; misrelation; inapplicability; inconnection; multifariousness;
- disconnection &c. (disjunction) 44; inconsequence, independence;
- incommensurability; irreconcilableness &c. (disagreement) 24;
- heterogeneity; unconformity &c. 83; irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad
- rem; intrusion &c.. 24; non-pertinence.
- V. have no relation to &c. 9; have no bearing upon, have no concern
- with &c. 9 , have no business with; not concern &c.. 9; have no business
- there, have nothing to do with,
- intrude &c. 24.
- bring in head and shoulders, drag in head and shoulders, lug in head
- and shoulders.
- Adj. irrelative, irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary; independent,
- unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous,
- strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.
- not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable &c. 83.
- irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent,
- inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes; aside from the purpose,,
- away from the purpose,, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside
- the question, beside the transaction, beside the point; misplaced &c.
- (intrusive) 24; traveling out of the record.
- remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there,
- quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant.
- multifarious; discordant &c.. 24.
- incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.
- Adv. parenthetically &c. adj.; by the way, by the by; en passant,
- incidentally; irrespectively &c. adj.; without reference to, without regard
- to; in the abstract &c. 87; a se.
-
-
- RELATIONS
- #11. [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity. -- N. consanguinity,
- relationship, kindred, blood; parentage &c.. (paternity) 166; filiation,
- affiliation; lineage, agnation, connection, alliance; family connection,
- family tie; ties of blood; nepotism.
- kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection; sib;
- next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-german; first
- cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice &c. removed; near
- relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood.
- family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood.
- race, stock, generation; sept &c.. 166; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan,
- tribe, nation.
- V. be related to &c. adj. claim relationship with &c. n. with.
- Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied,
- collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal.
-
- <-- p. 4 -->
-
- intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related,
- distantly related, allied; german.
-
- #12. [Double or reciprocal relation.] Correlation. -- N.
- reciprocalness &c.. adj.; reciprocity, reciprocation; mutuality,
- correlation, interdependence, connection, link, association; interchange
- &c. 148; exchange, barter.
- reelprocitist.
- V. reciprocate, alternate; interchange &c.. 148; exchange;
- counterchange.
- Adj. reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative; alternate;
- interchangeable; international; complemental, complementary.
- Adv. mutatis mutandis; vice versa; each other, one another; by turns
- &c. 148; reciprocally & c. adj.
- Phr. " happy in our mutual help " [Milton].
-
- #13. Identity. -- N. identity, sameness; coincidence, coalescence;
- convertibility; equality &c. 27; selfness, self, oneself; identification.
- monotony, tautology &c. (repetition) 104.
- facsimile &c. (copy) 21; homoousia: alter ego &c. (similar) 17;
- ipsissima verba &c. (exactness) 494; same; self, very , one and the same;
- very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh.
- V. be identical &c. adj.; coincide, coalesce, merge.
- treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify; recognize
- the identity of, .
- Adj. identical; self, ilk; the same &c. n. selfsame, one and the same,
- homoousian.
- coincide, coalescent, coalescing; indistinguishable; one; equivalent
- &c. (equal) 27; tweedle dee and tweedle dum; much the same, of a muchness;
- unaltered. .
- Adv. identically &c. adj.; on all fours.
-
-
- #14. [Noncoincidence.] Contrariety. N. contrariety, contrast, foil,
- antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism &c. (opposition) 708;
- clashing, repugnance.
- inversion &c. 218; the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the
- converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme.
- V. be contrary &c. adj.; contrast with, oppose; diller toto coelo.
- invert, reverse, turn the tables; turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end,
- turn upside down, turn inside out.
- contradict, contravene; antagonize &c.. 708.
- Adj. contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead
- against; converse, reverse; opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean,
- antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross
- purposes; negative; hostile &c.. 703. differing toto coelo; diametrically
- opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as black and white, as
- opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite
- as the poles; as different as night and day; " Hyperion to a satyr"[
- Hamlet]; quite the contrary, quite the reverse ;no such thing, just the
- other way, tout au contraire.
- Adv. contrarily &c. adj.; contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the
- contrary, nay rather; vice versa; on the other hand &c. (in compensation)
- 30.
- Phr. " all concord's born of contraries " [B. Jonson]. Thesis,
- antithesis, synthesis [Marx]
-
- #15. Difference. -- N. difference; variance, variation, variety;
- diversity, dissimilarity &c.. 18; disagreement &c. 24; disparity &c.
- (inequality) 28; distinction, contradistinction; alteration.
- modification, permutation, moods and tenses.
- nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle
- distinction; shade of difference, nuance; discrimination &c.. 465;
- differentia.
- different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair
- of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other.
- V. be different &c. adj.; differ, vary, ablude|, mismatch, contrast;
- divaricate; differ toto coelo, differ longo intervallo.
- vary, modify &c.. (change) 140.
- discriminate &c. 465.
- Adj. differing &c.. v.; different, diverse, heterogeneous,
- multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified;
- diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform &c. 81;
- daedal.
- other, another, not the same; unequal &c. 28. unmatched; widely apart,
- poles apart, distinctive, characteristic, ; discriminative; distinguishing.
- Adv. differently &c. adj.
- Phr. il y a fagots et fagots.
-
- <-- p. 5 -->
-
-
- 2. CONTINUOUS RELATION
-
-
- #16. Uniformity. -- N. uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness;
- consistency; connaturality, connaturalness; homology; accordance;
- conformity &c. 82; agreement &c. 23; consonance, uniformness. regularity,
- constancy, even tenor,.routine; monotony.
- V. be uniform &c. adj.; accord with &c.. 23; run through.
- become uniform &c. adj.; conform to &c. 82.
- render uniform, homogenize &c. adj.; assimilate, level, smooth, dress.
- Adj. uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece, consistent, connatural;
- monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged, undeviating, unvaried,
- unvarying.
- Adv. uniformly &c. adj.; uniformly with &c. (conformably) 82; in harmony
- with &c.. (agreeing) 23.
- always, invariably, without exception, without fail, unfailingly,
- never otherwise; by clockwork.
- Phr. ab uno disce omnes.
-
-
- 3. PARTIAL RELATION
-
- #16a. [Absence or want of uniformity.] Nonuniformity. -- N. diversity,
- irregularity, unevenness; multiformity &c. 81; unconformity &c. 83;
- roughness &c. 256; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence.
- Adj. diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough &c. 256;
- multifarious; multiform &c. 81; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts
- of, all kinds of.
- Adv. variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere.
-
-
-
- #17. Similarity. -- N. similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude,
- semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement &c. 23; analogy,
- analogicalness; correspondence, homoiousia, parity.
- connaturalness, connaturality; brotherhood, family likeness.
- alliteration, rhyme, pun.
- repetition &c. 104; sameness &c. (identity) 13; uniformity &c. 16;
- isogamy.
- analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate,
- twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego,
- chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a
- feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille.
- parallel; simile; type &c. (metaphor) 521; image &c. (representation)
- 554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking
- resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.
- V. be similar &c. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack
- of, savor of,; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after;
- imitate &c.. 19; favor, span [U. S.].
- render similar &c. adj.; assimilate, approximate, bring near;
- connaturalize, make alike; rhyme, pun.
- Adj. similar; resembling &c. v.; like, alike; twin.
- analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece; such as, so; homoiousian.
- connatural, congener, allied to; akin to &c. (consanguineous) 1 1.
- approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in
- the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.
- exact &c. (true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to
- life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme
- deux gouttes d'eau; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare;
- instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.
- Adv. as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as,
- veluti in speculum.
- Phr. et sic de similibus; tel maitre tel valet; tel pere tel fils;
- like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn't fall
- far from the tree; a chip off the old block
-
-
- <-- p. 6 -->
-
-
- #18. Dissimilarity. -- N. dissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness,
- diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variation.; difference &c.
- 15; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy.
- V. be unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (differ) 15; bear no resemblance to,
- differ toto coelo.
- render unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (diversify) 140.
- Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind &c.
- (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented &c. 83; original.
- nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it,
- cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, "very
- like a whale " [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as different
- as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo.
- diversified &c. 16a.
- Adv. otherwise.
- Phr. diis aliter visum; " no more like my father than I to Hercules"
- [Hamlet].
-
- #19. Imitation. -- N. imitation; copying &c. v.; transcription;
- repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction;
- mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint.
- mockery, mimiery; simulation, impersonation, personation;
- representation &c. 554; semblance; copy &c. 21; assimilation.
- paraphrase, parody &c. 21.
- plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c. (falsehood) 544; celluloid.
- imitator, echo, cuckoo|, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime;
- copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.
- V. imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo,
- reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.
- mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act &c.
- (drama) 599; represent &c.. 554; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature,
- burlesque.
- follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps
- of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the
- example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike
- in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate.
- Adj. imitated &c. v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on.
- paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish,
- mimicking.
-
- Adv. literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem
- verbis, word for word, mot a mot; exactly, precisely.
-
- Phr.like master like man; " like - but oh! how different! "
- [Wordsworthl; " genius borrows nobly " [Emerson]; pursuing echoes calling
- 'mong the rocks " [A. Coles]; " quotation confesses inferiority "
- [Emerson].
-
-
- #20. Nonimitation. -- N. no imitation; originality; creativeness.
- invention, creation.
- Adj. unimitated, uncopied; unmatched, unparalleled; inimitable &c. 13;
- unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated; exceptional, rare, sui
- generis uncommon, unexampled.
-
-
- #20a. Variation. -- N. variation; alteration &c.. (change) 140.
- modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy.
- divergency &c.. 291; deviation &c. 279; aberration; innovation.
- V. vary &c.. (change) 140; deviate &c. 279; diverge &c. 291; alternate,
- swerve.
- Adj. varied &c. v.; modified; diversified &c.. 16a.
-
- #21. [Result of imitation.] Copy. -- N. copy, facsimile, xerox,
- counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo,
- similitude, semblance, cast, tracing, ectype, photo offset, electrotype;
- imitation &c. 19; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait &c.
- (representment) 554; resemblance.
- duplicate; transcript, transcription; reflex, reflexion, reflection;
- shadow, echo; recording, scan; chip off the old block; reprint,
- reproduction; second edition &c. (repetition) 104; rechauffe; apograph,
- fair copy, revise.
- parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase.
- [copy with some differences] derivative, modification, expansion,
- extension.
- servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake
- &c.(deception) 545; pasticcio.
- Adj. faithful; lifelike &c.. (similar) 17; close, conscientious.
- unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
-
- #22. [Thing copied.] Prototype. -- N. prototype, original, model,
- pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype,
- antitype; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm; lay-
- figure.
- text, copy, design; fugleman, keynote. die, mold; matrix, last, plasm;
- proplasm, protoplasm; mint; seal, punch, intaglio, negative; stamp.
- V. be an example, be a role model, set an example; set a copy. Phr. a
- precedent embalms a principle [Disraeli]; exempla sunt odiosa.
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-
- 4. GENERAL RELATION
-
-
- #23. Agreement. -- N. agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony;
- concord &c. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.
- conformity &c.. 82; conformance; uniforinity &c.. 1*6; consonance,
- consentaneousness, consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping;
- congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.
- fitness, aptness &c. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey;
- sortance|; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability,
- admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation &c. (relation) 9.
- adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation,
- reconcilement; assimilation.
- consent &c. (assent) 488; concurrence &c. 178; cooperation &c. 709.
- right man in the right place, very thing,; quite the thing, just the
- thing.
- V. be accordant &c. adj.; agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally,
- respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime
- in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail,
- assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match &c. 17;
- become one; homologate.
- consent &c.. (assent) 488.
- render accordant &c. adj.; fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate;
- adjust &c. (render, equal) 27; dress, regulate, readjust; accord,
- harmonize,. reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square.
- Adj. agreeing, suiting &c. v.; in accord, accordant, concordant,
- consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent;
- becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in
- harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with, &c. n.; at one with, of one
- mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on
- all fours.
- apt, apposite, pertinent, pat; to the point, to the purpose; happy,
- felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing
- upon, applicable, relevant, admissible.
- fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable,
- suitable, idoneous, deft; meet &c. (expedient) 646.
-
- at home, in one's proper element.
- Adv. a propos of; pertinently &c.. adj.
- Phr. rem acu tetigisti; if the shoe fits, wear it; the cap fits;
- auxilia humilia firma consensus facit [Syrus]; discers concordia [Ovid].
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-
-
- #24. Disagreement. -- N. disagreement; discord, discordance;
- dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity &c.. 83; incongruity,
- incongruence; discongruity, mesalliance; jarring &c. v.; dissension &c.
- 713; conflict &c.. (opposition) 708; bickering, clashing, misunderstanding,
- wrangle.
- disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality;
- disproportionateness &c. adj.; variance, divergence, repugnance.
- unfitness &c. adj.; inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability &c..
- adj.; inconsistency, inconcinnity; irrelevancy &c.. (irrelation) 10.
- misjoining, misjoinder; syncretism, intrusion, interference; concordia
- discors.
- fish out of water.
- V. disagree; clash, jar &c.. (discord) 713; interfere, intrude, come
- amiss; not concern &c. 10; mismatch; humano capiti cervicem jungere
- equinam.
- Adj. disagreeing &c.. v.; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war;
- hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable,
- inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional &c.. 83; intrusive,
- incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated; unharmonious;
- unconsonant; divergent, repugnant to.
- inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable;
- inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming;
- illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite &c..
- (irrelevant) 10. uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched,
- misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible,
- uncommensurable; unsympathetic.
- out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint,
- out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds
- with, at variance with.
- Adv. in defiance, in contempt,in spite of; discordantly &c. adj.; a
- tort et a travers.
- Phr. asinus ad lyram.
-
- SECTION III. Q U A N T I T Y
-
- 1. SIMPLE QUANTITY
-
- #25. [Absolute quantity.] Quantity. -- N. quantity, magnitude; size
- &c. (dimensions) 192; amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum,
- measure, substance, strength, force.
- [Science of quantity.] mathematics, mathesis.
- [Logic.] category, general conception, universal predicament.
- [Definite or finite quantity.] armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful,
- capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle.
- V. quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine, quantitate, enumerate.
- Adj. quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few.
- Adv. to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly,
- precisely..
-
-
-
- #26. [Relative quantity.] Degree. -- N. degree, grade, extent,
- measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude,
- range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station,
- rank, standing; rate, way, sort.
- point, mark, stage &c.. (term) 71; intensity, strength &c. (greatness)
- 31.
- Adj. comparative; gradual, shading off; within the bounds &c. (limit)
- 233.
- Adv. by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto; however, howsoever;
- step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop; a
- little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and
- little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di grado in grado.
-
- 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY
-
- #27. [Sameness of quantity or degree.] Equality. -- N. equality,
- parity, coextension, symmetry, balance, poise; evenness, monotony, level.
- equivalence; equipollence, equipoise, equilibrium, equiponderance;
- par, quits, a wash; not a pin to choose; distinction without a difference,
- six of one and half a dozen of the other; tweedle dee and tweedle dum;
- identity &c. 13; similarity &c.. 17.
- equalization, equation; equilibration, co*ordination, adjustment,
- readjustment. drawn game, drawn battle; neck and neck race; tie, draw,
- standoff, dead heat.
- match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother; equivalent.
- V. be equal &c.. adj.; equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run
- abreast; come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level
- with; balance; cope with; come to the same thing.
- render equal &c. adj.; equalize level, dress, balance, equate,
- handicap, give points, spot points, handicap, trim, adjust, poise; fit,
- accommodate; adapt &c. (render accordant) 23; strike a balance; establish
- equality, restore equality, restore equilibrium; readjust; stretch on the
- bed of Procrustes.
- Adj. equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate;
- on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with; up to the mark;
- equiparant.
- equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous;
- synonymous &c.. 522; resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as
- long, neither more nor less.; much the same as, the same thing as, as good
- as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous,
- equibalanced; equalized &c. v.; drawn; half and half; isochronal,
- isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical; isobath, isobathic.
- Adv. equally &c. adj.; pari passu, ad eundum, caeteris paribus; in
- equilibrio; to all intents and purposes.
-
- Phr. it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing; what
- is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
-
-
-
- #28. [Difference of quantity or degree.] Inequality. -- N. inequality;
- disparity, imparity; odds; difference &c. 15; unevenness; inclination of
- the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make-
- weight; superiority &c. 33; inferiority &c. 34; inequation.
- V. be unequal &c. adj.; countervail; have the advantage, give the
- advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple,topple over; overmatch
- &c.. 33; not come up to &c. 34.
- Adj. unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced;
- top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant.
- Adv. haud passibus aequis [Vergil].
-
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-
- #29. Mean. -- N. mean, medium, intermedium, average, balance,
- mediocrity, generality;median, mode; golden mean &c. (mid-course) 628;
- middle &c.. 68; compromise &c. 774; middle course, middle state;
- neutrality.
- V. split the difference; take the average &c. n.; reduce to a mean &c.
- n.; strike a balance, pair off.
- Adj. mean, intermediate; middle &c. 68; average; neutral.
- mediocre, middle-class; commonplace &c. (unimportant) 643.
- Adv. on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking
- all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis, in round
- numbers.
- Phr. medium tenuere beati.
-
- #30. Compensation. -- N. compensation, equation; commutation;
- indemnification; compromise &c.. 774 neutralization, nullification;
- counteraction &c. 179; reaction; measure for measure. retaliation &c. 718
- equalization &c.. 27; robbing Peter to pay Paul.
- set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast;
- indemnity, equivalent, quid pro,quo; bribe, hush money; amends &c..
- (atonement) 952; counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand.
- V. make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract,
- countervall, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance,
- counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee
- way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize &c. 27; make good;
- redeem &c. (atone) 952.
- Adj. compensating, compensatory; countervailing &c. v.; in the
- opposite scale; equivalent &c.. (equal) 27.
- Adv. in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still,
- notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless, none the less; although, though;
- albeit, howbeit; mauger; at all events, at any rate; be that as it may, for
- all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus, quand
- meme, however that may be; after all is said and done; taking one thing
- with another &c. (average) 29.
- Phr. " light is mingled with the gloom " [Whittier]; every dark cloud
- has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter [Vergil]; saepe creat
- molles aspera spina rosas [Ovid].
-
- QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A STANDARD
-
- #31. Greatness. -- N. greatness &c. adj.; magnitude; size &c.
- (dimensions) 192; multitude &c. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity
- &c. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance &c. 642.
- great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world;
- mass, heap &c. (assemblage) 72; stock &c. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load,
- cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance &c.
- (sufficiency) 639.
- principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best
- part, essential part ; bulk, mass &c. (whole) 50.
- V. be great &c. adj.; run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a
- great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount.
- enlarge &c.. (increase) 35, (expand) 194.
- Adj. great; greater &c. 33; large, considerable, fair, above par; big,
- huge &c.. (large in size) 192; Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant &c..
- (enough) 639 full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep,
- high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.
- world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many &c. 102.
- goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone,
- arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense,
- consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark
- staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.;
- important &c. 642; unsurpassed &c. (supreme) 33; complete &c. 52. august,
- grand, dignified, sublime, majestic &c. (repute) 873.
- vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant,
- exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous,
- overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible;
- marvelous &c..
- 870.
- unlimited &c.. (infinite) 105; unapproachable, unutterable,
- indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression,
- fabulous.
- undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted.
- absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect,
- finished.
- remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest; noteworthy; renowned.
- Adv. [in a positive degree] truly &c. (truth) 494; decidedly,
- unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally,
- radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main.
- [in a complete degree] entirely &c. (completely) 52; abundantly &c.
- (sufficiently) 639; widely, far and wide.
- [in a great or high degree] greatly &c. adj.; much, muckle, well,
- indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little; pretty,
- pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent, to a
- great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so, ever
- so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by wholesale;
- mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely,
- exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably;
- beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds;
- incalculably, infinitely.
- [in a supreme degree] preeminently, superlatively &c. (superiority)
- 33.
- [in a too great degree] immoderately, monstrously, preposterously,
- inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion,
- with a vengeance.
- [in a marked degree] particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously,
- uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly,
- pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly,
- emphatically, <gr/kat ezochin/>, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly,
- surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully,
- stupendously.
- [in an exceptional degree] peculiarly &c.. (unconformity) 83.
- [in a violent degree] furiously &c. (violence) 173; severely,
- desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly,
- devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance, a toute outrance.
- [in a painful degree] painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly,
- piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably,
- shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.
- Phr. a maximis ad minima; " greatness knows itself" [Henry IV]; "
- mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed " [B. Cornwall]; minimum decet
- libere cui multum licet [Seneca]; " some are born great, some achieve
- greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them " [Twelfth Night].
-
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-
- #32. Smallness. -- N. smallness &c. adj.; littleness &c.. (small size)
- 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness &c (small number) 103; meanness,
- insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.
- small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point;
- material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot,
- mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab,
- dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast;
- grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop,
- droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch,
- patch, scantling,
- tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter,
- shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping;
- shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.
- nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment;
- fraction &c. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.
- animalcule &c. 193.
- trifle &c. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing;
- hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.
- finiteness, finite quantity.
- V. be small &c. adj.; lie in a nutshell.
- diminish &c. (decrease) 36; (contract) 195.
- Adj. small, little; diminutive &c. (small in size) 193; minute; fine;
- inconsiderable, paltry &c. (unimportant) 643; faint &c. (weak) 160;
- slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager &c. (insufficient)
- 640; sparing; few &c. 103; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great
- shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway;
- moderate, modest; tender, subtle.
- inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small;
- atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic.
- mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run.
- dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.
- Adv. [in a small degree] to a small extent, on a small scale; a little
- bit, a wee bit; slightly &c. adj.; imperceptibly; miserably, wretchedly;
- insufficiently &c. 640; imperfectly; faintly &c. 160; passably, pretty
- well, well enough.
- [in a certain or limited degree] partially, in part; in a certain
- degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some,
- rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only,
- purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so
- little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree; thus
- far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak.
- almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon,
- close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch
- of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. [in
- an uncertain degree] about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be
- the same, be little more or less. [in no degree] no ways, no way, no wise;
- not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a
- jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of
- means; on no account, at no hand.
- Phr. dare pondus idonea fumo [Persius]; magno conatu magnas nugas
- [Terence]; " small sands the mountain, moments make the year [Young].
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-
- QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT
-
- #33. Superiority. [Supremacy.] -- N. superiority, majority; greatness
- &c.. 31; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground,
- prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility &c.. (rank) 875;
- Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain;
- crackajack * [U. S.].
- supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; <gr/trikumia/>, climax;
- culmination &c. (summit) 210; transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share,
- Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus &c. (remainder) 40; (redundance) 641.
- V. be superior &c.. adj.; exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance,
- outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-
- top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop,
- cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip &c.. 303; eclipse, throw into the
- shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have
- the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale,
- kick the beam; play first fiddle &c.. (importance) 642,; preponderate,
- predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a
- head, culminate; beat &c. all others,
- bear the palm; break the record; take the cake * [U. S.].
- become larger, render larger &c.. (increase) 35, (expand) 194.
- Adj. superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding &c. v.;great &c. 31;
- distinguished, ultra; vaulting; more than a match for.
- supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning;
- first-rate &c. (important) 642, (excellent) 648; unrivaled peerless,
- matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned,
- unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative,
- inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel,
- nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison;
- culminating &c. (topmost) 210; transcendent, transcendental;plus royaliste
- que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope
- increased &c. (added to) 35; enlarged &c. (expanded) 194.
- Adv. beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par;
- upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its
- height.
- [in a superior or supreme degree] eminently, egregiously,
- preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all,
- of all things, the most, to crown all, <gr/kat ezokin/gr>, par excellence,
- principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea,
- still more.
-
- Phr. " I shall not look upon his like again " [Hamlet]; deos fortioribus
- addesse [Tacitus].
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-
-
- #34. Inferiority. -- N. inferiority, minority, subordinacy;
- shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness &c. 32; imperfection; lower
- quality, lower worth.
- [personal inferiority] commonalty &c. 876.
- V. be inferior &c. adj.; fall short of, come short of; not pass, not
- come up to; want.
- become smaller, render smaller &c. (decrease) 36, (contract) 195; hide
- its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second
- fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat.
- Adj. inferior, smaller; small &c. 32; minor, less, lesser, deficient,
- minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate &c.. (imperfect) 651; sub,
- subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting;
- not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to.
- least, smallest &c. (see little, small &c. 193); lowest.
- diminished &c. (decreased) 36; reduced &c. (contracted) 195;
- unimportant &c. 643.
- Adv. less; under the mark, below the mark,below par; at the bottom of the
- scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage; short of, under.
-
- CHANGES IN QUANTITY
-
-
- #35. Increase. -- N. increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension;
- dilatation &c. (expansion) 194; increment, accretion; accession &c. 37;
- development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent &c. 305;
- exaggeration exacerbation; spread &c. (dispersion) 73; flood tide; gain,
- produce, product, profit.
- V. increase, augment, add to, enlarge;. dilate &c. (expand) 194; grow,
- wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend &c.
- 305; sprout &c. 194.
- aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify,
- enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate;
- add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd &c. (add) 37; spread
- &c. (disperse) 73.
- Adj. increased &c. v.; on the increase, undiminished; additional &c.
- (added) 37.
- Adv. crescendo.
- Phr. vires acquirit eundo [Vergil].
-
-
- #36. Nonincrease, Decrease. -- N. decrease, diminution; lessening &c.
- v.; subtraction &c. 38; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking &c.
- (contraction.) 195; coarctation|; abridgment &c. (shortening) 201;
- extenuation.
- subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent &c. 306; decrement,
- reflux, depreciation; deterioration &c. 659; anticlimax; mitigation &c.
- (moderation) 174.
- V. decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge &c. (shorten) 201; shrink &c.
- (contract) 195; drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane,
- ebb, decline; descend &c. 306; subside; melt away, die away; retire into
- the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish,
- decay, crumble.
- bate, abate, dequantitate|; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower,
- weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate &c. (moderate) 174; dwarf, throw
- into the shade; reduce &c. 195; shorten &c. 201; subtract &c. 38.
- Adj. unincreased &c. (see increase &c.35); decreased &c. v.; decreasing &c.
- v.; on the wane &c. n.
- Phr. " a gilded halo hovering round decay " [Byron); " fine by degrees
- and beautifully less " [Prior].
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- 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY
-
- #37. Addition. -- N. addition, annexation, adjection; junction &c. 43;
- superposition, superaddition, superjunction, superfetation; accession,
- reinforcement; increase &c. 35; increment, supplement; accompaniment &c.
- 88; interposition &c. 228; insertion &c. 300.
- V. add, annex, affix, superadd, subjoin, superpose; clap on, saddle
- on; tack to, append, tag; ingraft; saddle with; sprinkle; introduce &c.
- (interpose) 228; insert &c. 300.
- become added, accrue; advene, supervene.
- reenforce, restrengthen; reinforce, swell the ranks of; augment &c.
- 35.
- Adj. added &c. v.; additional; supplemental, supplementary;
- suppletory, subjunctive; adjectitious, adscititious, ascititious; additive,
- extra, accessory.
- Adv. au reste, in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also, likewise,
- too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else, besides, to boot,
- et cetera; &c.; and so on, and so forth; into the bargain, cum multis
- aliis, over and above, moreover.
- with, withal; including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let
- alone; together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with;
- conjointly; jointly &c. 43.
- Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
-
-
-
- #38. Nonaddition. Subduction. - N. subduction, subtraction; deduction,
- retrenchment; removal; ablation, sublation; abstraction &c. (taking) 789;
- garbling,, &c. v. mutilation, detruncation; amputation; abscision,
- excision, recision; curtailment &c. 201; minuend, subtrahend; decrease &c.
- 36; abrasion.
- V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove,
- withdraw; take from, take away; detract.
- garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out;
- abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld,
- castrate; eliminate.
- diminish &c. 36; curtail &c. (shorten) 201; deprive of &c. (take) 789;
- weaken.
- Adj. subtracted &c. v.; subtractive.
- Adv. in deduction &c. n.; less; short of; minus, without, except,
- excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and
- except, with a reservation.
-
-
-
- #39. [Thing added] Adjunct. -- N. adjunct; addition, additament;
- additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex; augment, augmentation;
- increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item; garnish, sauce;
- accompaniment &c. 88; adjective, addendum; complement, supplement;
- continuation.
- rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet,
- skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix &c. (sequel) 65; wing.
- Adj. additional &c. 37. alate, alated; winged.
- Adv. in addition &c. 37.
-
-
-
- #40. [Thing remaining.] Remainder. -- N.
- remainder, residue; remains, remanet, remnant, rest, relic;
- leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts;
- residuum; dregs &c. (dirt) 653; refuse &c. (useless) 645; stubble, result,
- educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.
- surplus, overplus, excess; balance, complement; superplus, surplusage;
- superfluity &c.(redundance) 641; survival, survivance.
- V. remain,; be left &c. adj.; exceed, survive; leave.
-
-
-
- Adj.remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over,
- odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above;
- outlying, outstanding; cast off &c. 782; superfluous &c. (redundant) 641.
-
-
- #40a. [Thing deducted.] Decrement. -- N. decrement, discount, defect,
- loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction; waste.
-
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-
- #41. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture. -- N. mixture,
- admixture, commixture, commixtion; commixion, intermixture, alloyage,
- matrimony; junction &c. 43; combination &c. 48; miscegenation.
- impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion;
- infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation &c. 228
- adulteration, sophistication.
- [Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice,
- seasoning, infusion, soupcon.
- [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow,
- pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu|,
- medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts;
- jumble &c. (disorder) 59; salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry,
- olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture,
- mingled yarn; mosaic &c. (variegation) 440.
-
- half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron
- &c.;.quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie;
- grimffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra [U. S.]
- zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel.
-
- V. mix; join &c. 43; combine &c. 48; commix, immix, intermix; mix up
- with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle; shuffle &c. (derange) 61;
- pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard
- &c. (interpolate) 228; intertwine, interweave &c. 219; associate with;
- miscegenate.
- be mixed &c.; get among, be entangled with.
- instil, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge,
- tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross;
- alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.
-
- Adj. mixed &c. v.; implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey,
- chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley &c. (variegated) 440;
- miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible.
- Adv. among, amongst, amid, amidst; with; in the midst of, in the crowd.
-
- #42. [Freedom from mixture.] Simpleness. -- N. simpleness &c. adj.;
- purity, homogeneity.
- elimination; sifting &c. v.; purification &c. (cleanness) 652.
- V. render simple &c. adj.; simplify.
- sift, winnow, bolt, eliminate; exclude, get rid of; clear; purify &c.
- (clean) 652; disentangle &c. (disjoin) 44.
- Adj. simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer,
- neat.
- unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, uncompounded; elementary,
- undecomposed; unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed, untinged,
- unfortified, pur et simple; incomplex.
- free from, exempt from; exclusive.
- Adv. simple &c. adj. only.
-
-
-
- #43. Junction. -- N. junction; joining &c. v.; joinder, union
- connection, conjunction, cojugation; annexion, annexation, annexment;
- astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation;
- accouplement; marriage &c. (wedlock,) 903; infibulation, inosculation,
- symphysis, anastomosis, confluenee, communication, concatenation; meeting,
- reunion; assemablage &c. 72.
- coition, copulation;sex, sexual congress,sexual conjunction, sexual
- intercourse, love-making.
- joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure,
- seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link &c. 45; miter mortise.
- closeness, tightness, &c. adj.; coherence &c. 46; combination &c. 48.
- annexationist.
- V. join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay
- together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece
- together, tack together, fix together, bind up together together; embody,
- reembody; roll into one.
- attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist,
- make fast &c. adj.; tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, stitch, tack,
- knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe,
- gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter &c. (restrain) 751;
- lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link,
- yoke, bracket; marry &c. (wed) 903; bridge over, span.
- braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, screw, rivet; impact,
- solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter,
- jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft, inosculate; entwine, intwine;
- interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave; entangle; twine
- round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.
- be joined &c.; hang together, hold together; cohere &c. 46.
- Adj. joined &c. v.; joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact;
- hand in hand.
- firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved |;
- inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable.
- Adv. jointly &c. adj.; in conjunction with &c. (in addition to) 37;
- fast, firmly, &c. adj.; intimately.
- Phr. tria juncta in uno.
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-
-
-
- #44. Disjunction. -- N. disjunction, disconnection, disunity,
- disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity &c. 70; abjunction;
- cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation;
- insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness &c. adj.; severalty;
- disjecta membra; dispersion &c. 73; apportionment &c. 786.
- separation; parting &c. v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation;
- divorce, sejunction|, seposition|, diduction, diremption, discerption;
- elision; caesura, break, fracture,
- division, subdivision, rupture; compartition |; dismemberment,
- dislocation; luxation; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission,
- abscission; laceration, dilaceration; disruption, abruption; avulsion,
- divulsion; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility,
- separability.
-
- fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.
- dissection anatomy; decomposition &c. 49; cutting instrument &c (shar
- pness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.
- separatist.
- V. be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to
- pieces; peel off; get loose.
- disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair;
- divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set
- apart, keep apart; insulate,, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift;
- loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c. (fix) 43, unpack,
- unravel; disentangle; set free &c. (liberate) 750.
- sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut;
- incide|, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split,
- splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c. rend asunder,
- rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch,
- chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind|,
- lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.
- cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to
- pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal,
- tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin &c. 226; disintegrate, dismember,
- disbranch, disband; disperse &c. 73; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince;
- comminute &c. (pulverize) 330; apportion &c. 786.
- part, part company; separate, leave.
- Adj. disjoined &c. v.; discontinuous &c. 70; multipartite, abstract;
- disjunctive; secant; isolated &c. v.; insular, separate, disparate,
- discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached, unannexed,
- unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift, reft.
- [capable of being cut] scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible,
- separable.
- Adv. separately &c. adj.; one by one, severally, apart; adrift,
- asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.
-
-
- #45. [Connecting medium.] Vinculum. -- N. vinculum, link; connective,
- connection; junction &c. 43; bond of union, copula, intermedium, hyphen;
- bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus.
- bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; ribband, ribbon, rope,
- guy, cable, line, halser|, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string
- &c. (filament) 205.
- fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging.; standing
- rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band bandage; brace,
- roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam;
- girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot,
- running knot; cabestro [U. S.], cinch [U. S.], lariat, legadero, oxreim;
- suspenders.
-
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- pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, clamp; cramp,
- cramp iron, detent, larigo, pawl, terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle,
- clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook,
- hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron,
- trennel, stake, post.
- cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime,
- mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum.
- shackle, rein &c. (means of restraint) 752; prop &c. (support) 215.
- V. bridge over, span; connect &c. 43; hang &c. 214.
-
-
-
- #46. Coherence. -- N. coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness;
- concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration;
- aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering &c. v.;
- connection; dependence.
- tenacity, toughness; stickiness &c. 352; inseparability,
- inseparableness; bur, remora.
- conglomerate, concrete &c. (density) 321.
- V. cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold
- fast, close with, clasp, hug; grow together, hang together; twine round &c.
- (join) 43.
- stick like a leech, stick like wax; stick close;
- cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like
- Dejanira's shirt.
- glue; agglutinate, conglutinate; cement, lute, paste, gum; solder,
- weld; cake, consolidate &c. (solidify) 321; agglomerate.
- Adj. cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering &c. v.; tenacious, tough;
- sticky &c. 352.
- united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable,
- infrangible; compact &c. (dense) 321.
-
-
- #47. [Want of adhesion, nonadhesion, immiscibility.] Incoherence. - N.
- nonadhesion; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness &c. adj.; laxity;
- relaxation; loosening &c. v.; freedom; disjunction &c. 44; rope of sand.
- V. make loose &c. adj.; loosen, slacken, relax; unglue &c. 46; detach
- &c. (disjoin) 44.
- Adj. nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy,
- slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like
- grains of sand unconsolidated &c. 231, uncombined &c. 48; noncohesive.
-
-
-
- #48. Combination. -- N. combination; mixture &c. 41; junction &c. 43;
- union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment,
- coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization.
- alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertiun quid; resultant,
- impregnation.
- V. combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody,
- blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize,
- impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.
- Adj. combined &c. v.; impregnated with, ingrained; imbued inoculated.
-
- #49. Decomposition. -- N. decomposition, analysis, dissection,
- resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption &c. (uncleanness) 653;
- dispersion &c. 73; disunction &c. 44; disintegration.
- V. decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into
- its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze; dissect,
- decentralize, break up; disperse &c. 73; unravel &c. (unroll) 313; crumble
- into dust.
- Adj. decomposed &c. v.; catalytic, analytical; resolvent, separative,
- solvent.
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- 4. CONCRETE QUANTITY
-
- #50. Whole. [Principal part.] -- N. whole, totality, integrity;
- totalness &c. adj.; entirety, ensemble, collectiveness; unity &c. 87;
- completeness &c. 52; indivisibility, indiscerptibility; integration,
- embodiment; integer.
- all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum
- total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of,
- Alpha and Omega, " be all and end all "; complex, complexus ; lock stock
- and barrel.
- bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole,
- hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part,
- main part; essential part &c. (importance). 642; lion's share, Benjamin's
- mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.
- V. form a whole, constitute a whole; integrate, embody, amass;
- aggregate &c. (assemble) 72; amount to, come to.
- Adj. whole, total, integral, entire; complete &c. 52; one, individual.
- unbroken, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped uncropped, unshorn;
- seamless; undiminished; undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised.
- indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible.
- wholesale, sweeping; comprehensive.
- Adv. wholly, altogeher; totally &c. (completely) 52; entirely, all,
- all in all, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together; in the
- aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long
- run; en masse, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every
- inch; substantially.
- Phr. tout bien ou rien.
-
-
-
- #51. Part. -- N. part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any;
- division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph,
- verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle,
- frustum; detachment, parcel.
- piece, lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale;
- lamina &c. 204; small part; morsel, particle &c. (smallness) 32;
- installment, dividend; share &c. (allotment) 786.
- debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta; member, limb,
- lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot,
- ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump;
- component part &c. 56; sarmentum.
- compartment; department &c. (class) 75; county &c. (region) 181.
- V. part, divide, break &c. (disjoin) 44; partition &c. (apportion)
- 786.
- Adj. fractional, fragmentary; sectional, aliquot; divided &c. v.; in
- compartments, multifid; disconnected; partial.
- Adv. partly, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by by
- installments,by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch,
- foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots.
-
-
-
-
- #52. Completeness. -- N. completeness &c. adj.; completion &c. 729;
- integration; allness.
- entirety; perfection &c. 650; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne
- plus ultra, ideal, limit.
- complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up &c. v.
- impletion; saturation, saturity|; high water; high tide, flood tide,
- spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency &c. 639.
- V. be complete &c. adj.; come to a head.
- render complete &c. adj.; complete &c. (accomplish) 729; fill, charge,
- load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply
- deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of;
- saturate.
- go the whole hog, go the whole length; go all lengths.
- Adj. complete, entire; whole &c. 50; perfect &c. 650; full, good,
- absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with all its parts; all-
- sided.
- exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead.
- regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional,
- free; abundant &c. (sufficient) 639.
- brimming; brimful, topful; chock full, choke full; as full as an egg
- is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete &c. (redundant)
- 641; fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged; heavy laden.
- completing &c. v.; supplemental, supplementary; ascititious.
- Adv. completely &c. adj.; altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in
- toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all,
- nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel,
- neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and
- out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a
- whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart
- and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.
- to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance.
- throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to
- end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot,
- from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble; a fond, a capite ad
- calcem , ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft; every, whit, every inch; cap-
- a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the
- eyes; as . . . as can be.
- on all accounts; sous tous les rapports; with a vengeance, with a
- witness.
- Phr. falsus in uno falsus in omnib us; omnem movere lapidem; una scopa
- nuova spazza bene
-
-
- #53. Incompleteness. -- N. incompleteness &c. adj.; deficiency, short
- measure; shortcoming &c. 304; insufficiency &c. 640; imperfection &c. 651;
- immaturity &c. (nonpreparation) 674; half measures.
- [part wanting] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret;
- shortage; interval &c. 198; break &c. (discontinuity) 70; noncompletion &c.
- 730 missing link.
- V. be incomplete &c. adj.; fall short of &c. 304; lack &c. (be
- insufficient) 640; neglect &c. 460.
- Adj. incomplete; imperfect &c. 651; unfinished; uncompleted &c. (see
- complete &c. 729); defective, deficient, wanting, failing; in default, in
- arrear; short, of; hollow, meager, lame, half-and-half, perfunctory,
- sketchy; crude &c. (unprepared) 674.
- mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated.
- in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding.
- Adv. incompletely &c. adj.; by halves.
- Phr. caetera desunt; caret.
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- #54. Composition. -- N. composition, constitution, crasis; combination
- &c. 48; inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception; embodiment;
- formation.
- V. be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of; consist
- of, be resolved into.
- include &c. (in a class) 76; contain, hold, comprehend, take in,
- admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.
- compose, constitute, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the
- composition of &c. (be a component) 56.
- Adj. containing, constituting &c.v.
-
- #55. Exclusion. -- N. exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception,
- rejection, repudiation; exile &c. (seclusion) 893; noninclusion,
- preclusion, prohibition.
- separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion;
- cofferdam.
- V. be excluded from &c.
- exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate,
- blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate,
- segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect &c. 460; banish
- &c. (seclude) 893; separate.&c. (disjoin) 44.
- pass over, omit; garble; eliminate, weed, winnow.
- Adj. excluding &c. v.; exclusive. excluded &c. v.; unrecounted, not
- included in; inadmissible.
- Adv. exclusive of, barring; except; with the exception of; save;
- bating.
-
- #56. Component. -- N. component; component part, integral part,
- integrant part; element, constituent, ingredient, leaven; part and parcel;
- contents; appurtenance; feature; member &c. (part) 51; personnel.
- V. enter into, enter into the composition of; be a component &c. n; be
- part of, form part of &c. 51 ; merge in, be merged in; be implicated in;
- share in &c. (participate) 778; belong to, appertain to; combine, inhere
- in, unite.
- form, make, constitute, compose.
- Adj. forming &c. v. inclusive.
-
- #57. Extraneousness. -- N. extraneousness &c. adj.; extrinsicality &c.
- 6; exteriority &c. 220; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign
- substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper,
- foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emmigrant; creole, Africander;
- outsider; Dago*, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner [U.S.],
- Dutchman, tenderfoot.
- Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.
- excluded &c. 55; inadmissible; exceptional.
- Adv. in foreign parts, in foreign lands; abroad, beyond seas; over sea
- on one's travels.
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- SECTION IV. ORDER
-
- 1. ORDER
-
- #58. Order. -- N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus
- ordo; music of the spheres.
- gradation, progression; series &c. (continuity) 69.
- subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition,
- arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness &c. adj.
- rank, place &c. (term) 71.
- V. be in order, become in order &c. adj.; form, fall in, draw up;
- arrrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's palce, take
- one's place, take one's rank; rally round.
- adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
- Adj. orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in appleinpie order, in its
- proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical,
- uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused &c.
- (see confuse &c. 61); arranged &c. 60.
- Adv. in order; methodically &c. adj.; in -turn, - its turn; step by
- step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals; seriatim,
- systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods &c.
- (periodically) 138.
- Phr. natura non facit saltum; "order is heaven's first law" [Pope];
- "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque
- rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio [St. Augustine].
-
- #59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c.] Disorder. -- N. disorder;
- derangement &c. 61; irregularity; anomaly &c. (unconformity) 83; anarchy,
- anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c. adj.; disunion; discord &c. 24.
- confusion; confusedness &c. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle,
- litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash,
- hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum,
- medley; mere mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta
- membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid].
- turmoil; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder, pother,
- row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution,
- riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row,
- ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble;
- whirlwind &c. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook
- Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors;
- Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the
- fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece
- of work, pretty piece of business.
- V. be disorderly &c. adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
- put out of order; derange &c. 61; ravel &c. 219; ruffle, rumple.
- Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
- irregular, desultory; anomalous &c. (unconformable) 83; acephalous,
- deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical;
- unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts;
- promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged &c. (see
- arrange &c. 60); confused; deranged &c. 61; topsy-turvy &c. (inverted) 218;
- shapeless &c. 241; disjointed, out of joint.
- troublous; riotous &c. (violent) 173.
- Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
- starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a
- ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c. 218.
- Phr. the cart before the horse; <gr/hysteron proteron/gr>; chaos is
- come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds " [Addison].
-
- #59a. Complexity -- N. complexity; complexness &c. adj.; complexus;
- complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network,
- labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c.
- (convolution) 248; sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within
- wheels; kink, knarl; webwork.
- Adj. knarled. complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed,
- involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.
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-
- #60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement. -- N. arrangement; plan &c.
- 626; preparation &c. 673; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation;
- distribution; sorting &c. v.; assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis,
- taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation.
- analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion.
- [Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis &c. (compendium) 596;
- syntagma, table, atlas; file, database; register. &c. (record) 551;
- organism, architecture.
- [Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter.
- V. reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally.
- arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order;
- set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out,
- allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of,
- assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights,
- put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.
- class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register &c.
- (record) 551; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.
- methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix.
- unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze.
- Adj. arranged &c. v.; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried;
- methodical, orderly, regular, systematic.
- Phr. "In vast cumbrous array" [Churchill]
-
-
- #61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement. -- N.
- derangement &c. v.; disorder &c. 59; evection, discomposure, disturbance;
- disorganization, deorganization; dislocation; perturbation, interruption;
- shufflng &c. v.; inversion &c. 218; corrugation &c. (fold) 258;
- involvement.
- V. derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay,
- discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil,
- unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle,
- randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into
- disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c. 59; muss [U.S.];
- break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.
- unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.
- turn topsy-turvy &c. (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve,
- perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle,
- towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c. (fold) 258.
- litter, scatter; mix &c. 41.
- Adj. deranged &c. v.; syncretic, syncretistic; mussy, messy; flaky;
- random, unordered [U.S.].
-
- 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER
-
- #62. Precedence. -- N. precedence; coming before &c. v.; the lead, le
- pas; superiority &c. 33; importance &c. 642; antecedence, antecedency;
- anteriority &c. (front) 234; precursor &c. 64; priority &c. 116; precession
- &c. 280; anteposition; epacme; preference.
- V. precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead
- the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the
- pas; set the fashion &c. (influence) 175; open the ball; take precedence,
- have precedence; have the start &c. (get before) 280.
- place before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface.
- Adj. preceding &c. v.; precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior &c. 116;
- before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned;
- aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary,
- prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory.
- Adv. before; in advance &c. (precession) 280.
- Phr. seniores priores; prior tempore prior jure.
-
- #63. Sequence. -- N. sequence, coming after; going after &c.
- (following) 281; consecution, succession; posteriority &c. 117.
- continuation; order of succession; successiveness; paracme.
- secondariness; subordinancy &c. (inferiority) 34.
- afterbirth, afterburden; placenta, secundines.
- V. succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into
- the shoes of; alternate.
- place after, suffix, append.
- Adj. succeeding &c.v.; sequent; subsequent, consequent, sequacious,
- proximate, next; consecutive &c. (continuity) 69; alternate, amoebean.
- latter; posterior &c. 117.
- Adv. after, subsequently; behind &c. (rear) 235.
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- #64. Precursor. -- N. precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor;
- forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome|, prodromos,
- prodromus, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding;
- dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper,
- stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker.
- prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos,
- protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix,
- introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation &c. 673;
- overture, exordium, symphony; premises.
- prefigurement &c. 511; omen &c. 512.
- Adj. precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious; proemial,
- introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary; precedent &c.
- (prior) 116.
- Phr. "a precedent embalms a principle" [Disraeli].
-
- #65. Sequel. -- N. sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train,
- wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue;
- peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece,
- heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon.
- aftercome, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterpiece, aftercourse,
- afterthought, aftergame; arrier pensee, second thoughts; outgrowth.
-
- #66. Beginning.-- N. beginning, commencement, opening, outset,
- incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction &c. (precursor) 64; alpha,
- initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the
- curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first
- move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new
- departure.
- origin &c. (cause) 153; source, rise; bud, germ &c. 153; egg,
- rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start,
- inception, creation, starting point &c. 293; dawn &c. (morning) 125;
- evolution.
- title-page; head, heading; van &c. (front)
- 234; caption, fatihah.
- entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal,
- portico, propylon, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold,
- vestibule; propylaeum; skirts, border &c. (edge) 231.
- first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight.
- rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC.
- V. begin, commence, inchoate rise, arise, originate, conceive,
- initiate, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out &c.
- (depart) 293; embark in; incept.
- usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative;
- inaugurate, head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the
- foundations &c. (prepare) 673; found &c. (cause) 153; set up, set on foot,
- agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train;
- launch, broach; open up, open the door to; set about, set to work; make a
- beginning, make a start; handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone,
- cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the
- Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air;
- undertake &c. 676.
- come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take
- birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, crop up, pop up, appear,
- materialize.
- begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo, begin again, begin de novo;
- start afresh, make a fresh start, shuffle the cards, resume, recommence.
- Adj. beginning &c. v.; initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive,
- introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative;
- embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial &c.
- (old) 124; aboriginal; natal, nascent.
- first, foremost, leading; maiden.
- begun &c. v.; just begun &c. v.
- Adv. at the beginning, in the beginning, &c. n.; first, in the first
- place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in
- its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab
- incunabilis, ab origine.
- Phr. aller Anfang ist schwer; dimidium facti qui coepit habet
- [Cicero]; omnium rerum principia parva sunt [Cicero].
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-
- #67. End. -- N. end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis,
- finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity;
- gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail &c. (rear) 235; verge
- &c. (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end,
- rear guard.
- consummation, denouement; finish &c. (completion) 729; fate; doom,
- doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain;
- goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction,
- extermination; death &c. 360; end of all things; finality; eschatology.
- break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de
- grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager* [U.S.].
- V. end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die
- &c. 360; come-, draw- to a -close &c. n.; have run its course; run out,
- pass away. bring to an -end &c. n.; put an end to, make an end of;
- determine; get through; achieve &c. (complete) 729; stop &c. (make to
- cease) 142; shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.
- Adj. ending &c. v.; final, terminal, definitive; crowning &c.
- (completing) 729; last, ultimate; hindermost; rear &c. 235; caudal;
- vergent.
- conterminate, conterminous, conterminable.
- ended &c. v.; at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at
- rest; conclusive. penultimate; last but one, last but two, &c. unbegun,
- uncommenced; fresh.
- Adv. finally &c. adj.; in fine; at the last; once for all.
- Phr. "as high as Heaven and as deep as hell" [Beaumont & Fletcher];
- deficit omne quod nascitur [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut considerer
- la fin; finem respice; ultimus Romanorum.
-
- #68. Middle. -- N. middle, midst, mediety|, mean &c. 29; medium,
- middle term; center &c. 222, mid-course &c. 628; mezzo termine; juste
- milieu &c. 628; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos; nucleus, nucleolus.
- equidistance, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff;
- intermediate &c. 228.
- Adj. middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average; middlemost,
- midmost; mediate; intermediate &c. (interjacent) 228; equidistant; central
- &c. 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.
- Adv. in the middle; midway, halfway; midships, amidships, in medias
- res.
-
- #69. [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity. -- N. continuity;
- consecution, consecutiveness &c. adj.; succession, round, suite,
- progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale;
- gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
- procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line
- of battle, array.
- pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house;
- line, line of ancestors; strain.
- rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit;
- colonnade.
- V. follow in a series, form a series &c. n.; fall in.
- arrange in a series, collate &c. n.; string together, file, thread,
- graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
- Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial,
- successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c.
- n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting; perennial, evergreen;
- constant.
- Adv. continuously &c. adj.; seriatim; in a line &c. n.; in succession,
- in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch; in file,
- in column, in single file, in Indian file.
-
- #70. [Interrupted sequence.) Discontinuity.-- N. discontinuity;
- disjunction &c. 44; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw,
- fault, crack, cut; gap &c. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura;
- broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission;
- alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.
- V. be discontinuous &c. adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and
- start, hesitate.
- discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break
- off; interpose &c. 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c.
- (disjoin) 44; dissever.
- Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu;
- disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disunctive; fitful &c. (irregular)
- 139; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional &c. v., intermittent;
- alternate; recurrent &c. (periodic) 138.
- Adv. at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by
- fits and starts; skippingly, per saltum; longo intervallo.
- Phr. like "angel visits few and far between" [Campbell].
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-
- #71. Term. -- N. term, rank, station, stage, step; degree &c. 26;
- scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position,
- place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.
- V. hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place &c.
- n.
-
- 3. COLLECTIVE ORDER
-
- #72. Assemblage. -- N. {opp. 73} assemblage; collection, collocation,
- colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster,
- attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration|,
- convergence &c. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home;
- conversazione &c. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention,
- conventicle; gemote; conclave &c. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus;
- Noah's ark.
- miscellany, collectanea; museum, menagerie &c. (store) 636; museology.
- crowd, throng, group,; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press,
- crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party;
- swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive,
- force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps,
- company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c. (combatants) 726;
- host &c. (multitude) 102; populousness.
- clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c. (party) 712.
- volley, shower, storm, cloud.
- group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack;
- budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine,
- fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel,
- stack, sheaf, haycock; fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock,
- stook.
- accumulation &c. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau,
- tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation,
- cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration,
- conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation,
- concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of
- Calcutta; quantity &c. (greatness) 31.
- collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.
- V. [be or come together] assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join,
- rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng,
- associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center
- round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together;
- forgather; huddle; reassemble.
- [get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get
- together, put together, drawtogether, scrape together, lump together;
- collect, collocate, colligate; get , whip in; gather; hold a meeting;
- convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put
- up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup,
- concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass,
- accumulate &c. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.
- Adj. assembled &c. v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to
- suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap,
- fasciculated cumulative.
- Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim; tibi seris tibi metis.
-
- #73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion. -- N. {opp. 72} dispersion;
- disjunction &c. 44; divergence &c. 291; aspersion; scattering &c. v.;
- dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c. 786;
- spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion.
- waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra, [Hor.]; waveson.
- V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed,
- spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember,
- distribute; apportion &c. 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth,
- draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal
- out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.
- turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds;.
- spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.
- Adj. unassembled &c. (see assemble &c. 72); dispersed &c. v.; sparse,
- dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c. (general) 78;
- adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.
- Adv. sparsim, here and there, passim.
-
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-
- #74. [Place of meeting.] Focus. -- N. focus; point of convergence &c.
- 290; corradiation; center &c. 222; gathering place, resort haunt retreat;
- venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot &c.
- (store) 636; trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of
- assignation; point de reunion; issue.
- V. bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.
-
- 4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER
-
- #75. Class. - N. class, division, category, categorema, head, order,
- section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.
- kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race,
- tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset;
- assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.
- manner, description, denomination, designation, character, stamp
- predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.
- similarity &c. 17.
-
- #76. Inclusion. [Comprehension under, or reference to a class.] -- N.
- inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception.
- composition &c. (inclusion in a compound) 54.
- V. be -included in &c.; come -, fall -, range- under; belong -,
- pertain- to; range with; merge in.
- include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive;
- inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; embody, encircle.
- reckon -, enumerate -, number- among; refer to; place -, arrange- -
- under, - with; take into account.
- Adj. included, -ing &c. v.; inclusive; congen-er, -erous; of the same
- -class &c. 75; encircling.
- Phr. a maximis ad minima, et hoc genus omne, &c., etc.; et coetera.
-
- #77. Exclusion. -- N. [The same set of words is used to express
- exclusion from a class and exclusion from a compound. Reference is
- therefore made to the former at 55. This identity does not occur with
- regard to inclusion, which therefore constitutes a separate category.]
- exclusion &c. 55.
-
- #78. Generality. -- N. generality, generalization; universality;
- catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness; dragnet; common
- run; worldwideness.
- everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N
- or M, all sorts.
- prevalence, run.
- V. be general &c. adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.
- render general &c. adj.; generalize.
- Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping;
- encyclopedical, widespread &c. (dispersed) 73.
- universal; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide; , ecumenical,
- oecumenical; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic,
- besetting; all over, covered with.
- Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic;
- panharmonic.
- every, all; unspecified, impersonal.
- customary &c. (habitual) 613.
- Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.
- generally &c. adj.; always, for better for worse; in general,
- generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run
- &c. (on an average) 29.
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-
- #79. Speciality. -- N. {opp. 78} speciality, specialite;
- individuality, individuity|; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c.
- (tendency) 176; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy;
- specificness &c. adj.; singularity &c. (unconformity) 83; reading, version,
- lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.
- particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae.
- I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself.
- V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize,
- designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.
- descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the
- point.
- Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal,
- original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain,
- esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several,
- characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular &c. (exceptional) 83;
- idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.
- this, that; yon, yonder.
- Adv. specially, especially, particularly &c. adj.; in particular,
- in propria persona; ad hominem; for my part.
- each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each
- to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in
- mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice, pro re nata.
- namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e.g.,
- i.e.,videlicet, viz.; to wit.
- Phr. le style est l'homme meme.
-
- 5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES
-
- #80. Normality. -- N. normality, normalcy, normalness; familiarity,
- naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard (conformity) 82;
- customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22.
- V. normalize, standardize.
- Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency) 136;
-
- #81. Multiformity. -- N. multiformity, omniformity; variety,
- diversity; multifariousness &c. adj.; varied assortment.
- Adj. multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex;
- variform, manifold, many-sided; omniform, omnigenous, omnifarious;
- heterogeneous, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory,
- irregular, diversified, different divers; all manner of; of every
- description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de
- omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis.
- Phr. "harmoniously confused" [Pope]; variety's the very spice of life"
- [Cowper].
-
- #82. Conformity. -- N. {opp. 83} conformity, conformance; observance;
- habituation. naturalization; conventionality &c. (custom) 613; agreement
- &c. 23.
- example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification,
- illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation.
- standard, model, pattern &c. (prototype) 22.
- rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural
- state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition,
- ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order;
- Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.
-
- V. conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself
- to; rub off corners.
- be regular &c. adj.; move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by
- the rules, bend to the rules ,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply
- with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated
- by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the
- crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les
- loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the
- stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim
- with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track &c. (habit)
- 613; keep one in countenance.
- exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority,
- appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance &c. n.; elucidate,
- explain.
- Adj. conformable to rule; regular &c. 136; according to regulation,
- according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to
- Gunter; en regle, selon Ies, reges, well regulated, orderly; symmetric &c.
- 242.
- conventional &c. (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday
- occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual,
- usual, everyday, workaday.
- in the order of the day; naturalized.
- typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict,
- rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.
- secundum artem, shipshape, technical. exempIe. illustrative, in point.
- Adv. conformably &c. adj.; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with,
- in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as
- usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more-majorum. for the sake of
- conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake,
- by the card.
- invariably, &c. (uniformly) 16.
- for example, for instance; exempli gratia; e. g.
- inter alia.
- Phr. cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e
- quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Erasmus]; "they are happy men whose natures
- sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. "The nail that sticks up will get
- hammered down" [Japanese saying]; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut
- off."
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-
-
- #83. Unconformity.-- N. nonconformity &c. 82; unconformity,
- disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality,
- anomaly; anomalousness &c. adj.; exception, peculiarity; infraction of
- law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of
- usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of
- usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi,
- monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, wierdo, mutant;
- rouser, snorter* [U.S.].
- individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.
- aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c.
- (qualification) 469.
- nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonsuch, monster,
- prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan,
- lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste,
- half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto;
- tertium quid, hermaphrodite.
- phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur;
- saggittary; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid;
- unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"
- [Othello]; teratology.
- fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor
- fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million,
- one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track;
- oasis.
- V. be uncomformable &c. adj.; abnormalize; leave the beaten track,
- leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage,
- infringe a custom, break alaw, break a habit, break a usage, break a
- custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom;
- drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there;
- baffle all description, beggar all description.
- Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous,
- anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out
- of one's element;. irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal,
- aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural,
- eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of
- the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of;
- misplaced; funny.
- unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare,
- singular, unique, curious, odd, extraordinary; strange, monstrous;
- wonderful &c. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way,
- remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis;
- original, unconventional, unfashionable; undescribed, unprecedented,
- unparalleled, unexampled, unheard of, unfamiliar; fantastic, newfangled,
- grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural;
- denaturalized.
- heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene,
- half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; unsymmetric &c. 243;
- adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous.
- qualified &c. 469.
- Adv. unconformably &c. adj.; except, unless, save barring, beside,
- without, save and except, let alone.
- however, yet, but.
- Int. what on earth! what in the world! What the devil! Holy cow!
- Sacre bleu!
- Phr. never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was
- known the like.
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-
- SECTION V. NUMBER
-
- 1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT
-
- #84. Number. -- N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit,
- integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series.
- sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand,
- multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor,
- factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number,
- complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal,
- repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient.
- permutation, combination, variation; election.
- ratio, proportion, progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical
- progression, harmonical progression; percentage.
- figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers.
- power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus.
- differential, integral, fluxion, fluent.
- Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime,
- relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable.
- proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential,
- fluxional, integral, totitive.
- positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real;
- complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.
-
- #85. Numeration. -- N. numeration; numbering &c. v.; pagination;
- tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation,
- supputation; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism, rhabdology,
- dactylonomy; measurement &c. 466; statistics.
- arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry,
- fluxions; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus;
- calculus of differences.
- [Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll
- call, recapitulation; account &c. (list) 86.
- [Operations] notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication,
- division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots,
- reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation,
- differentiation, integration.
- [Instruments] abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick[coll.],
- tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan;
- adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator,
- computer;
- [people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist,
- mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant, auditor.
- V. number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account
- of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up;
- tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract,
- multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.
- check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock; affix
- numbers to, page.
- amount to, add up to, come to.
- Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic,
- statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable,
- commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable,
- infinite.
-
- #86. List. -- N. list, catalog, catalogue, inventory, schedule;
- register &c. (record) 551; account; bill, bill of costs; syllabus; terrier,
- tally, file; calendar, index, table, atlas, contents; book, ledger;
- synopsis, catalogue raisonne; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus,
- program, programme; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census, statistics,
- returns; Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre; directory, gazetter.
- almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list; Almanach de
- Gotha, cadaster, card index, card file, rolodex, dictionary, thesaurus,
- Lloyd's register, nautical almanac, who's who, Guiness's Book of World
- Records.
- roll; check roll, checker roll, bead roll; muster roll, muster book;
- roster, panel; cartulary, diptych.
- Adj. cadastral.
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-
-
- 2. DETERMINATE NUMBER
-
-
- #87. {opp. 100} Unity. -- N. unity; oneness &c. adj.; individuality;
- solitude &c. (seclusion) 893; isolation &c. (disjunction) 44; unification
- &c. 48.
- one, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other.
- V. be one, be alone &c. adj.; dine with Duke Humphrey.
- isolate &c. (disjoin) 44.
- render one; unite &c. (join) 43, (combine) 48.
- Adj. one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone;
- kithless.
- unaccompanied, unattended; solus, single-handed; singular, odd,
- unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last; isolated &c. (disjoined) 44;
- insular.
- monospermous; unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral,
- unijocular, unimodular.
- lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary. insecable|, inseverable,
- indiscerptible; compact, irresolvable.
- Adv. singly &c. adj.; alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the
- singular number, in the abstract; one by one, one at a time; simply; one
- and a half, sesqui-
- Phr. natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa; du fort au faible; "two
- souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."
-
- #88. Accompaniment. -- N. accompaniment; adjunct &c. 39; context;
- appendage, appurtenance.
- coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship;
- partnership, copartnership; coefficiency.
- concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant,
- fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-
- partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege;
- attribute.
- V. accompany, coexist, attend; hang on, wait on; go hand in hand with;
- synchronize &c. 120; bear company, keep company; row in the same boat;
- bring in its train; associate with, couple with.
- Adj. accompanying &c. v.; concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated
- with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato.
- Adv. with, withal; together with, along with, in company with; hand in
- hand, side by side; cheek by jowl, cheek by jole; arm in arm; therewith,
- herewith; and &c. (addition) 37.
- together, in a body, collectively.
- Phr. noscitur a sociis; virtutis fortuna comes.
-
- #89. Duality. -- N. duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity;
- polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and
- Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy,
- doublets, dyad, span.
- V. [unite in pairs] pair, couple, bracket, yoke; conduplicate; mate,
- span [U.S.].
- Adj. two, twin; dual, dualistic, double; binary, binomial; twin,
- biparous; dyadic; conduplicate; duplex &c. 90; biduous, binate, diphyletic,
- dispermic, unijugate; tete-a-tete.
- coupled &c. v.; conjugate.
- both, both the one and the other.
-
- #90. Duplication. -- N. duplication; doubling &c. v.; gemination,
- ingemination; reduplication; iteration &c. (repetition) 104; renewal.
- V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c. 104;
- renew &c. 660.
- Adj. double; doubled &c. v.; bicipital, bicephalous, bidental,
- bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral; bifarious,
- bifacial; twofold, two-sided; disomatous; duplex; double-faced, double-
- headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate; second.
- Adv. twice, once more; over again &c. (repeatedly) 104; as much again,
- twofold. secondly, in the second place, again.
-
- #91. [Division into two parts.] bisection. -- N. bisection,
- bipartition; dichotomy, subdichotomy; halving &c. v.; dimidiation.
- bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork,
- prong; fold. half, moiety.
- V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate,
- dichotomize.
- go halves, divide with.
- separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify.
- Adj. bisected &c. v.; cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid,
- bifid; bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated; distichous, dichotomous, furcular;
- semi-, demi-, hemi.
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- #92. Triality. -- N. Triality, trinity; triunity.
- three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce,
- spike-team [U.S.], trefoil; triangle, trident, triennium, trigon,
- trinormial, trionym, triplopia, tripod, trireme, triseme, triskele,
- triskelion, trisula.
- third power, cube.
- Adj. three ; triform, trinal, trinomial; tertiary; ternary; triune;
- triarch, triadie; triple &c. 93..
- Phr. tria juncta in uno.
-
- #93. Triplication. -- N. triplication, triplicity; trebleness, trine.
- V. treble, triple; triplicate, cube.
- Adj. treble, triple; tern, ternary; triplicate, threefold,
- trilogistic; third; trinal, trine.
- Adv. three times, three fold; thrice, in the third place, thirdly;
- trebly &c. adj.
-
- #94. [Division into three parts.] Trisection. -- N. trisection,
- tripartition, trichotomy; third, third part.
- V. trisect, divide into three parts.
- Adj. trifid; trisected &c. v.; tripartite, trichotomous, trisulcate.
- Triadelphous, triangular, tricuspid, tricapsular, tridental,
- tridentate, tridentiferous, trifoliate, trifurcate, trigonal, trigrammic,
- trigrammatic, tripetalous, tripodal, tripodic, triquetral, triquetrous.
-
- #95. Quaternity. -- N. Quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion,
- square, quarter; tetract, tetragon.
- quadrangle, quadrature, quadfifoil, quadfiform, quadruplet;
- quatrefoil.
- V. reduce to a square, square.
- Adj. four; quaternary, quaternal; quadratic; quartile; tetract,
- tetractic, tetractinal; tetrad, tetragonal.
-
- #96. Quadruplication. -- N. quadruplication.
- V. multiply by four, quadruplicate, biquadrate.
- Adj. fourfold; quadrable, quadrumanous, quadruple, quadruplicate,
- quadrible; fourth.
- quadrifoliate, quadrifoliolate, quadrigeminal, quadrigeminate,
- quadriplanar, quadriserial.
- Adv. four times; in the fourth place, fourthly.
-
- #97. [Division into four parts.] Quadrisection. -- N. quadrisection,
- quadripartition; quartering &c. v; fourth; quart, quarter, quartern;
- farthing (i.e. fourthing).
- V. quarter, divide into four parts.
- Adj. quartered &c. v.; quadrifid, quadripartite.
-
- #98. Five, &c. -- N. five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen,
- half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade;
- eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet;
- twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five
- and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred;
- sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score;
- ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad.
- hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century; hundredweight, cwt.; one
- hundred and fourty-four, gross.
- thousand, chiliad; millenium, thousand years; myriad; ten thousand,
- ban[Japanese], man[Japanese]; ten thousand years, banzai[Japanese]; lac,
- one hunddred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard, billion,
- trillion &c.
- V. centuriate; quintuplicate.
- Adj. five, quinary, quintuple; fifth; senary, sextuple; sixth;
- seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal,
- denary, decuple, tenth; eleventh; duodenary, duodenal; twelfth; in one's
- 'teens, thirteenth.
- vicesimal, vigesimal; twentieth; twenty-fourth &c. n.; vicenary,
- vicennial.
- centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial; secular,
- hundredth; thousandth, &c.
-
- #99. Quinquesection, &c. -- N. division by five &c. 98; quinquesection
- &c.; decimation; fifth &c.
- V. decimate; quinquesect.
- Adj. quinquefid, quinqueliteral, quinquepartite; quinquarticular;
- octifid; decimal, tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal,
- sexagenary; hundreth, centesimal; millesimal &c.
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-
-
- #100. {opp. 87} [More than one.] Plurality. -- N. plurality; a number,
- a certain number; one or two, two or three &c.; a few, several; multitude
- &c. 102; majority.
- Adj. plural, more than one, upwards of, some, certain; not alone &c.
- 87.
- Adv. et cetera, &c., etc.
- Phr. non deficit alter.
-
-
- 3. Indeterminate Number
-
-
- #100a. [Less than one.] Fraction -- N. fraction, fractional part; part
- &c. 51.
- Adj. fractional, fragmentary, inconsiderable, negligable,
- infinitesimal.
-
- #101. Zero. -- N. zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void;
- cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts[Ger.], nixie*, nix*; zilch,
- zip, zippo [all slang]; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence &c. 187;
- unsubstantiality &c. 4.
- Adj. not one, not a one, not any, nary a one [dial.];not a, never a;
- not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot;
- not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a
- shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.
-
- #102. Multitude. -- N. multitude; numerous &c. adj.; numerosity,
- numerality; multiplicity; profusion &c. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great
- number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers,
- array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm,
- draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood,
- litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd &c. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the
- world and his wife.
- [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication,
- multiple.
- V. be numerous &c. adj.; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd,
- swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts,
- swarm like bees.
- Adj. many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a
- hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a
- thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty &c.; half a
- dozen, half a hundred &c.; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous;
- numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous,
- multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick,
- studded; galore.
- thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end
- of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as
- blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands
- on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, andheaven
- knows what; endless &c. (infinite) 105.
- Phr. their name is "legion"; acervatim; en foule; "many-headed
- multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young];
- vel prece vel pretio.
-
- #103. Fewness. -- N. fewness &c. adj.; paucity, small number; small
- quantity &c. 32; rarity; infrequency &c. 137; handful, maniple; minority;
- exiguity.
- [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c. v.; elimination,
- sarculation|, decimation; eradication.
- V. be few &c. adj.
- render few &c. adj.; reduce, diminish the nnumber, weed, eliminate,
- thin, decimate.
- Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, thinly scattered, few and far
- between exiguous; infreqent &c. 137; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any;
- to be counted on one's fingers; reduced &c. v.; unrepeated.
- Adv. here and there.
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- #104. Repetition. -- repitition, iteration, reiteration, harping,
- recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony;
- rhythm &c. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.
- chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain;
- rehearsal; rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation.
- cuckoo &c. (imitation) 19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming &c. (roll)
- 407; renewal &c. (restoration) 660.
- twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition;
- reappearance, reproduction; periodicity &c. 138.
- V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp
- upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.
- recur, revert, return, reappear; renew &c. (restore) 660.
- rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on
- the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its
- moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the
- same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate,
- reword.
- Adj. repeated &c. v.; repetitional, repetitionary; recurrent,
- recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant,
- pleonastic.
- monotonous, harping, iterative, unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold;
- aforesaid, aforenamed; above-mentioned, above-said; habitual &c. 613;
- another.
- Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more;
- ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo.
- again and again; over and over, over and over again; many times over;
- time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day &c.; many
- times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time;
- frequently &c. 136.
- Phr. ecce iterum Crispinus; toujours perdrix; "cut and come again"
- [Crabbe]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]; cantilenam eandem
- canis [Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius [Terence].
-
- #105. Infinity. -- N. infinity, infinitude, infiniteness &c. adj.;
- perpetuity &c. 112; boundlessness.
- V. be infinite &c. adj.; know no limits, have no limits, know no
- bounds,have no bounds; go on for ever.
- Adj. infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless, measureless;
- innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible,
- interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite;
- without number, without measure, without limit, without end;
- incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless; untold,
- unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited; perpetual &c. 112.
- Adv. infinitely &c. adj.; ad infinitum.
- Phr. "as boundless as the sea" [Romeo and Juliet].
-
- SECTION VI. TIME
-
- 1. ABSOLUTE TIME
-
- #106. Time. -- N. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span,
- spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course &c.
- 109; snap.
- intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention,
- intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite.
- era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade &c. (period) 108;
- moment, &c. (instant) 113.
- glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of
- time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of
- time; scythe.
- V. continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse &c.
- 109; hold out.
- taketime, take up time, fill time, occupy time.
- pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time,
- talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity
- &c. 134; waste time &c.
- (be inactive) 683.
- Adj. continuing &c. v.; on foot; permanent &c. (durable) 110
- Adv. while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the
- interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the
- time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the
- meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from
- day to day, from hour to hour &c.; hourly, always; for a time, for a
- season;
- till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto,
- heretofore, prior to this, up to this point.
- the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout &c. (completely)
- 52; for good &c. (diuturnity) 110.
- hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante
- Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno
- regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day,
- once.
- Phr. time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs
- against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of
- the essence, "time and tide wait for no man".
- ad calendas Groecas; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"
- [Johnson]; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion [Measure for
- Measure] rich with the spoils of time" [Gray]; tempus edax rerum [Horace);
- "the long hours come and go" [C.G. Rossetti]; "the time is out of joint"
- [Hamlet]; "Time rolls his ceaseless course" [Scott]; "Time the foe of man's
- dominion" [Peacock]; "time wasted is existence, used is life" [Young];
- truditur dies die [Horace]; volat hora per orbem [Lucretius]. ; carpe diem.
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- #107. Neverness. -- N. "neverness"; absence of time, no time; dies
- non; Tib's eve; Greek Kalends, a blue moon.
- Adv. never, ne'er; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of
- the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born
- days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree.
-
- #108. [Definite duration, or portion of time.] Period. -- N. period,
- age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade,
- decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry,
- lunation, moon.
- century, millennium; annus magnus.
- Adj. horary; hourly, annual &c. (periodical) 138.
-
- #108a. Contingent Duration.-- Adv. during pleasure, during good
- behavior; quandiu se bene gesserit.
-
- #109. [Indefinite duration.] Course. -- N. corridors of time, sweep of
- time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time,
- succesof timesion of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time,
- stream of time, tract current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of
- time, flight of time; duration &c. 106.
- [Indefinite time] aorist.
- V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on,
- press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course. out- expire; go
- -, pass- by; be -past &c. 122.
- Adj. elapsing &c. v.; aoristic; progressive. -
- Adv. in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in
- the fullness of time; in time.
- Phr. labitur et labetur [Horace]; truditur dies die [Horace]; fugaces
- labuntur anni [Horace] "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this
- petty pace from day to day" [Macbeth].
-
- #110. [Long duration.] Diuturnity. -- N. diuturnity; a long time, a
- length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness &c. 275;
- perpetuity &c. 112; blue moon, coon's age [U.S.], dog's age.
- durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness &c.
- adj.; continuance, standing; permanence &c. (stability) 150 survival,
- survivance; longevity &c. (age) 128; distance of time.
- protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time; delay
- &c. (lateness) 133.
- V. last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand
- years.
- tarry &c. (be late) 133; drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a
- lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen
- out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.
- out-last, -live; survive; live to fight again.
- Adj. durable; lasting &c. v.; of long duration, of longstanding;
- permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive;
- intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived,
- macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid;
- unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual &c. 112.
- lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out &c. v. long-pending, long-
- winded; slow &c. 275.
- Adv. long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long,
- for many a long day; long ago &c. (in a past time) 122; longo intervallo.
- all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day is
- long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day, &c.; for
- good; permanently &c. adj.
-
- #111. [Short duration.] Transientness. -- N. transience, transientness
- &c. adj.; evanascence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span;
- nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary
- arrangement, interregnum.
- velocity &c. 274; suddenness &c. 113; changeableness &c. 149.
- transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].
- V. be transient &c. adj.; flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade,
- evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away
- like a shadow, pass away like a dream.
- Adj. transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting,
- cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying &c. v.; fugacious, fugitive;
- shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous.
- temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable,
- mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent.
- brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time &c.
- (haste) 684; sudden, momentary &c. (instantaneous) 113.
- Adv. temporarily &c. adj.; pro tempore; for the moment, for a time;
- awhile, en passant, in transitu; in a short time; soon &c. (early) 132;
- briefly &c. adj.; at short notice; on the point of, on the eve of; in
- articulo; between cup and lip.
- Phr. one's days are numbered; the time is up; here today and gone
- tomorrow; non semper erit aestas; eheu! fugaces labuntur anni; sic transit
- gloria mundi; a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour! [Byron]; dum
- loquimur fugerit invidia aetas; fugit hora; all that is transitory is but
- an illusion [Goethe].
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- #112. [Endless duration.] Perpetuity. -- N. perpetuity, eternity,
- everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; interminability,
- agelessness, everlastingness &c. adj.; perpetuation; continued existence,
- uninterrupted existence; perennity; permanence (durability) 110.
- V. last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end.
- eternize, perpetuate.
- Adj. perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, everliving,
- everflowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending;
- ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless,
- unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine;
- neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying,
- imperishable.
- Adv. perpetually &c. adj.; always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for
- aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for
- ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without
- end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the
- crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time" [Macbeth]; till
- doomsday; constantly &c. (very frequently) 136.
- Phr. esto perpetuum; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum
- [Horace]; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison]; "Eternity!
- thou pleasing, dreadful thought" [Addison]; "her immortal part with angels
- lives" [Romeo & Juliet]; ohne Rast [Goethe's motto]; ora e sempre.
-
- #113. [Point of time] Instantaneity. -- N. instantaneity,
- instantaneousness, immediacy; suddenness, abruptness.
- moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath,
- crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time.
- epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute
- &c., very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact
- correct time.
- V. be instantaneous &c. adj.; twinkle, flash.
- Adj. instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt,
- discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous,
- hasty;quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as
- electricity.
- speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift ,lively, blitz; rapid (velocity)
- 274.
- Adv. instantaneously &c. adj.; in no time, in less than no time;
- presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a moment
- &c. n. in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice; in
- one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure; at one jump, in the same breath,
- per saltum, uno saltu; at once, all at once; plump, slap; "at one fell
- swoop"; at the same instant &c. n.; immediately &c. (early) 132; extempore,
- on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment; no sooner said than
- done; just then; slap-dash &c. (haste) 684.
- Phr. touch and go; no sooner said than done.
-
- #114. [Estimation, measurement, and record of time.] Chronometry. --
- N. chronometry, horometry, horology; date, epoch; style, era.
- almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals,
- journal, diary, chronogram.
- [Instruments for the measurement of time]; clock, wall clock, pendulum
- clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch,
- wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital
- clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope,
- chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon,
- horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry.
- chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper; annalist.
- calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese
- calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal
- year.
- V. fix the time, mark the time; date, register, chronicle; measure
- time, beat time, mark time; bear date; synchronize watches.
- Adj. chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical; cinquecento,
- quattrocento, trecento.
- Adv. o'clock.
-
- #115. [False estimate of time.] Anachronism. -- N. anachronism,
- metachronism, parachronism, prochronism; prolepsis, misdate; anticipation,
- antichronism.
- disregard of time, neglect of time, oblivion of time.
- intempestivity &c. 135.
- V. misdate, antedate, postdate, backdate, overdate; anticipate; take
- no note of time, lose track of time; anachronize.
- Adj. misdated &c. v.; undated; overdue, past due; out of date.
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-
- 2. RELATIVE TIME
-
- 1. Time with reference to Succession
-
-
- #116. Priority. -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence,
- pre-existence; precession &c. 280; precursor &c. 64; the past &c. 122;
- premises.
- V. precede, come before; forerun; go before &c. (lead) 280; preexist;
- dawn; presage &c. 511; herald, usher in.
- be beforehand &c. (be early) 132; steal a march upon, anticipate,
- forestall; have the start, gain the start.
- Adj. prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-
- existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; before-mentioned, above-
- mentioned; aforesaid, said; introductory &c. (precursory) 64.
- Adv. before, prior to; earlier; previously &c. adj.; afore, aforehand,
- beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere then, ere now, before then,
- before now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of.
- Phr. prior tempore prior jure.
-
- #117. Posteriority. -- N. posteriority; succession, sequence;
- following &c. 281.; subsequence, supervention; futurity &c. 121; successor;
- sequel &c. 65; remainder, reversion.
- V. follow &c. 281 after, come after, go after; succeed, supervene;
- ensue, occur; step into the shoes of.
- Adj. subsequent, posterior, following, after, later, succeeding,
- postliminious, postnate; postdiluvial, postdiluvian; puisne; posthumous;
- future &c. 121; afterdinner, postprandial.
- Adv. subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent,
- at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon,
- thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons|; from that time, from that
- moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time.
-
- #118. The Present Time. -- N. the present, the present time, the
- present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present
- occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these
- days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce,
- crisis, epoch, day, hour.
- age, time of life.
- Adj. present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is;
- present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment.
- Adv. at this time, at this moment &c. 113; at the present time &c. n.;
- now, at present; at hand.
- at this time of day, today, nowadays; already; even now, but now,
- just now; on the present occasion; for the time being, for the nonce; pro
- hac vice.; on the nail, on the spot; on the spur of the moment, until now;
- to this day, to the present day.
- Phr. "the present hour alone is man's " [Johnson].
-
- #119. [Time different from the present.] Different time. -- N.
- different time, other time.
- [Indefinite time] aorist.
- Adj. aoristic; indefinite.
- Adv. at that time, at which time, at that moment, at that instant;
- then, on that occasion, upon; not now, some other time.
- when; whenever, whensoever; upon which, on which occasion; at another,
- at a different, at some other, at any- time; at various times; some one of
- these days, one of these days, one fine morning; eventually, some day, by
- and by, sooner or later; some time or other; once upon a time
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-
- #120. Synchronism. -- N. synchronism; coexistence, coincidence;
- simultaneousness, simultaneity &c. adj.; concurrence, concomitance, unity
- of time, interim.
- [Having equal times] isochronism.
- contemporary, coetanian.
- V. coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with;
- synchronize.
- Adj. synchronous, synchronal, synchronical, synchronistical;
- simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval,
- coevous; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous.
- Adv. at the same time; simultaneously &c. adj.; together, in concert,
- during the same time; in the same breath; pari passu; in the interim.
- at the very moment &c. 113; just as, as soon as; meanwhile &c. (while)
- 106.
-
- #121. [Prospective time.] Futurity. -- N. futurity, futurition;
- future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent
- time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age,
- approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching
- hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages,
- coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life,
- subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent
- years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of
- doom, remote future.
- approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny &c.
- 152; eventuality.
- heritage, heirs posterity.
- prospect &c. (expectation) 507; foresight &c. 510.
- V. look forwards; anticipate &c. (expect) 507, (foresee) 510;
- forestall &c. (be early) 132.
- come on, draw on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend &c. (be
- destined) 152.
- Adj. future, to come; coming &c. (impending) 152; next, near; close at
- hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect &c. (expectation) 507.
- Adv. prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after
- tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time;
- eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in
- after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while.
- from this time; henceforth, henceforwards; thence; thenceforth,
- thenceforward; whereupon, upon which.
- soon &c. (early) 132; on the eve of, on the point of, on the brink of;
- about to; close upon.
- Phr. quid sit futurum cras fuge quoerere [Horace].
-
- #122. [Retrospective time.] Preterition -- N. the past, past time;
- days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times
- past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times,
- former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time;
- auld lang syne; eld|.
- antiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time;
- remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity
- paleontology, paleography, paleology; palaetiology, archaeology;
- archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; retrospect,
- retrospection, looking back, memory &c. 505.
-
- laudator temporis acti; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary,
- antiquarian; archmologist &c.; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.
- ancestry &c. (paternity) 166.
- V. be past &c. adj.; have expired &c. adj., have run its course, have
- had its day; pass; pass by, go by , pass away, go away , pass off, go off;
- lapse, blow over.
- look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume.
- Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone;
- elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-
- been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return,
- gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete &c. (old)
- 124.
- former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late; ancestral.
- foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect,
- preterpluperfect.
- looking back &c. v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological &c. n.
- Adv. formerly; of old, of yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago,
- over; in the olden time &c. n.; anciently, long ago, long since; a long
- while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago,
- some time since, some time back.
- yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately &c.
- (newly) 123.
- retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore;
- no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric
- times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this
- time; ex post facto.
- Phr. time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go
- home again; fuimus Troes [Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Vergil]; hoc erat in more
- majorum; "O call back yesterday, bid time return" [Richard II]; tempi
- passati; "the eternal landscape of the past" [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum;
- "what's past is prologue" [Tempest]; "whose yesterdays look backward with a
- smile" [Young].
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- #123. Newness. -- N. newness &c. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity;
- youth &c. 127; gloss of novelty.
- innovation; renovation &c. (restoration) 660.
- modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.
- V. renew &c. (restore) 660; modernize.
- Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young &c. 127; evergreen; raw,
- immature; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, unbeaten; fire-new,
- span-new.
- late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent,
- neonatal[med.], new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday;
- just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in
- fashion; in, hip [coll.]; vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid.
- fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.
- Adv. newly &c. adj.; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday,
- the other day; latterly, of late.
- not long ago, a short time ago.
- Phr. di novello tutto par bello; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum
- est prius; una scopa nuova spazza bene.
-
- #124. Oldness. -- N. oldness &c. adj.; age, antiquity; cobwebs of
- antiquity. maturity; decline, decay; senility &c. 128.
- seniority, eldership, primogeniture. archaism &c. (the past) 122;
- thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium; Sanskrit.
- tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
- V. be old &c. adj.; have had its day, have seen its day; become old
- &c. adj.; age, fade, senesce.
- Adj. old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable;
- elder, eldest; firstborn.
- prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleoanthropic, paleolithic,
- ; primordial, primordinate; aboriginal &c. (beginning) 66; diluvian,
- antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial,
- precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoic,
- preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite,
- ancestral, black-letter.
- immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory
- of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.
- antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age,
- obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned,
- behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out;
- senile &c. 128; time worn; crumbling &c. (deteriorated) 659; secondhand.
- old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history.
- Adv. since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of
- Methuselah.
- Phr. vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi [Tacitus].
-
- #125. Morning. [Noon.] -- N. morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime,
- dawn, daybreak; dayspring, foreday, sunup;
- peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush
- of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise;
- cockcrow, cockcrowing; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.
- spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.
- noon; midday, noonday; noontide, merodoam, prime; nooning, noontime.
- summer, midsummer.
- Adj. matin, matutinal; vernal.
- Adv. at sunrise &c. n.; with the sun, with the lark, "when the morning
- dawns".
- Phr. "at shut of evening flowers" [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et
- loup; "flames in the forehead of the morning sky" [Milton]; "the breezy
- call of incense-breathing morn" [Gray].
-
- #126. Evening. [Midnight.] -- N. evening, eve; decline of day, fall of
- day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall,
- curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the
- sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
- afternoon, postmeridian, p.m.
- autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St.
- Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer.
- midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night,
- witching time of night; winter; killing time.
- Adj. vespertine, autumal, nocturnal.
- Phr. "midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-
- vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd"
- [Young].
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- #127. Youth. -- N. youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority;
- infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula;
- minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.
- cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage.
- prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life,
- golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
- Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne,
- beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior;
- hebetic, unfledged.
- Phr. "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray]; youth . . .
- the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
-
- #128. Age. -- N. age; oldness &c. adj.; old age, advanced age, golden
- years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand
- climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity,
- superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of
- years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years
- and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
- seniority, eldership; elders &c. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen,
- father; primogeniture.
- [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology|.
- V. be aged &c. adj.; grow old, get old &c. adj.; age; decline, wane,
- dodder; senesce.
- Adj. aged; old &c. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile|;
- in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime;
- gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe,
- effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years;
- stricken in years; wrinkled, long in the tooth, marked with the crow's
- foot; having one foot in the grave; doting &c. (imbecile) 499; like the
- last of pea time.
- older, elder, oldest, eldest; senior; firstborn; ichiban, ichiro
- [Japanese].
- turned of, years old; of a certain age, no spring chicken, old as
- Methuselah; ancestral; patriarchal &c. (ancient) 124; gerontic.
- Adv. pro tem
- Phr. "give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis
- pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus
- honoribus [Pliny the Younger]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron];
- "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"
- [Proverbs xvi, 31]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to
- grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made" [Rogers].
-
- #129. Infant.-- N. infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling,
- suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.
- child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling,
- bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker,
- callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy,
- hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olivebranch,
- nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry,
- callow; codlin ,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb,
- lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa,
- staddle.
- girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden;
- virgin; hoyden.
- Adj. infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish,
- babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.
- in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in
- leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens.
-
- #130. Veteran.-- N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard;
- grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon;
- sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard
- &c. 501.
- preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers &c.
- (paternity) 166.
- Phr. "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage" [Johnson].
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- #131. Adolescence. -- N. adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism;
- adultness &c. adj.; manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower
- of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life.
- man &c. 373; woman &c. 374; adult, no chicken.
- V. come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion;
- attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have
- sown one's mild oats.
- Adj. adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of
- one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged,
- manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.
-
-
- 3. Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose
-
- #132. Earliness. -- N. {ant. 133} earliness &c. adj.; morning &c. 125.
- punctuality; promptitude &c. (activity) 682; haste &c. (velocity) 274;
- suddenness &c. (instantaneity) 113.
- prematurity, precocity, precipitation, anticipation; a stitch in time.
- V. be early &c. adj., be beforehand &c. adv.; keep time, take time by
- the forelock, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start; steal
- a march upon; gain time, draw on futurity; bespeak, secure, engage,
- preengage.
- accelerate; expedite &c. (quicken) 274; make haste &c. (hurry) 684.
- Adj. early, prime, forward; prompt &c. (active) 682; summary.
- premature, precipitate, precocious; prevenient, anticipatory; rath.
- sudden &c. (instantaneous) 113; unexpected &c. 508; near, near at
- hand; immediate.
- Adv. early, soon, anon, betimes, rath; eft, eftsoons; ere long, before
- long, shortly; .
- beforehand; prematurely &c. adj.; precipitately &c. (hastily) 684; too
- soon; before its time, before one's time; in anticipation; unexpectedly
- &c. 508.
- suddenly &c. (instantaneously) 113; before one can say "Jack
- Robinson", at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the
- spur of the occasion [Bacon]; at once; on the spot, on the instant; at
- sight; offhand, out of hand; a' vue d'oeil; straight, straightway,
- straightforth; forthwith, incontinently, summarily, immediately, briefly,
- shortly, quickly, speedily, apace, before the ink is dry, almost
- immediately, presently at the first opportunity, in no long time, by and
- by, in a while, directly.
- Phr. no sooner said than done, immediately, if not sooner; tout vient
- a temps pour qui sait attendre.
-
- #132a Punctuality -- N. puncuality, promptness, immediateness.
- V. be prompt, be on time, be in time; arrive on time; be in the nick
- of time.
- Adj. timely, seasonable, in time, punctual, prompt.
- Adv. on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right
- on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding
- time|, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's
- breadth.
- Phr. touch and go, not a minute too soon, in the nick of time, just
- under the wire, get on board before the train leaves the station.
-
- #133. Lateness. -- N. {ant. 132} lateness &c. adj.; tardiness &c.
- (slowness) 275.
- delay, delation; cunctation, procrastination; deferring, deferral &c.
- v.; postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause,
- reprieve, stay of execution; protraction, prolongation; Fabian policy,
- medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case; leeway; high time;
- moratorium, holdover.
- V. be late &c. adj.; tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle &c.
- (be inactive) 683; linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain
- time; hang fire; stand over, lie over.
- put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table [parliamentary]; shift
- off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate;
- dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out;
- prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let
- the matter stand over; reserve &c. (store) 636; temperize; consult one's
- pillow, sleep on it.
- lose an opportunity &c. 135; be kept waiting, dance attendance; kick
- one's heels, cool one's heels; faire antichambre; wait impatiently; await
- &c. (expect) 507; sit up, sit up at night.
- Adj. late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious,
- posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory
- &c. (slow) 275; delayed &c. v.; in abeyance.
- Adv. late; lateward, backward; late in the day; at sunset, at the
- eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time,
- after the deadline; too late; too late for &c. 135.
- slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure; ex post facto; sine
- die [parl.].
- Phr. nonum prematur in annum [Horace]; "against the sunbeams serotine
- and lucent" [Longfellow]; ie meglio tardi che mai; deliberando soepe perit
- occasio [Syrus].
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- #134. Occasion. -- N. {ant. 135} timeliness, occasion, opportunity,
- opening, room; event (eventuality) 151; suitable season, proper season ,
- suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness &c. adj.;
- tempestivity.
- crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given
- time.
- nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine
- opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field;
- mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time &c. (leisure) 685.
- V. seize &c. (take) 789 an opportunity, use &c. 677 an opportunity,
- give &c. 784 an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion.
- suit the occasion &c. (be expedient) 646.
- seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur
- l'enclume, make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time
- by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond.
- Adj. opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable.
- providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious,
- auspicious, critical; suitable &c. 23; obiter dicta.
- Adv. opportunely &c. adj.; in proper course, in due course, in proper
- season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the
- nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at
- the eleventh hour, now or never.
- by the way, by the by; en passant, a propos; pro re nata, pro hac
- vice; par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally;
- while speaking of, while on the subject; extempore; on the spur of the
- moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the spot &c. (early) 132.
- Phr. carpe diem, [Horace]; occasionem cognosce; one's hour is come,
- the time is up; that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of
- it; bien perdu bien connu; e sempre l'ora; ex quovis ligno non fit
- Mercurius; nosce tempus; nunc aut nunquam.
-
-
- #135. Untimeliness -- N. {ant. 134} untimeliness, intempestivity,
- unseasonableness, inexpedience; unsuitable time, improper time;
- unreasonableness &c. adj; evil hour; contretemps; intrusion; anachronism
- &c. 115.
- bad time, wrong time, inappropriate time, not the right occasion,
- unsuitable time, inopportune time, poor timing.
- V. be ill timed &c. adj.; mistime, intrude, come amiss, break in upon;
- have other fish to fry; be busy, be occupied.
- lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity,
- neglect &c. 460 an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the
- opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity
- to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by,
- allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow
- the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the
- occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time &c. (be
- inactive) 683; let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the
- horse is stolen.
- Adj. ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred;
- untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season, out of tuen;
- inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky,
- inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate,
- unfavorable; unsuited &c. 24; inexpedient &c. 647.
- unpunctual &c. (late) 133; too late for; premature &c. (early) 132;
- too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-
- twenty hindsight.
- Adv. inopportunely &c. adj.; as ill luck would have it, in an evil
- hour, the time having gone by, a day after the fair.
- Phr. after death the doctor, after meat mustard.
-
-
- 3. RECURRENT TIME
-
-
- #136. Frequency. -- N. frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness;
- repetition &c. 104; normality &c. 80; example (conformity) 82; routine,
- custom (habit) 613.
- regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality
- &c. (exactness) 494; even tenor; system; routine &c. (custom) 613; formula;
- rule &c. (form, regulation) 697; keynote, standard, model; precedent &c.
- (prototype) 22; conformity &c. 82.
- V. recur &c. 104; do nothing but; keep, keep on.
- Adj. frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant,
- perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated &c. 104;
- customary &c. 613 (habit) 613; regular (normal) 80; according to rule &c.
- (conformable) 82.
- common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.
- old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.
- Adv. often, oft; ofttimes, oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly &c. 104;
- unseldom, not unfrequently; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many
- a time and oft; daily, hourly &c.; every day, every hour, every moment &c.
- perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at
- all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day,
- morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) 613 .
- most often; commonly &c. (habitually) 613.
- sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time,
- there being times when, toties quoties, often enough, when the mood
- strikes, again and again.
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- #137. Infrequency.-- N. infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness &c.
- 103; seldomness; uncommonness.
- V. be rare &c. adj.
- Adj. unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few &c.
- 103; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred
- within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous
- experience.
- Adv. seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much,
- infrequently, unfrequently, unoften; scarcely, scarcely ever, hardly ever;
- once in a blue moon.
- once; once -for all, - in a way; pro hac vice.
- Phr. ein mal kein mal.
-
- #138. Regularity of recurrence. Periodicity. -- N. periodicity,
- intermittence; beat; oscillation &c. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm;
- alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity.
- bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say.
- anniversary, jubilee, centenary.
- catamenia;, courses, menses, menstrual flux.
- [Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days
- of the week; Sunday, Monday &c.; months of the year; January &c.; feast,
- fast &c.; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day
- &c.
- Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day;
- Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali,
- groundhog day [U.S.], Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer
- day, Muharram, woodchuck day [U.S.], St. Swithin's day, natal day;
- yearbook; yuletide.
- punctuality, regularity, steadiness.
- V. recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return,
- revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat,
- pulsate; alternate; intermit.
- Adj. periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical;
- recurring &c. v.; intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other.
- hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal|,
- hebdomadary|; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial|; monthly,
- menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial, &c.; centennial, secular;
- paschal, lenten, &c.
- regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork.
- Adv. periodically &c. adj.; at regular intervals, at stated times; at
- fixed established , at established periods; punctually &c. adj. de die in
- diem; from day to day, day by day.
- by turns; in turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and
- on, ride and tie, round and round.
-
- #139. Irregularity of recurrence. -- N. irregularity, uncertainty,
- unpunctuality; fitfulness &c. adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus|.
- Adj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful,
- flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical, unmethodical,
- variable.
- Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits and starts &c. (discontinuously)
- 70.
-
-
- SECTION VII. CHANGE
-
- 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
-
- #140. [Difference at different times.] Change. -- N. change,
- alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation,
- inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn,
- evolution, revolution; diversion; break.
- transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation;
- deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation,
- transmigration, metempsychosis|; avatar; alterative.
- conversion &c. (gradual change) 144; revolution &c. (sudden or radical
- change) 146 inversion &c. (reversal) 218; displacement &c. 185;
- transference &c. 270.
- changeableness &c. 149; tergiversation &c. (change of mind)
- 607.
- V. change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify,
- tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate,
- turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner,
- resume.
- work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure,
- transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes.
- innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give
- a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new
- leaf.
- recast &c. 146; reverse &c. 218; disturb &c. 61; convert into &c. 144.
- Adj. changed &c. v.; newfangled; changeable &c. 149; transitional;
- modifiable; alterative.
- Adv. mutatis mutandis.
- Int. quantum mutatus!
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons
- change tout cela [Moliere]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis; non
- sum qualis eram [Horace]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito
- extinguuntur [Tacitus]; in statu quo ante bellum; "still ending and
- beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet.
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- #141. [Absence of change.] Permanence. -- N. stability &c. 150;
- quiescence &c. 265; obstinacy &c. 606.
- permanence, persistence, endurance; durability; standing, status quo;
- maintenance, preservation, conservation; conservation; law of the Medes and
- Persians; standing dish.
- V. let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest;
- stet [copy editing]; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby, dwell,
- maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive,
- survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing, keep
- one's footing; hold good.
- Adj. stable &c. 150; persisting &c. v.; permanent; established;
- unchanged &c. (change &c. 140); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent;
- monotonous, uncheckered; unfailing.
- undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed; conservative, qualis ab
- incepto; prescriptive &c. (old) 124; stationary &c. 265.
- Adv. in statu quo; for good, finally; at a stand, at a standstill; uti
- possidetis; without a shadow of turning.
- Phr. esto perpetua; nolumus leges Angliae mutari; j'y suis et j'y
- ereste.
-
- #142. [Change from action to rest.] Cessation. -- N. cessation,
- discontinuance, desistance, desinence.
- intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop;
- stopping &c. v.; closure, stoppage, halt; arrival &c. 292. pause, rest,
- lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S. congress].
- dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout,
- meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end
- &c. 67; death &c. 360.
- V. cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold,
- stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out,
- blow out, melt down.
- have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up &c.
- (relinquish) 624.
- hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's
- laurels.
- come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a
- full stop; arrive &c. 292; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away
- &c. (be past) 122; be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.
- intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel; intermit, remit; put an end
- to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power
- down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill;
- stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-
- string, pull the plug on.
- Int. hold! stop! enough! avast! have done! a truce to! soft! leave
- off! tenez!
- Phr. "I pause for a reply" [Julius Caesar].
-
-
- #143. Continuance in action. -- N. continuance, continuation; run;
- perpetuation, prolongation; persistence &c. (perserverance) 604a;
- repetition &c. 104.
- V. continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide,
- keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course;
- carry on, keep up.
- sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate;
- maintain; preserve &c.. 604a; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104.
- keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep
- up the good work; die in harness, die with one's boots on; hold on the even
- tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way.
- let be; stare super antiquas vias; quieta non movere; let things take
- their course; stare decisis [Jurisprudence].
- Adj. continuing &c. v.; uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying,
- unshifting; unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying
- &c. (perpetual) 112; inconvertible.
- Int. keep it up! go to it! right away! right on! attaboy!
- Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari; vestigia nulla retrorsum [Horace];
- labitur et albetur [Horace].
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-
- #144. [Gradual change to something different.] Conversion. -- N.
- conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution,
- sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation;
- development [biol.], developing [photography].
- [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency;
- exchange rate; bureau de change.
- chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.
- passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting &c. v.; phase;
- conjugation; convertibility.
- crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.
- onvert, pervert, renegade, apostate.
- V. be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into,
- evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into,
- pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into,
- resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come
- round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume
- the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse|;
- begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.
- convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form &c. 240; remodel,
- new model, refound, reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.
- Adj. converted into &c. v.; convertible, resolvable into;
- transitional; naturalized.
- Adv. gradually, &c. (slowly) 275 in transitu &c. (transference) 270.
-
- #145. Reversion. -- N. reversion, return; revulsion.
- turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a
- storm. alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; inversion &c. 219; recoil &c.
- 277; retreat, regression, retrogression &c. 283; restoration &c. 660;
- relapse, recidivism &c. 661; atavism; vicinism;
- V. revert, turn back; relapse &c. 661; recoil &c. 277; retreat &c.
- 283; restore &c. 660; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn
- the scale, tip the scale.
- Adj. reverting &c. v.; revulsive, reactionary; retrorse.
- Adv. a rebours.
-
- #146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution. -- N. revolution,
- bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction &c. 162; sudden change,
- radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change;
- quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution.
- jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience|; explosion; spasm,
- convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm.
- legerdemain &c. (trick) 545.
- V. revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something
- new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex.
- Adj. unrecognizable; revolutionary.
-
- #147. [Change of one thing for another.] Substitution. -- N.
- substitution, commutation; supplanting &c. v.; metaphor, metonymy &c.
- (figure of speech) 521.
- [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary
- expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller, stopgap, jury
- rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double;
- changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.
- representative &c. (deputy) 759; palimpsest.
- price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.
- V. substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give
- place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede,
- replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of;
- jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul,
- take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute,
- redeem, compound for.
- Adj. substituted &c.; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious.
- Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room
- of; faute de mieux.
-
- #148. [Double or mutual change.] Interchange. -- N. interchange,
- exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation,
- transposition, shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling [at chess];
- hocus-pocus.
- interchangeableness, interchangeability.
- barter &c. 794; tit for tat &c. (retaliation) 718; cross fire,
- battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo.
- V. interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle,
- change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return
- the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and
- shuttlecock; retaliate &c. 718; requite.
- Adj. interchanged &c. v.; reciprocal, mutual, commutative,
- interchangeable, intercurrent.
- Adv. in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and
- forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his
- turn.
- Adj. substituted &c. v.; vicarious, subdititious.
- Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room
- of; faute de mieux.
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-
- 2. COMPLEX CHANGE
-
- #149. Changeableness. -- N. changeableness &c. adj.; mutability,
- inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium;
- vacillation &c. (irresolution) 605; fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation
- &c. (oscillation) 314.
- restlessness &x. adj. fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest;
- agitation &c. 315.
- moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock,
- harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers; wheel of Fortune;
- transientness &c. 111.
- V. fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter,
- shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn
- about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and
- change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605; oscillate &c.
- 314; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes;
- alternate; have as man phases as the moon.
- Adj. changeable, changeful; changing &c. 140; mutable, variable,
- checkered, ever changing; protean, proteiform|; versatile.
- unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled;
- fluctuating &c. v.; restless; agitated &c. 315; erratic, fickle; irresolute
- &c. 605; capricious &c. 608; toucb and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic;
- vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable,
- plastic, mobile; transient &c. 111; wavering.
- Adv. seesaw &c. (oscillation) 314; off and on.
- Phr. "a rolling stone gathers no moss"; pictra mossa non fa muschis;
- honores mutant mores; varium et mutabile semper femina [Vergil].
-
- #150. Stability. -- N. stability; immutability &c. adj.;
- unchangeableness &c. adj.; constancy; stable equilibrium, immobility,
- soundness, vitality, stabiliment, stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb.
- establishment, fixture; rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's
- spots, Ethiopia's skin.
- permanence &c. 141; obstinacy &c. 606.
- V. be firm &c. adj.; stick fast; stand firm, keep firm, remain firm;
- weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith,
- don't give in, don't buckle under.
- settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate; retain,
- keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten &c. (join) 43; set on its legs,
- float; perpetuate.
- settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's
- abode &c. 184; build one's house on a rock.
- Adj. unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be
- changed, constant; permanent &c. 141; invariable, undeviating; stable,
- durable; perennial &c. (diuturnal) 110.
- fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid;
- fiducial; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled, established &c.
- v.; vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable.
- tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as
- a rock; firmly seated, firmly established &c. v.; deep-rooted,
- ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate &c. 606.
- transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded.
- indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable,
- irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable,
- irreducible; indissoluble, indissolvable; indestructible, undying,
- imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous; insusceptible,
- insusceptible of change.
- Int. stet.
- Phr. littera scripta manet.
-
-
- Present Events
-
- #151. Eventuality. -- N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident,
- affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency,
- juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just
- the facts; phenomenon; advent.
- business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance,
- particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass,
- emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion) 143.
- the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in
- general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day;
- course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run
- of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life,
- vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents &c. (chance) 156; situation &c.
- (circumstances) 8.
- V. happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off,
- comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come
- on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall
- in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up,
- spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast
- up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its
- course; pass off &c. (be past) 122.
- meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass
- through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be
- one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; ; endure &c. (feel)
- 821.
- Adj. happening &c. v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the
- air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis; at issue, in question;
- incidental.
- eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous,
- signal.
- Adv. eventually; in the event of, in case, just in case; in the course
- of things; as things, times go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls,
- cat jumps; as it may turn out, happen.
- Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie
- crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future
- will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance"
- [Tennyson]; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" [Tennyson] "sprinkled
- along the waste of years" [Keble].
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-
-
- Future Events
-
- #152. Destiny. -- N. destiny &c. (necessity) 601; future existence,
- post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come, after
- life; futurity &c. 121; everlasting life, everlasting death; life beyond
- the grave, world beyond the grave; prospect &c. (expectation) 507.
- V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on,
- approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom,
- have in store for.
- Adj. impending &c. v.; destined; about to be, happen; coming, in
- store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at
- hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing,
- forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in
- prospect &c. (expected) 507; looming in the distance, horizon, future;
- unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant &c. (producing)
- 161.
- Adv. in time, the long run; all in good time; eventually &c. 151;
- whatever may happen &c. (certainly) 474; as chance &c. 156 would have it.
-
-
-
- SECTION VIII. CAUSATION
-
- 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS
-
- #153. [Constant antecedent]. Cause.-- N. cause, origin, source,
- principle, element; occasioner, prime mover, primum mobile; vera causa;
- author &c. (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groudwork, foundation
- &c. (support) 215.
- spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead;
- fons et origo, genesis; descent &c. (paternity) 166; remote cause;
- influence.
- pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate
- cause, causa causans; straw that breaks the camel's back.
- ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion,
- derivation; final cause &c. (intention) 620; les dessous des cartes;
- undercurrents.
- rudiment. egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon,
- nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule, radicle,
- semen, sperm.
- nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed.
- causality, causation; origination; production &c. 161.
- V. be the cause &c. n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to,
- give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate;
- bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create &c. 161; set
- up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, institute, lay the foundation
- of; lie at the root of.
- procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke,
- entail, operate; elicit, provoke.
- conduce to &c. (tend to) 176; contribute; have a hand in the pie, have
- a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common
- origin; derive its origin &c. (effect) 154.
- Adj. caused &c. v; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial;
- aboriginal; protogenal; radical; embryonic, embryotic; in embryo, in ovo;
- seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a common origin.
- Adv. because &c. 155; behind the scenes.
- Phr. causa latet vis est notissima [Ovid]; felix qui potuit rerum
- cognoscere causas [Vergil].
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-
- #154. [Constant sequent.] Effect.-- N. effect, consequence;
- aftergrowth, aftercome; derivative, derivation; result; resultant,
- resultance; upshot, issue, denouement; end &c. 67; development, outgrowth,
- fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.
- production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature,
- creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits, firstlings; heredity, telegony;
- premices premises.
- V. be the effect of &c. n. ; be due to,be owing to; originate in,
- originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from,
- emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from,
- issue from, flow from ,result from , follow from, derive its origin from,
- accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge
- upon, turn upon.
- take the consequences, sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
- Adj. owing to; resulting from &c. v.; derivable from; due to; caused
- by &c. 153; ; dependent upon; derived from, evolved from; derivative;
- hereditary; telegonous.
- Adv. of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently; as a
- consequence, in consequence; through, all along of, necessarily,
- eventually.
- Phr. cela va sans dire, "thereby hangs a tale" [Taming of the Shrew].
-
- #155. [Assignment of cause] Attribution -- N. attribution, theory,
- etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for &c. v,;
- palaetiology1, imputation, derivation from.
- filiation, affiliation; pedigree &c. (paternity) 166.
- explanation &c. (interpretation) 522; reason why &c. (cause) 153.
- V. attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to,
- trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on,
- ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon;
- account for, derive from, point out the reason &c. 153; theorize; tell how
- it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.
- Adj. attributed &c. v.; attributable &c. v.; referable to, referible
- to, due to, derivable from; owing to &c. (effect) 154; putative; ecbatic.
- Adv. hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because,
- owing to; on that account; from this cause, from that cause; thanks to,
- forasmuch as; whence, propter hoc.
- why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how
- does it happen?
- in some way, in some such way; somehow, somehow or other.
- Phr. that is why; hinc illae lachrymae [Horace].
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- 1. Whewell History of the inductive Sciences, book xviii vol. iii.p.
- 397 (3d edit.).
- 2 The word Chance has two distinct meanings: the first, the absence
- of assignable cause, as above; and the second, the absence of design -- for
- the latter see 621.
-
-
-
- #156. [Absence of assignable cause.] Chance. 2 -- N. chance,
- indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley,
- random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate &c.
- (necessity) 601; equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up &c. 621; turn of
- the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents,
- fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails,
- flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae.
- probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck;
- accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.
- contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; situation (circumstance) 8.
- statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking;
- assurance; speculation, gaming &c. 621.
- V. chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's -fate &c. 601;
- stumble on light upon; take one's chance &c. 621.
- Adj. casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless,
- incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random,
- statistical; possible &c. 470; unintentional &c. 621.
- Adv. by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance &c.
- (possibly) 470; for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would
- have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would
- have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may
- happen; as the case may be.
- Phr. " grasps the skirts of happy chance " [Tennyson]; " the accident
- of an accident " [Lord Thurlow]. "There but for the grace of God go I."
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-
- 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
-
- #157. Power.-- N. power; potency, potentiality; jiva; puissance,
- might, force, energy &c. 171; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency,
- sway, control; prepotency, prepollence|; almightiness, omnipotence;
- authority &c. 737; strength &c. 159.
- ability; ableness &c. adj.; competency; efficacy; efficiency;
- validity, cogency; enablement; vantage ground; influence &c. 175.
- pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism,
- galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; attraction;
- vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva [Latin]; potential energy, dynamic
- energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live
- wire.
- capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [Latin];
- faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property,
- qualification, susceptibility.
- V. be powerful &c. adj.; gain power &c. n.
- belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can.
- give power, confer power, exercise power &c. n.; empower, enable,
- invest; indue, endue; endow, arm; strengthen &c. 159; compel &c. 744.
- Adj. powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to;
- cogent, valid; efficient; effective, effectual, efficacious, adequate,
- competent; multipotent, plenipotent, omnipotent; almighty.
- forcible &c. adj. (energetic) 171; influential &c. 175; productive &c.
- 168.
- Adv. powerfully &c. adj.; by virtue of, by dint of.
- Phr. a toute force; <gr/dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen/gr>; eripuit
- coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis [Latin]; fortis cadere cedere non potest
- [Latin].
-
- #158. Impotence.-- N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement,
- impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude,
- incompetence; indocility; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency.
- telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the
- pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy;
- Quaker gun.
- inefficacy &c. (inutility) 645; failure &c. 732.
- helplessness &c. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy,
- syncope, sideration|, deliquium|, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the
- brain, inanition; emasculation, orchotomy.
- cripple, old woman, muff, mollycoddle.
- V. be impotent &c. adj.; not have a leg to stand on.
- vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [French], vouloir prendre la lune
- avec les dents [French].
- collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, end
- in smoke &c. (fail) 732.
- render powerless &c. adj.; deprive of power; disable, disenable;
- disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the
- hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim,
- lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote;
- ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the
- guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in
- one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of
- gear.
- unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter.
- shatter, exhaust, weaken &c. 160.
- Adj. powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent;
- innefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified,
- disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled &c. v.; armless.
- harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified,
- indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable.
- paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless,
- marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out
- of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless;
- laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized;
- graveled &c. (in difficulty) 704; helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without
- a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.
- null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual
- &c. (failing) 732; inadequate &c. 640; inefficacious &c. (useless) 645.
- Phr. der kranke Mann; "desirous still but impotent to rise"
- [Shenstone].
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-
- #159. [Degree of power.] Strength.-- N. strength; power &c. 157;
- energy &c. 171; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force;
- spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.
- stoutness &c. adj.; lustihood, stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews
- and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.
- athletics, athleticism; gymnastics, feats of strength.
- adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone.
- athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson,
- Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed.
- strengthening &c. v.; invigoration, refreshment, refocillation.
- [Science of forces] dynamics, statics.
- V. be strong &c. adj., be stronger; overmatch.
- render strong &c. adj.; give strength &c. n.; strengthen, invigorate,
- brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up,
- wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on
- one's legs; vivify; refresh &c. 689; refect; reenforce &c. (restore) 660.
- Adj. strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout,
- robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.
- resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable,
- unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable;
- incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all
- powerful, all sufficient; sovereign.
- able-bodied; athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean; muscular,
- brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart,
- gigantic.
- manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile.
- unweakened, unallayed, unwithered, unshaken, unworn, unexhausted; in
- full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of power.
- stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion,
- strong as a horse, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in
- high feather; like a giant refreshed.
- Adv. strongly &c. adj.; by force &c. n.; by main force & c. (by
- compulsion) 744.
- Phr. "our withers are unwrung" [Hamlet].
- Blut und Eisen; coelitus mihi vires; du fort au diable; en habiles
- gens; ex vi termini; flecti non frangi; "he that wrestles with us
- strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill" [Burke]; "inflexible in
- faith invincible in arms" [Beattie].
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- #160. Weakness.-- N. weakness &c. adj.; debility, atony, relaxation,
- languor, enervation; impotence &c. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality;
- fragility, flaccidity; inactivity &c. 683.
- anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood.
- declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength;
- delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia,
- sprain, strain.
- reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards.
- softling, weakling; infant &c. 129; youth &c. 127.
- V. be weak &c. adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake,
- halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.
- render weak &c. adj.; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of
- strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman &c.
- (render powerless) 158; cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of;
- dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the
- strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
- Adj. weak, feeble, debile|; impotent &c. 158; relaxed, unnerved, &c.
- v.; sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic,
- asthenic; nervous.
- soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly.
- frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, gimcrack,
- gingerbread; rickety, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering &c. v.; broken,
- lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied &c. 158; decrepit.
- languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish; sickly &c. (disease) 655;
- dull, slack, evanid|, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed,
- rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the
- worse for wear.
- unstrengthened &c. 159, unsupported, unaided, unassisted; aidless,
- defenseless &c. 158.
- on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken,
- weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as
- gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless &c. 429.
- Phr. non sum qualis eram.
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- #161. Production.-- N. {ant. 162, 158} production, creation,
- construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture,
- erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus;
- putting together &c. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance;
- achievement &c. (completion) 729.
- flowering, fructification; inflorescence.
- bringing forth &c. v.: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth,
- delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics;
- geniture; gestation &c. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution,
- development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination,
- heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration,
- propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen &c. 357.
- spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis,
- abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis,
- oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis,
- homogenesis, xenogenesis1; authorship, publication; works, oeuvre.
- biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny; tocogony, vacuolization.
- edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower,
- fruit.
- V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct,
- fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel;
- build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish,
- constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish &c.
- (complete) 729.
- flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup,
- kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be
- brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.
- make productive &c. 168; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate,
- impregnate; procreate, progenerate, propagate; engender; bring into being,
- call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up.
- induce, superinduce; suscitate|; cause &c. 153; acquire &c. 775.
- Adj. produced, producing &c. v.; productive of; prolific &c. 168;
- creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big
- with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw,
- brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous.
- digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic; ectogenous, gamic,
- haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous.
- architectonic.
- Phr. ex nihilo nihil; fiat lux; materiam superabat opus [Ovid]; nemo
- dat quod non habet [Latin].
-
- #162. [Nonproduction.] Destruction.-- N. {ant. 161} destruction;
- waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption;
- disorganization.
- fall, downfall, ruin, peridition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc,
- delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration;
- desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.
- extinction, annihilation; destruction of life &c. 361; knock-down
- blow; doom, crack of doom.
- destroying &c. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion,
- suppression; abolition &c. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm; sacrifice;
- ravage, devastation, razzia; incendiarism; revolution &c. 146; extirpation
- &c. (extraction) 301; commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation
- &c. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.
- V. be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to
- pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to
- the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack
- and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all
- with; totter to its fall.
- destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual &c. 756;
- sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset,
- subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish*, undo; break
- up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat
- down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot
- out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.
- smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver;
- batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to
- pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to
- tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over,
- knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, ingulf,
- submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge,
- raze; level with the dust, level with the ground.
- deal destruction, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle &c.
- (render useless) 645; devour, swallow up, desolate, devastate, sap, mine,
- blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate,
- extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out;
- lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush
- under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work
- of, make clean sweep of, make mincement of; cut up root and branch, chop
- into pieces; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard;
- strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up,
- ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate &c. 301.
- Adj. destroyed & c. v.; perishing &c. v.; trembling to its fall,
- nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of -destruction &c.
- n.; extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing.
- destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory|; destroying
- &c. n. suicidal; deadly &c. (killing) 361.
- Adv. with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
- Phr. delenda est Carthago; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit; ecrasez
- l'infame [Voltaire].
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- #163. Reproduction.-- N. reproduction, renovation; restoration &c.
- 660; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis,
- revivication; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection,
- reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix.
- generation &c. (production) 161; multiplication.
- V. reproduce; restore &c. 660; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate,
- revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, refashion, stir the embers, put into the
- crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge.
- crop up, spring up like mushrooms.
- Adj. reproduced &c. v.; renascent, reappearing; reproductive;
- suigenetic.
-
- #164. Producer.-- N. producer, originator, inventor, author, founder,
- generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker &c. (agent) 690;
- prime mover.
-
- #165. Destroyer.-- N. destroyer &c. (destroy &c. 162); cankerworm &c.
- (bane) 663; assassin &c. (killer) 361; executioner &c. (punish) 975;
- biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast; nihilist.
-
- #166. Paternity.-- N. paternity; parentage; consanguinity &c. 11.
- parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor,
- progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great-
- grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap.
- house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line,
- family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth,
- ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.
- motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother.
- Adj. paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear,
- patriarchal.
- Phr. avi numerantur avorum; "happy he with such a mother" [Tennyson];
- hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo; philosophia stemma non inspicit
- [Seneca].
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- #167. Posterity.-- N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring,
- brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs;
- great-grandchild.
- child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule,
- shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set;
- ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive;
- chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.
- straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.
- Adj. filial; diphyletic.
- Phr. "the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth].
-
- #168. Productiveness -- N. productiveness &c. adj.; fecundity,
- fertility, luxuriance, uberty|.
- pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation,
- procreation; superfetation.
- milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk
- and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish,
- rowen; protoplasm; fertilization.
- V. make -productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate,
- fertilize, spermative, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, multiply;
- produce &c. 161; conceive.
- Adj. productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful,
- frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous.
- procreant, procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic;
- multiparous; omnific, propagable.
- parturient &c. (producing) 161; profitable &c. (useful) 644.
-
- #169. Unproductiveness.-- N. unproductiveness &c. adj.; infertility,
- sterility, infecundity; impotence &c. 158; unprofitableness &c.
- (inutility) 645.
- waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.
- V. be - unproductive &c. adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to
- nothing.
- [make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.
- Adj. unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, unfertile,
- unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow;
- teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable &c. (useless) 645; null and
- void, of no effect.
-
- #170. Agency.-- N. agency, operation, force, working, strain,
- function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking,
- interaction; procurement.
- causation &c. 153; instrumentality &c. 631; influence &c. 175; action
- &c. (voluntary) 680; modus operandi &c. 627.
- quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke.
- V. be -in action &c. adj.; operate, work; act, act upon; perform,
- play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.
- come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring
- to bear upon.
- Adj. operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual.
- at work, on foot; acting &c. (doing) 680; in operation, in force, in
- action, in play, in exercise; acted upon, wrought upon.
- Adv. by the -agency &c. n.- of; through &c. (instrumentality) 631; by
- means of &c. 632.
- Phr. "I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair"
- [Tennyson].
-
- #171. Physical Energy.-- N. energy, physical energy, force, keenness
- &c. adj.; intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire;
- rush.
- acrimony, acritude; causiticity, virulence; poignancy; harshness &c.
- adj.; severity, edge, point; pungency &c. 392.
- cantharides; seasoning &c. (condiment) 393.
- activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition,
- splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy &c. 682;
- quicksilver.
- resolution &c. (mental energy) 604; exertion &c. (effort) 686;
- excitation &c. (mental) 824.
- V. give -energy &c. n.; energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert;
- sharpen, intensify; inflame &c. (render violent) 173; wind up &c.
- (strengthen) 159.
- strike home, into home, hard home; make an impression.
- Adj. strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe,
- keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.
- rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant,
- harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic,
- escharotic|; racy &c. (pungent) 392.
- potent &c. (powerful) 157; radioactive.
- Adv. strongly &c. adj.; fortiter in re; with telling effect.
- Phr. the steam is up; vires acquirit eundo; "the race by vigor not by
- vaunts is won" [Pope].
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- #172. Physical Inertness.-- N. inertness, dullness &c. adj.; inertia,
- vis inertioe, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor; quiescence &c. 265;
- latency, inaction; passivity.
- mental inertness; sloth &c. (inactivity) 683; inexcitability &c. 826;
- irresolution &c. 605; obstinacy &c. 606; permanence &c. 141.
- V. be -inert &c. adj.; hang fire, smolder.
- Adj. inert, inactive, passive; torpid &c. 683; sluggish, dull, heavy,
- flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.
- latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted.
- Adv. inactively &c. adj.; insuspense, inabeyance.
-
- #173. Violence.-- N. violence, inclemency, vehemence, might,
- impetuosity; boisterousness &c. adj.; effervescence, ebullition;
- turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump [U. S.], riot, row, rumpus, le
- diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.
- severity &c. 739; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation,
- malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force;
- outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe;
- hysterics, passion &c. (state of excitability) 825.
- outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge,
- volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion|,
- torrent.
- turmoil &c. (disorder) 59; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; storm,
- tempest, rough weather; squall &c. (wind) 349; earthquake, volcano,
- thunderstorm.
- berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone,
- Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater &c. (blusterer) 887.
- V. be -violent &c. adj.; run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage;
- run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong,
- rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot, make a row, kick up a row; ;
- rough house*; bluster, rage, roar, riot, storm; boil, boil over; fume,
- foam, come on like a lion; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod,
- Herod; spread like wildfire.
- break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode|,
- fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break
- open, force open, prize open.
- render -violent &c. adj.; sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite,
- annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle,
- suscitate|, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate,
- convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the
- flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.
- explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize,
- fulminate.
- Adj. violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle,
- bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.
- turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging &c. v.; troublous, riotous;
- tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated;
- ravening, tameless; frenzied &c. (insane) 503. desperate &c. (rash) 863;
- infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.
- fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.
- savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.
- excited &c. v.; unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed,
- unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, unmitigable;
- uncontrollable, incontrollable; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic.
- spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating &c. v.; volcanic,
- meteoric; stormy &c. (wind) 349.
- Adv. violently &c. adj.; amain; by storm, by force, by main force;
- with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the
- sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand,
- through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a
- toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.
- Phr. furor arma ministrat; "blown with restless violence round about
- the pendent world" [Measure for Measure].
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- #174. Moderation.-- N. moderation, lenity &c. 740; temperateness,
- gentleness &c. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness &c. (inexcitability)
- 826.
- moderating &c. v.; anaphrodisia; relaxation, remission, mitigation,
- tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification.
- measure, juste milieu, golden mean, <gr/ariston metron/gr>.
- moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic,
- carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk,
- opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.
- V. be -moderate &c. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compass;
- sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.
- moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy|; attemper, contemper;
- mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe,
- subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken &c. 160; lessen
- &c. (decrease) 36; check palliate.
- tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose,
- still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame,
- damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep,
- deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off;
- slake; curb &c. (restrain) 751; tame &c. (subjugate) 749; smooth over; pour
- oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre
- de l'eau dans son vin.
- go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"
- [Midsummer-Night's Dream].
- Adj. moderate; lenient &c. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober,
- temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered &c. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet,
- tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable;
- pacific, halcyon.
- unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive,
- anodyne; hypnotic &c. 683; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac.
- mild as mother's milk; milk and water.
- Adv. moderately &c. adj.; gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half
- speed; within bounds, within compass; in reason.
- Phr. est modue in rebus.
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- #175. Influence.-- N. influence; importance &c. 642; weight, pressure,
- preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency;
- dominance, reign; control, domination, pull*; authority &c.737; capability
- &c. (power) 157; effect &c. 154; interest.
- footing; purchase &c. (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.
- tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices.
- V. have -influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight,
- weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work
- upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.
- run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over
- weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife &c. adj.; spread
- like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper
- hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.
- be recognized, be listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing;
- play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead,
- pull the strings; turn the scale, throw one's weight into the scale; set
- the fashion, lead the dance.
- Adj. influential, effective; important &c. 642; weighty; prevailing
- &c. v.; prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the
- ascendant, hegemonical.
- Adv. with telling effect.
- Phr. tel maure tel valet.
-
- #175a. Absence of Influence.-- N. impotence &c. 158; powerlessness;
- inertness &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10.
- V. have no -influence &c. 175.
- Adj. uninfluential, ineffective; unconducing, unconducive,
- unconducting to; powerless &c. 158; irrelevant &c. 10.
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- #176. Tendency.-- N. tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness,
- proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition,
- inclination, propensity, susceptibiliy; conatus, nisus; liability &c. 177;
- quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain;
- humor, mood; drift &c. (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement;
- applicability &c. (utility) 644; subservience &c. (instrumentality) 631.
- V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to,
- trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote
- &c. (aid) 707.
- Adj. tending &c. v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to,
- calculated to; liable &c. 177; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631; useful
- &c. 644; subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
- Adv. for, whither.
-
- #177. Liability.-- N. liability, liableness; possibility, contingency;
- susceptivity, susceptibility.
- V. be -liable &c. adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance,
- stand a chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to.
- Adj. liable, subject; in danger &c. 665; open to, exposed to,
- obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to.
- contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at
- the mercy of.
-
- 5. Combinations of Causes
-
- #178. Concurrence.-- N. concurrence, cooperation, coagency; union;
- agreement &c. 23; consilience; consent, coincidence &c. (assent) 488;
- alliance; concert &c. 709; partnership &c. 712.
- V. concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together,
- pull together.
- &c. (cooperate) 709; help to &c. (aid) 707.
- keep pace with, run parallel; go with, go along with, go hand in hand
- with.
- Adj. concurring &c. v.; concurrent, in alliance with, banded together,
- of one mind, at one with.
- Adv. with one consent.
-
- #179. Counteraction.-- N. counteraction, opposition; contrariety &c.
- 14; antagonism, polarity; clashing &c. v.; collision, interference,
- inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction &c.
- (recoil) 277; counterblast; neutralization &c. (compensation) 30; vis
- inertiae; check & c. (hindrance) 706.
- voluntary opposition &c. 708, voluntary resistance &c. 719; repression
- &c. (restraint) 751.
- V. counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict
- with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate
- against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose &c. 708; traverse; withstand
- &c. (resist) 719; hinder &c. 706; repress &c. (restrain) 751; react &c.
- (recoil) 277.
- undo, neutralize; counterpoise &c. (compensate) 30; overpoise.
- Adj. counteracting &c. v.; antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive,
- renitent, reactionary; contrary &c. 14.
- Adv. although &c. 30; in spite of &c. 708; against.
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- CLASS II
-
- WORDS RELATING TO SPACE
-
-
- SECTION I. S P A C E I N G E N E R A L
-
- 1. ABSTRACT SPACE
-
- #180. [Indefinite space.] Space.-- N. space, extension, extent,
- superficial extent, expanse, stretch; room, scope, range, field, way,
- expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.
- latitude, play.
- spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage, margin; opening,
- sphere, arena.
- open space, free space; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wildness,
- wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna.
- abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited space; infinity &c. 105; world;
- ubiquity &c. (presence) 186; length and breadth of the land.
- proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches;
- square inches, square yards&c.; ares, arpents.
- Adj. spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample;
- widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless &c. (infinite)
- 105; shoreless, trackless, pathless; extended.
- Adv. extensively &c. adj.; wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and
- wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world,
- throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every
- quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from
- pole to pole, from China to Peru [Johnson], from Indus to the pole [Pope],
- from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the
- wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the
- uttermost parts of the earth.
-
- #180a. Inextension.-- N. inextension, nonextension, point; dot; atom
- &c. (smallness) 32.
-
- #181. [Definite space.] Region.-- N. region, sphere, ground, soil,
- area, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle;
- pale &c. (limit) 233; compartment, department; clearing; domain, tract,
- territory, country, canton, county, shire, province, arrondissement,
- mofussil, parish, township, commune, ward; wapentake, hundred, riding,
- lathe, garth, soke, tithing, bailiwick; principality, duchy, kingdom;
- archduchy, archdukedom.
- arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, inclosure,
- close, enclave, field, court; street &c. (abode) 189.
- clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.
- Adj. territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.
-
- #182. [Limited space.] Place.-- N. place, lieu, spot, point, dot;
- niche, nook &c. (corner) 244; hole; pigeonhole &c. (receptacle) 191;
- compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode
- &c. 189; locality &c. (situation) 183.
- ins and outs; every hole and corner.
- Adv. somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in
- various places, passim.
-
- 2. RELATIVE SPACE
-
- #183. Situation.-- N. situation, position, locality, locale, status,
- latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect,
- attitude, posture, pose.
- place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings &c.
- (direction) 278; spot &c. (limited space) 182.
- topography, geography, chorography; map &c. 554.
- V. be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in.
- Adj. situate, situated; local, topical, topographical &c. n.
- Adv. in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; here abouts, there
- abouts, where abouts; in place, here, there.
- in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in
- such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and
- such environs, amidst such and such entourage.
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-
- #184. Location.-- N. location, localization; lodgment; deposition,
- reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment,
- settlement, installation; fixation; insertion &c. 300.
- anchorage, mooring, encampment.
- plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization,
- domestication, situation; habitation &c. (abode) 189; cohabitation; "a
- local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; endenization,
- naturalization.
- V. place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set,
- seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix,
- pin, root; graft; plant &c. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down,
- deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed,
- imbed; vest, invest in.
- billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put
- up, bag.
- inhabit &c. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike
- root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down;
- settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself,
- establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac,
- burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's
- horses at; keep house.
- endenizen, naturalize, adopt.
- put back, replace &c. (restore) 660.
- Adj. placed &c. v.; situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed,
- rooted; domesticated; vested in, unremoved.
- moored &c. v.; at anchor.
-
- #185. Displacement.-- N. displacement, elocation, transposition.
- ejectment &c. 297; exile &c. (banishment) 893; removal &c.
- (transference) 270.
- misplacement, dislocation &c. 61; fish out of water.
- V. displace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile &c. (seclude)
- 893; ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft
- off; lade &c. 184.
- unload, emply &c. (eject) 297; transfer &c. 270; dispel.
- vacate; depart &c. 293.
- Adj. displaced &c. v.; unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished,
- unsettled; houseless, homeless; out of place, out of a situation.
- misplaced, out of its element.
-
- 3. EXISTENCE IN SPACE
-
- #186. Presence.-- N. presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance;
- whereness.
- permeation, pervasion; diffusion &c. (dispersion) 73.
- ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness; omnipresence.
- bystander &c. (spectator) 444.
- V. exist in space, be present &c. adj.; assister; make one of, make
- one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's
- face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy.
- people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge,
- nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode &c. (be located) 184; tenant.
- resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit.
- fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through;
- over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.
- Adj. present; occupying, inhabiting &c. v.; moored &c. 184; resiant,
- resident, residentiary; domiciled.
- ubiquitous, ubiquitary; omnipresent; universally present.
- peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited.
- Adv. here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home,
- afield; here there and everywhere &c. (space) 180; in presence of, before;
- under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona.
- on the spot.
- Phr. nusquam est qui ubique est [Seneca].
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- #187. [Nullibiety.1] <-- 1 Bishop Wilkins. --> Absence.-- N. absence;
- inexistence &c. 2; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi.
- emptiness &c. adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa;
- exemption; hiatus &c. (interval) 198; lipotype|!.
- truant, absentee.
- nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive.
- V. be absent &c. adj.; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant,
- absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof.
- withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away &c. 293.
- Adj. absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing;
- lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence &c. 2.
- empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited;
- tenantless; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.
- Adv. without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in
- default of; sans; behind one's back.
- Phr. the bird has flown, non est inventus.
- "absence makes the heart grow fonder" [Bayley]; "absent in body but
- present in spirit" [1 Corinthians v, 3]; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit
- [Propertius]; "Achilles absent was Achilles still" [Homer]; aux absents les
- os; briller par son absence; "conspicious by his absence" [Russell]; "in
- the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet" [B. Jonson].
-
- #188. Inhabitant.-- N. inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller,
- indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate,
- tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter,
- backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan,
- cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter;
- compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying
- guest; planter.
- native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones; Englishman, John Bull;
- newcomer &c. (stranger) 57.
- aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck*,
- downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle
- Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
- garrison, crew; population; people &c. (mankind) 372; colony,
- settlement; household; mir.
- V. inhabit &c. (be present) 186; endenizen &c. (locate oneself) 184.
- Adj. indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal, autochthonous; British;
- English; American; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh; domestic;
- domiciliated, domiciled; naturalized, vernacular, domesticated;
- domiciliary.
- in the occupation of; garrisoned by, occupied by.
-
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-
- #189. [Place of habitation, or resort.] Abode.-- N. abode, dwelling,
- lodging, domicile, residence, address, habitation, where one's lot is
- cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat,
- lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance|, tabernacle,
- throne, ark.
- home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth,
- hearth stone; chimney corner, ingleside; harem, seraglio, zenana; household
- gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal
- domicile; native soil, native land.
- nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower, &c. 191; lair, den, cave, hole,
- hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert,
- resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah.
- bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation; barrack,
- casemate, casern.
- tent &c. (covering) 223; building &c. (construction) 161; chamber &c.
- (receptacle) 191; xenodochium.
- tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft.
- cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy,
- shanty, dugout [U.S.], wigwam; pen &c. (inclosure) 232; barn, bawn; kennel,
- sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable,
- dovecote, columbary, columbararium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine
- dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house;
- shack, shebang*, tepee, topek.
- house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in
- urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court,
- manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country
- seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement
- house; temple &c. 1000.
- hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city,
- capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat;
- courthouse [U.S.]; ghetto.
- street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk,
- embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close,
- yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.
- square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade,
- peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market
- place, place, plaza.
- anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.
- quarter, parish &c. (region) 181.
- assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn;
- hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice;
- public house, pot house, mug house; gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel
- house* [U.S.], cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive [U.S.],
- exchange [euphemism, U.S.]; grill room, saloon [U.S.], shebeen; coffee
- house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada;
- almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse [U.S.].
- garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne.
- V. take up one's abode &c. (locate oneself) 184; inhabit &c. (be
- present) 186.
- Adj. urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic;
- domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.
- Phr. eigner Hert ist goldes Werth; "even cities have their graves"
- [Longfellow]; ubi libertas ibi partria.
-
- #190. [Things contained.] Contents.-- N. contents; cargo, lading,
- freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of,
- basket of, &c. (receptacle) 191 of; inside &c. 221.
- stuffing, ullage.
- V. load, lade, ship, charge, fill, stuff.
-
- #191. Receptacle.-- N. receptacle; inclosure &c. 232; recipient,
- receiver, reservatory.
- compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess,
- nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave &c. (concavity) 252.
- capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder;
- pericarp, udder.
- stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard,
- breadbasket; mouth.
- pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule,
- wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel,
- reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags;
- portfolio; quiver &c. (magazine) 636.
- chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk,
- bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack
- [U.S.]; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.
- vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier,
- buck-basket, hopper, maund|, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket,
- whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle,
- utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon.
- [For liquids] cistern &c. (store) 636; vat, caldron, barrel, cask,
- puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora,
- bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon;
- demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn,
- epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin,
- pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug,
- pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead,
- capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice,
- tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet|, tureen.
- bail, beaker, billy, canakin; catch basin, catch drain; chatti,
- lota, mussuk, schooner [U.S.], spider, terrine, toby, urceus.
- plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer,
- pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics.
- shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch
- glass, thimble.
- closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin,
- bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of
- drawers, till, scrutoire|, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet,
- canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine.
- chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of
- rooms, apartment [U.S.], flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room,
- cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing
- room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box;
- boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room,
- salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room,
- bath room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.
- attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold,
- cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor,
- rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery,
- offices; storeroom &c. (depository) 636; lumber room; dairy, laundry, coach
- house; garage; hangar; outhouse, penthouse; lean-to.
- portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, lobby, court,
- hall, vestibule, corridor, passage; ante room, ante chamber; lounge;
- piazza [=veranda, U.S.].
- conservatory, greenhouse, bower, arbor, summerhouse, alcove, grotto,
- hermitage.
- lodging &c. (abode) 189; bed &c. (support) 215; carriage &c. (vehicle)
- 272.
- Adj. capsular; saccular, sacculated; recipient; ventricular, cystic,
- vascular, vesicular, cellular, camerated, locular, multilocular,
- polygastric; marsupial; siliquose, siliquous.
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-
- SECTION II. D I M E N S I O N S
-
- 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS
-
- #192. Size.-- N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness
- &c. adj.; greatness &c. (of quantity) 31; expanse &c. (space) 180;
- amplitude, mass; proportions.
- capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.
- turgidity &c. (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness &c.
- adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.
- hugeness &c. adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.
- giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua,
- monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan,
- elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass,
- swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton
- among the minnows" [Coriolanus].
- mountain, mound; heap &c. (assemblage) 72.
- largest portion &c. 50; full size, life size.
- V. be large &c. adj.; become large &c. (expand) 194.
- Adj. large, big; great &c. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky,
- voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious &c.
- 180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.
- corpulent, stout, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping,
- bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed;
- stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in
- condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.
- lubberly, hulky, unwieldly, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking,
- whopping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy &c. (swollen)
- 194.
- huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous,
- stupendous; monster, monstrous, jumbo, mammoth, gigantean; prodigious,
- colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan; infinite &c. 105.
- large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a
- pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.
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-
- #193. Littleness.-- N. littleness &c. adj.; smallness &c. (of
- quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension; parvitude, parvity; duodecimo; Elzevir
- edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness &c. 203.
- dwarf, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy,
- dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin;
- homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow.
- animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp,
- minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria;
- microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard
- seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.
- point; atom &c. (small quantity) 32; fragment &c. (small part) 51;
- powder &c. 330; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae &c.
- (unimportance) 643.
- micrography, micrometer, microscope; vernier; scale.
- V. be little &c. adj.; lie in a nutshell; become small &c. (decrease)
- 36, (contract) 195.
- Adj. little; small &c. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive,
- microscopic; microzeal; inconsiderable &c. (unimportant) 643; exiguous,
- puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, minature, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf,
- dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard,
- Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat;
- short &c. 201.
- impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible,
- inappreciable; infinitesimal, homoeopathic; atomic, corpuscular, molecular;
- rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial.
- weazen|!, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin &c. (narrow) 203; granular &c.
- (powdery) 330; shrunk &c. 195; brevipennate.
- Adv. in a small compass, in a nutshell; on a small scale.
-
- #194. Expansion.-- N. expansion; increase &c. 35 of size; enlargement,
- extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread,
- increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction;
- turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion|; obesity &c. (size) 192;
- hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling,
- tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation.
- dilatability, expansibility.
- germination, growth, upgrowth; accretion &c. 35; budding, gemmation.
- overgrowth, overdistension; hypertrophy, tympany.
- bulb &c. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.
- V. become larger &c. (large &c. 192); expand, widen, enlarge, extend,
- grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open
- order, dilate, stretch, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud,
- bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open,
- burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire,
- overrun.
- be larger than; surpass &c. (be superior) 33.
- render larger &c. (large &c. 192); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize,
- distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate,
- puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.
- Adj. expanded &c. v.; larger &c. (large &c. 192; swollen; expansive;
- wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat,
- turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied|;
- oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous;
- bulbous &c. (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big &c. 192;
- abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.
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- #195. Contraction.-- N. contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease
- &c. 36 of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking &c. v.;
- compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction,
- consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.
- condensation, compression, compactness; compendium &c. 596; squeezing
- &c. v.; strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics;
- contractility, compressibility; coarctation.
- inferiority in size.
- V. become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease &c. 36; grow less,
- dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh,
- wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay &c. (deteriorate) 659.
- be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to &c. (be inferior) 34.
- render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow,
- coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze,
- corrugate, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, stow; pinch, tighten,
- strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten &c. 201; circumscribe &c. 229;
- restrain &c. 751.
- pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, grind, chip, shave,
- shear.
- Adj. contracting &c. v.; astringent; shrunk, contracted &c. v.;
- strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning &c. v.; neap, compact.
- unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194); contractile; compressible; smaller
- &c. (small &c.193).
-
- #196. Distance.-- N. distance; space &c. 180; remoteness, farness,
- far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region;
- removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride.
- outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne
- plus ultra, antipodes; long range, giant's stride.
- dispersion &c.73.
- V. be distant &c. adj.; extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go
- to, get to, stretch away to; range.
- remain at a distance; keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of,
- stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of.
- Adj. distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of;
- stretching to &c. v.; yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine,
- transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane;
- hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached,
- unapproachable; incontiguous.
- Adv. far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a
- great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of
- the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer,
- over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away [Gay]; from
- pole to pole &c. (over great space) 180; to the uttermost parts, to the
- ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out
- of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.
- apart, asunder; wide apart, wide asunder; longo intervallo; at arm's
- length.
- Phr. "distance lends enchantment" [Campbell].
-
- #197. Nearness.-- N. nearness &c. adj.; proximity, propinquity;
- vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity &c. 199.
- short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters,
- stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.
- purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs,
- confines, banlieue, borderland; whereabouts.
- bystander; neighbor, borderer.
- approach &c. 286; convergence 7c. 290; perihelion.
- V. be near &c. adj.; adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge
- upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug;
- huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn.
- bring near, draw near &c. 286; converge &c. 290; crowd &c. 72; place
- side by side &c. adv.
- Adj. near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring;
- bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at
- hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.
- Adv. near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at
- the point of; next door to; within reach, within call,
- within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far
- from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts
- of; in the environs &c. n.; at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow,
- at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under
- one's nose; within a stone's throw &c. n.; in sight of, in presence of; at
- close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by
- side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition &c. (touching) 199; yardarm to yardarm,
- at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon,
- verging to; in the way.
- about; here abouts, there abouts; roughly, in round numbers;
- approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh.
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- #198. Interval.-- N. interval, interspace; separation &c. 44; break,
- gap, opening; hole &c. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption,
- interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek,
- cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent,
- gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.
- gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet,
- frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow &c. 259; abra; barranca, barranco; clove
- [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus
- valde deflendus; parenthesis &c. (interjacence) 228; void 7c. (absence)
- 187; incompleteness &c. 53.
- V. gape &c. (open) 260.
- Adj. with an interval, far between; breachy, rimose, rimulose.
- Adv. at intervals &c. (discontinuously) 70; longo intervallo.
-
- #199. Contiguity.-- N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition,
- abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre,
- rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion &c. 46; touching &c.
- v. (see touch 379).
- borderland; frontier &c. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.
- V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze,
- touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c. 46.
- Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; conterminous, end
- to end, osculatory; pertingent|; tangential.
- hand to hand; close to &c. (near) 197; with no interal &c. 198.
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-
- #200. Length.-- N. length, longitude, span; mileage.
- line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
- lengthening &c. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension,
- tensure; extension.
- [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard,
- ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain; arpent, handbreadth,
- jornada [U.S.], kos, vara.
- pedometer, perambulator; scale &c. (measurement) 466.
- V. be long &c. adj.; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch
- to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along."
- render long &c. adj.; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong,
- produce, protract; let out, draw out, spinout; drawl.
- enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
- Adj. long, longsome; lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched; lengthened &c.
- v.; sesquipedalian &c. (words) 577; interminable, no end of; macrocolous.
- linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
- as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened &c.
- (shorten &c. 201).
- Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along; tandem; in
- a line &c. (continuously) 69; in perspective.
- from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown
- of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.
-
- #201. Shortness.-- N. shortness &c. adj.; brevity; littleness &c. 193;
- a span.
- shortening &c. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, concision,
- retrenchment, curtailment, decuration|; reduction &c. (contraction) 195;
- epitome &c. (compendium) 596.
- elision, ellipsis; coonciseness &c. (in style) 572.
- abridger, epitomist, epitomizer.
- V. be short &c. adj.; render short &c. adj.; shorten, curtail,
- abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c. (contract) 195;
- epitomize &c. 596.
- retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut
- down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop;
- snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; [in drawing]
- foreshorten.
- Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn,
- stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate; retrousse;
- stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little &c. 193; curtailed of its fair
- proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c. 572; summary.
- Adv. shortly &c. adj.; in short &c. (concisely) 572.
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- #202. Breadth, Thickness.-- N. breadth, width, latitude, amplitude;
- diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent &c. (space) 180.
- thickness, crassitude; corpulence &c. (size) 192; dilation &c.
- (expansion) 194.
- V. be broad &c. adj.; become broad, render broad &c. adj.; expand &c.
- 194; thicken, widen, calibrate.
- Adj. broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread,
- outstretched; "wide as a church-door" [Romeo and Juliet]; latifoliate,
- latifolous.
- thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.
-
- #203. Narrowness. Thinness.-- N. narrowness &c. adj.; closeness,
- exility; exiguity 7c. (little) 193.
- line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.
- thinness &c. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor|.
- shaving, slip &c. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow,
- anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.
- middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass;
- ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine &c. 198.
- narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering; contraction &c. 195.
- V. be narrow &c. adj.; narrow, taper, contract &c. 195; render narrow
- &c. adj.
- Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c. (filament)
- 205; finespun; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate,
- incapacious; contracted &c. 195; unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194); slender
- as a thread.
- [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt,
- macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny [U.S.] slinky; starved,
- starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer];
- thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced;
- lantern-jawed.
- attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid|, barebone, rawboned.
-
- #204. Layer.-- N. layer, stratum, course, bed, zone, substratum,
- floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escrapment; table, tablet; dess;
- flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.
- plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel;
- coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving,
- integument &c. (covering) 223; eschar.
- stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.
- V. slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover
- &c. 223.
- Adj. lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform; laminated, laminiferous;
- micaceous; schistose, schistous; scaly, filmy, membranous, flaky,
- squamous; foliated, foliaceous; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid;
- spathic, spathose.
-
- #205. Filament.-- N. filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein;
- hair, capillament, cilium, tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula,
- venule.
- wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist,
- whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.
- strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband,
- roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.
- beard &c. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.
- Adj. filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform; fibrous,
- fibrillous; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform;
- funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform; flagelliform; hairy &c. (rough) 256;
- taeniate, taeniform, taenioid; venose, venous.
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- #206. Height. -- N. height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch;
- loftiness &c. adj.; sublimity.
- tallness &c. adj.; stature, procerity; prominence &c. 250.
- colussus &c. (size) 192; giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.
- mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle, fell, knap; cape;
- headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground,
- vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights &c.
- (summit), 210; knob, loma, pena [U.S.], picacho, tump; knoll, hummock,
- hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike,
- clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
- tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret,
- campanile, turret, dome, cupola.
- pole, pikstaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast.
- ceiling &c. (covering) 223.
- high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.
- altimetry &c. (angel) 244; batophobia.
- V. be high &c. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover; cap, culminate;
- overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch,
- surmount; cover &c. 223; overtop &c. (be superior) 33; stand on tiptoe.
- become high &c. adj.; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise &c.
- (ascend) 305.
- render high &c. adj.; heighten &c. (elevate) 307.
- Adj. high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic &c. (big)
- 192; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated
- &c. 307; upper; highest &c. (topmost) 210; high reaching, insessorial,
- perching.
- upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine,
- subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial.
- overhanging &c. v. ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent,
- supernatant, superimposed; prominent &c. c. 250.
- tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky &c.
- (thin) 203.
- Adv. on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind;
- upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the
- shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.
- over, upwards; from top to bottom &c. (completely) 52.
- Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.
-
- #207. Lowness. -- N. lowness &c. adj.; debasement, depression,
- prostration &c. (horizontal) 213; depression &c. (concave) 252.
- molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee;
- cellar; hold; feet, heels.
- low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.
- V. be low &c. adj.; lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch,
- wallow, grovel; lower &c. (depress) 308.
- Adj. low, neap, debased; eether most; flat, level with the ground;
- lying low &c. v.; crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate &c. (horizontal)
- 213.
- Adv. under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot
- of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb;
- below par.
-
- #208. Depth. -- N. depth; deepness &c. adj.; profundity, depression
- &c. (concavity) 252.
- hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf &c. 198; bowels of the earth,
- botttomless pit, hell.
- soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound,
- probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
- V. be deep &c. adj.; render deep &c. adj.; deepen.
- plunge &c. 310; sound, heave th elead, take soundings; dig &c.
- (excavate) 252.
- Adj. deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, burried; submerged &c. 310;
- subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene; underground.
- bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal;
- deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching,
- yawning.
- knee deep, ankel deep.
- Adv. beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears.
-
- #209. Shallowness. -- N. shallowness &c. adj.; shoals; mere scratch.
- Adj. shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep;
- just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly.
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- #210. Summit. -- N. summit, summity|; top, vertex, apex, zenith,
- pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height,
- pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point;
- turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole.
- tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, peak, nib; end &c. 67;
- crown, brow; head, nob, noddle, pate; capsheaf.
- high places, heights.
- topgallant mast, sky scraper; quarter deck, hurricane deck.
- architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital,
- epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature; tympanum; ceiling &c. (covering)
- 223.
- attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story.
- V. culminate, crown, top; overtop &c. (be superior to) 33.
- Adj. highest &c. (high &c. 206); top; top most, upper most; tiptop;
- culminating &c. v.; meridian, meridional; capital, head, polar, supreme,
- supernal, topgallant.
- Adv. atop, at the top of the tree.
- Phr. en flute; fleur deau.
-
- #211. Base. -- N. base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard,
- mopboard; bedrock, hardpan [U.S.]; foundation &c. (support) 215;
- substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag,
- carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge.
- bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard.
- Adj. bottom, undermost, nethermost; fundamental; founded on, based on,
- grounded on, built on.
-
- #212. Verticality. -- N. verticality; erectness &c. adj.;
- perpendicularity &c. 216a; right angle, normal; azimuth circle.
- wall, precipice, cliff.
- elevation, erection; square, plumb line, plummet.
- V. be verticle &c. adj.; stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand
- upright; stick up, cock up.
- render verticle &c. adj.; set up, stick up, raise up, cock up; erect,
- rear, raise on its legs.
- Adj. verticle, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, nornal, straight,
- bolt, upright; rampant; standing up &c. v.; rectangular, orthogonal &c.
- 216a.
- Adv. vertically &c. adj.; up, on end; up on end, right on end; a
- plomb, endwise; one one's legs; at right angles.
-
- #213. Horizontality. -- N. horizontality; flatness; level, plane;
- stratum &c. 204; dead level, dead flat; level plane.
- recumbency, lying down &c. v.; reclination, decumbence; decumbency,
- discumbency|; proneness &c. adj.; accubation, supination, resupination,
- prostration; azimuth.
- plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground,
- croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table
- land, plateau, ledge.
- V. be horizontal &c. adj.; lie, recline, couch; lie down, lie flat,
- lie prostrate; sprawl, loll, sit down.
- render horizontal &c. adj.; lay down, lay out; level, flatten;
- prostrate, knock down, floor, fell.
- Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane; flat &c. 251; flat as a billiard
- tabble, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond;
- smooth, smooth as glass.
- recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent; lying &c. v.; prone,
- supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant.
- Adv. horizontally &c. adj.; on one's back, on all fours, on its beam
- ends.
-
- #214. Pendency. -- N. pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging &c.
- v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail,
- pendulum; hangnail
- peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook;;
- fastening &c. 45; spar, horse.
- V. be pendent &c. adj.; hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle,
- flap, trail, flow; beetle.
- suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.
- Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting
- over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing.
- having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate, tailed, caudate.
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- #215. Support. -- N. support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra
- firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib; point d'appui, <gr/pou
- sto/gr>, purchase footing, hold, locus standi; landing place, landing
- stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum,
- riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c. (basement) 211.
- supporter; aid &c. 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment|; cue rest,
- jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup,
- stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger;
- ratlings.
- staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle; bourdon, cowlstaff,
- lathi, mahlstick.
- post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle;
- pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion,
- abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone.
- frame, framework; scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, rirder, lintel,
- joist, travis, trave, corner stone, summer, transom; rung, round, step,
- sill; angle rafter, hip rafter; cantilever, modillion;; crown post, king
- post; vertebra.
- columella, backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch, mainstay.
- trunnion, pivot, rowlock; peg &c. (pendency) 214; tiebeam &c.
- (fastening) 45; thole pin.
- board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack;
- mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange,
- corbel ; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse,
- hatrack; retable; teapoy.
- seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa,
- settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch,
- fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool,
- horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba
- kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.
- bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed,
- cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip,
- palang; bedding, bichona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug,
- cushion.
- footstool, hassock; tabouret; tripod.
- Atlas, Persides, Atlantes, Caryatides, Hercules.
- V. be supported &c.; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on,
- rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on &c.;
- have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle.
- support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up,
- bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under
- set; riprap; bandage &c. 43.
- give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend
- support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply
- foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed.
- maintain, keep on foot; aid &c. 707.
- Adj. supporting, supported &c. v.; fundamental; dorsigerous.
- Adv. astride on, straddle.
-
- #216. Parallelism. -- N. {ant. 216a} parallelism; coextension;
- equidistance.
- Adj. parallel; coextensive; equidistant.
- Adv. alongside &c. (laterally) 236.
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- #217. Obliquity. -- N. obliquity, inclination, slope, slant,
- crookedness &c. adj.; slopeness; leaning &c. v.; bevel, tilt; bias, list,
- twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion &c. 243; bend &c. (curve) 245; tower
- of Pisa.
- acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank,
- declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity|; gentle slope, rapid slope, easy
- ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe; facilis
- descensus cerni.
- steepness &c. adj.; cliff, precipice &c. (vertical) 212; escarpment,
- scarp.
- [measure of inclination] clinometer; sine, cosine, cotangent, angle,
- hypothenuse.
- diagonal, zigzag.
- V. be oblique &c. adj.; slope, slant, lean, incline, shelve, stoop,
- decline, descend, bend, keel, careen, sag, swag, seel|, slouch, cant,
- sidle.
- render oblique &c. adj.; sway, bias; slope, slant; incline, bend,
- crook; cant, tilt; distort &c. 243.
- Adj. oblique, inclined; sloping &c. v.; tilted &c. v.; recumbent,
- clinal, skew, askew, slant, aslant, plagihedral, indirect, wry, awry, ajee,
- crooked; knock-kneed &c. (distorted) 243; bevel, out of the perpendicular;
- aslope; asquint, backhanded; recubant.
- uphill, rising, ascending, acclivous; downhill, falling, descending;
- declining, declivous, devex|, anticlinal; steep, abrupt, precipitous,
- breakneck.
- diagonal; transverse, transversal; athwart, antiparallel; curved &c.
- 245.
- Adv. obliquely &c. adj.; on one side, all on one side; askew, askant,
- askance, edgewise, at an angle; sidelong, sideways; slopewise, slantwise;
- by a side wind.
-
- #218. Inversion. -- N. inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion,
- retroversion, introversion; contraposition &c. 237; contrariety &c. 14;
- reversal; turn of the tide.
- overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset; culbute; revulsion;
- pirouette.
- transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton,
- anastrophe, <gr/hysteron proteron/gr>, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis,
- parenthesis; metathesis; palindrome.
- pronation and supination.
- V. be inverted &c.; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about,
- go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel
- to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize,
- turn turtle.
- invert, subvert, retrovert, introvert; reverse; up turn, over turn, up
- set, over set; turn topsy turvy &c. adj.; culbuter; transpose, put the cart
- before the horse, turn the tables.
- Adj. inverted &c. v.; wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out,
- upside down; bottop upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-
- turvy, sens dessus dessous.
- inverse; reverse &c. (contrary) 14; opposite &c. 237.
- top heavy.
- Adv. inversely &c. adj.; hirdy-girdy; heels over head, head over
- heels.
-
- #219. Crossing. -- N. crossing &c. v.; intersection, interdigitation;
- decussation, transversion; convolution &c. 248; level crossing.
- reticulation, network;; inosculation, anastomosis, intertertexture,
- mortise.
- net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat,
- matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron,
- tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes; rivulation.
- cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot; entangle &c.
- (disorder) 59.
- [woven fabrics] cloth, linen, muslin, cambric &c.
- V. cross, decussate; intersect, interlace, intertwine, intertwist,
- interweave, interdigitate, interlink.
- twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose,
- inosculate, dovetail, splice, link.
- mat, plait, plat, braid, felt, twill; tangle, entangle, ravel; net,
- knot; dishevel, raddle.
- Adj. crossing &c. v.; crossed, matted &c, v. transverse.
- cross, cruciform, crucial; retiform, reticular, reticulated; areolar,
- cancellated, grated, barred, streaked; textile; crossbarred, cruciate,
- palmiped, secant; webfooted.
- Adv. cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade [U.S.]; crosswise.
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- 1. General
-
- #220. Exteriority. -- N. exteriority; outside, exterior; surface,
- superficies; skin &c. (covering) 223; superstratum; disk, disc; face,
- facet; extrados.
- excentricity; eccentricity; circumjacence &c. 227.
- V. be exterior &c. adj.; lie around &c. 227.
- place exteriorly, place outwardly, place outside; put out, turn out.
- Adj. exterior, external; outer most; outward, outlying, outside,
- outdoor; round about &c. 227; extramural; extralimitary, extramundane.
- superficial, skin-deep; frontal, discoid.
- extraregarding; excentric, eccentric; outstanding; extrinsic &c. 6;
- ecdemic, exomorphic.
- Adv. externally &c. adj.; out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out
- of doors; extra muros.
- in the open air; sub Jove, sub jio; a ala belle etoile, al fresco.
-
- #221. Interiority. -- N. interiority; inside, interior; interspace,
- subsoil, substratum; intrados.
- contents &c. 190; substance, pith, marrow; backbone &c. (center) 222;
- heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly,
- intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap; penetralia, recesses, innermost
- recesses; cave &c. (concavity) 252.
- V. be inside &c. adj.; within &c. adv.
- place within, keep within; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; intern;
- imbed &c. (insert) 300.
- Adj. interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding;
- inmost, innermost; deep seated; intesting, intestinal; inland;
- subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic; interstitial &c.
- (interjacent) 228; inwrought &c. (intrinsic) 5; inclosed &c. v.
- home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular; endemic.
- Adv. internally &c. adj.; inwards, within, in, inly; here in, there
- in, where in; ab intra, withinside; in doors, within doors; at home, in the
- bosom of one's family.
-
- #222. Centrality. -- N. centrality, centricalness, center; middle &c.
- 68; focus &c. 74.
- core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave,
- navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column;
- hotbed; concentratin &c. (convergence) 290; centralization; symmetry.
- center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of
- oscillation, center of buoyancy &c.; metacenter.
- V. be central &c. adj.; converge &c. 290.
- render central, centralize, concentrate; bring to a focus.
- Adj. central, centrical; middle &c. 68; azygous, axial, focal,
- umbilical, cocentric; middlemost; rachidian; spinal, vertebral.
- Adv. middle; midst; centrally &c. adj.
-
- 223. Covering. -- N. covering, cover; baldachin, baldachino,
- baldaquin; canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella,
- parasol, sunshade; veil (shade) 424; shield &c. (defense) 717.
- roof, ceiling, thatch, tile; pantile, pentile; tiling, slates,
- slating, leads; barrack [U.S.], plafond, planchment [U.S.], tiling, shed
- &c. (abode) 189.
- top, lid, covercle|, door, operculum; bulkhead [U.S.].
- bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall.
- coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget;
- housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum;
- saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah [U.S.], apishamore [U.S.].
- integument , tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather,
- shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe [U.S.];
- cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis.
- clothing &c. 225; mask &c. (concealment) 530.
- peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell, glume.
- capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca; elytron;
- elytrum; involucrum; wrapping, wrapper; envelope, vesicle; corn husk, corn
- shuck [U.S.]; dermatology, conchology; testaceology.
- veneer, facing; engobe; pavement; scale &c. (layer) 204; coating,
- paint; varnish &c. (resin) 356a; anointing &c. v.; inunction; incrustation,
- superposition, obduction|; ground, enamel, whitewash, plaster, stucco,
- compo; cerement; ointment &c. (grease) 356.
- V. cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap &c. 225;
- incase; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind; bulkhead, bulkhead
- in; clapboard [U.S.].
- coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stuccco, dab, plaster, tar; wash;
- besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker,
- enamel, whitewash; parget; lay it on thick.
- overlie, overarch; endome; conceal &c. 528.
- Adj. covering &c. v.; cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular,
- tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous; covered &c. v.; imbricated,
- loricated, armor plated, ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate,
- dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform; vaginate.
-
- #224. Lining. -- N. lining, inner coating; coating &c. (covering) 223;
- stalactite, stalagamite.
- filling, stuffing, wadding, padding.
- wainscot, parietes, wall.
- V. line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill.
- Adj. lined &c. v..
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- #225. Investment. -- N. investment; covering &c. 223; dress, clothing,
- raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim;
- habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament|, apparel,
- wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things.
- array; tailoring, millinery; finery &c. (ornament) 847; full dress &c.
- (show) 882; garniture; theatrical properties.
- outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals [Am.
- Hist.]; canonicals &c. 999; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment,
- caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery;
- masquerade.
- dishabille, morning dress, neglige, dressing gown, undress; kimono;
- lungi; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds;
- duds; slippers.
- robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock
- frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat, sack coat, tuxedo coat,
- frock coat, dress coat, tail coat.
- cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil;
- cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke|, chlamys,
- mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure;
- houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh,
- waterproof; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal,
- pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma
- jacket, vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine; stays,
- corsage, corset, corselet, bodice; stomacher; skirt, petticoat,
- farthingale, kilt, jupe, crinoline, bustle, panier, apron, pinafore;
- bloomer, bloomers; chaqueta, songtag, tablier.
- trousers, trowsers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls,
- smalls, small clothes; pants, shintiyan; shorts; tights, drawers;
- knickerbockers; philibeg, fillibeg.
- headdress, headgear; chaepau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh;
- sombrero, jam. tam-o'-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree;
- cap, hat, beaver, castor, bonnet, tile, ideawake, billycock, wimple;
- nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood;
- head, coiffure; crown &c. (circle) 247; chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke,
- periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap,
- bearskin; helmet &c. 717; mask, domino.
- body clothes; linen; hickory shirt [U.S.]; shirt, sark, smock, shift,
- chemise; night gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit; jersey;
- underclothing under waistcoat.
- neckerchief, neckcloth; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock,
- handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; girdle &c. (circle) 247; cummerbund,
- rumal, rabat.
- shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, goloshes, patten, clog;
- high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot;
- Balmoral; artics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras,
- chivarros; gums [U.S.], larrigan [N. Am.], rubbers, showshoe, stogy,
- veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes,
- moccosin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking,
- hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery.
- glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve.
- swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; pocket handerchief; ice wool;
- taffeta.
- clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker,
- habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; crospin; friseur; cordwainer,
- cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer.
- V. invest; cover &c. 223; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap, enwrap;
- wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe,
- swaddle, roll up in, circumbest.
- vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire,
- apparel, accounter, rig, fit out; deck &c. (ornament) 847; perk, equip,
- harness, caparison.
- wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle.
- Adj. invested &c. v.; habited; dighted; barbed, barded; clad, costume,
- shod, chausse; en grande tenue &c. (show) 882.
- sartorial.
- Phr. "the soul of this man is his clothes" [All's Well].
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- #226. Divestment. -- N. divestment; taking off &c. v..
- nudity; bareness &c. adj.; undress; dishabille &c. 225; the
- altogether; nudation, denudation; decortication, depilation, excoriation,
- desquamation; molting; exfoliation; trichosis.
- V. divest; uncover &c. (cover &c. 223); denude, bare, strip;
- disfurnish; undress, disrobe &c. (dress, enrobe &c. 225); uncoif;
- dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate,
- excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast
- the skin.
- Adj. divested &c. v.; bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped;
- exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless.
- in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff,
- in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked; bald
- as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot;
- bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless.
-
- #227. Circumjacence. -- N. circumjacence, circumambience; environment,
- encompassment; atmosphere, medium, surroundings.
- outpost; border &c. (edge) 231; girdle &c. (circumference) 230;
- outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs,
- entourage, banlieue; neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity.
- V. lie around &c. adv.; surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ,
- inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird,
- engird; skirt, twine round; hem in &c. (circumscribe) 229.
- Adj. circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent; ambient; surrounding
- &c. v.; circumferential, suburban.
- Adv. around, about; without; on every side; on all sides; right and
- left, all round, round about.
-
- #228. Interjacence. -- N. interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience,
- interlocation, interdigitation, interpenetration; permeation.
- interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion,
- intercalation; embolism.
- intervention, interference, interposition; intrusion, obtrusion;
- insinuation; insertion &c. 300; dovetailing; infiltration.
- intermedium, intermediary; go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper;
- parenthesis, episode, flyleaf.
- partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff; dissepiment; party, wall,
- panel; halfway house.
- V. lie between, come between, get between; intervene, slide in,
- interpenetrate, permeate.
- put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in,
- worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject,
- intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave,
- interlard, interdigitate; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate,
- smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain.
- interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have
- a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in &c.
- (insert) 300.
- Adj. interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening &c. v.,
- intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial; embolismal.
- parenthetical, episodic; mediterranean; intrusive; embosomed; merged.
- Adv. between, betwixt; twixt; among, amongst; amid, amidst; mid,
- midst; in the thick of; betwixt and between; sandwich-wise; parenthically,
- obiter dictum.
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- #229. Circumscription. -- N. circumscription, limitation, inclosure;
- confinement &c. (restraint) 751; circumvallation; encintcture; envelope &c.
- 232.
- container (receptacle) 191.
- V. circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround &c. 227;
- compass about; imprison &c. (restrain) 751; hedge in, wall in, rail in;
- fence round, hedge round; picket; corral.
- enfold, bury, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up &c. (invest)
- 225; embay, embosom.
- Adj. circumscribed &c. v.; begirt, lapt; buried in, immersed in;
- embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned &c.
- 751; landlocked, in a ring fence.
-
- #230. Outline. -- N. outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery,
- ambit, circuit, lines tournure, contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast
- line.
- zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre, cingle, clasp,
- girt; cordon &c. (inclosure) 232; circlet, &c. 247..
-
- #231. Edge. -- N. edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border,
- confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip,
- muzzle.
- threshold, door, porch; portal &c. (opening) 260; coast, shore.
- frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem,
- selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance.
- Adj. border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated, marginated.
-
- #232. Inclosure. -- N. inclosure, envelope; case &c. (receptacle) 191;
- wrapper; girdle &c. 230.
- pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, sheep fold; paddock, pound; corral;
- yard; net, seine net.
- wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence &c. (defense) 717; pale,
- paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling,
- circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence.
- barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle [U.S.]; door, hatch,
- cordon; prison &c. 752.
- dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat.
- V. inclose, circumscribe &c. 229.
-
- #233. Limit. -- N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term,
- bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale; termination, terminus; stint, frontier,
- precinct, marches; backwoods.
- boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, line of circumvallation;
- pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra; sluice,
- floodgate.
- Adj. definite; conterminate|, conterminable; terminal, frontier;
- bordering.
- Adv. thus far, thus far and no further.
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-
- #234. Front. -- N. front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk,
- disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece; anteriority;
- obverse [of a medal or coin].
- fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first
- line; scout.
- brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut*; rostrum,
- beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib.
- pioneer &c. (precursor) 64; metoposcopy.
- V. be in front, stand in front &c. adj.; front, face, confront; bend
- forwards; come to the front, come to the fore.
- Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal.
- Adv. before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead;
- forehead, foremost; in the foreground, in the lee of; before one's face,
- before one's eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis; front a front.
- Phr. formosa muta commendatio est [Syrus]; frons est animi janua
- [Cicero]; "Human face divine" [Milton]; imago animi vultus est indices
- oculi [Cicero]; "sea of upturned faces" [Scott].
-
- #235. Rear. -- N. rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard;
- background, interland.
- occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors,
- backside scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind
- quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone.
- stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper.
- wake; train &c. (sequence) 281.
- reverse; other side of the shield.
- V. be behind &c. adv.; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
- Adj. back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern,
- posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal.
- Adv. behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the
- heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back.
- after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward.
- Phr. ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.
-
- #236. Laterality. -- N. laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand;
- cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip;
- beam.
- gable, gable end; broadside; lee side.
- points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation.
- V. be on one side &c. adv.; flant, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate.
- Adj. lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting;
- flanked; sideling.
- many sided; multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral.
- Eastern; orient, oriental; Levantine; Western, occidental, Hesperian.
- Adv. sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast,
- alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jown &c.
- (near) 197; to windward, to leeward; laterally &c. adj.; right and left; on
- her beam ends.
- Phr. "his cheek the may of days outworn" [Shakespeare].
- #237. Contraposition. -- N. contraposition, opposition; polarity;
- inversion &c. 218; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes;
- opposite poles, North and South.
- antonym, opposit (contrariety) 14.
- V. be opposite &c. adj.; subtend.
- Adj. opposite; reverse, inverse; converse, antipodal, subcontrary;
- fronting, facing, diametrically opposite.
- Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic; Southern, Austral, antarctic.
- Adv. over, over the way, over against; against; face to face, vis-a-
- vis; as poles asunder.
-
- #238. Dextrality. -- N. dextrality; right, right hand; dexter,
- offside, starboard.
- Adj. dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal, dextrorse;
- ambidextral.
- Adv. dextrad, dextrally.
-
- #239. Sinistrality. -- N. sinistrality; left, left hand; sinister,
- nearside, larboard, port.
- Adj. left-handed; sinister; sinistral, sinistrorsal, sinistrorse,
- sinistrous;
- Adv. sinistrally, sinistrously.
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- Section III. FORM
- 1. General Form
-
- #240. Form. -- N. form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration;
- make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's
- jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour &c. (outline) 230; structure
- &c. 329; plasmature.
- feature, lineament, turn; phase &c. (aspect) 448; posture, attitude,
- pose.
- [Science of form] morphism.
- [Similarity of form] isomorphism.
- forming &c. v.; formation, figuration, efformation; sculpture;
- plasmation.
- V. form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew,
- cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into
- shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture;
- cast, stamp; build &c. (construct) 161.
- Adj. formed &c. v.
- [Receiving form] plastic, fictile; formative.
- [Give form] plasmic.
- [Similar in form] isomorphous.
-
- #241. [Absence of form.] Amorphism. -- N. amorphism, informity;
- unlicked cub; rudis indigestaque moles; disorder &c. 59; deformity &c. 243.
- disfigurement, defacement; mutilation; deforming.
- V. [Destroy form] deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate;
- derange &c. 61; blemish, mar.
- Adj. shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned,
- shapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.
-
- #242. [Regularity of form.] Symmetry. -- N. symmetry, shapeliness,
- finish; beauty &c. 845; proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism;
- bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry; centrality
- &c. 222.
- arborescence, branching, ramification; arbor vitae.
- Adj. symmetrical, shapeley, well set, finished; beautiful &c. 845;
- classic, chaste, severe.
- regular, uniform, balanced; equal &c. 27; parallel, coextensive.
- arborescent, arboriform; dendriform, dendroid; branching; ramous,
- ramose; filiciform, filicoid; subarborescent; papilionaceous.
-
-
- #243. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion. -- N. distortion, detortion,
- contortion; twist, crookedness &c. (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity;
- malformation, malconformation; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion, want of
- symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness &c. 846; talipes; teratology.
- V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform,
- misshape.
- Adj. distorted &c. v.; out of shape, irregular, unsymmetric, awry,
- wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed;
- harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-
- made; grotesque, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch
- backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow
- kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub
- nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy &c. (short) 201; gaunt
- &c. (thin) 203; bloated &c. 194; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.
- Adv. all manner of ways.
- Phr. crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].
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- 2. Special Form
-
- #244. Angularity. -- N. angularity, angularness; aduncity; angle,
- cusp, bend; fold &c. 258; notch &c. 257; fork, bifurcation.
- elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke,
- scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo.
- corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign.
- right angle &c. (perpendicular) 216a, 212; obliquity &c. 217; angle
- of 45x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle,
- spherical angle.
- angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular
- velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry; clinometer, graphometer,
- goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.
- triangle, trigon, wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb,
- rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon,
- pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon.
- Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron,
- octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid;
- parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
- V. bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.
- Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged,
- serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag;
- furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinked, akimbo, kimbo,
- geniculated; oblique &c. 217.
- fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate, multangular, oxygonal;
- triangular, trigonal, trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare;
- rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal &c. n.; cubical, rhomboidal,
- pyramidal.
-
- #245. Curvature. -- N. curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature,
- incurvity|; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion; conflexure|; crook, hook,
- bought, bending; deflexion, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity|,
- turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity,
- recurvation; sinuosity &c. 248.
- carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule,
- horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; catenary, festoon;
- conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay
- window, bow window.
- V. be curved &c. adj.; sweep, swag, sag; deviate &c. 279; turn;
- reenter.
- render curved &c. &c. adj.; bend, curve, incurvate; deflect, inflect;
- crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate; bow, curl,
- recurve, frizzle.
- Adj. curved &c. v.; curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex|,
- devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed &c. v.; vaulted, hooked;
- falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; luniform, lunular;
- semilunar, conchoidal; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell
- shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped,
- shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped;
- reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged &c. (distored) 243; oblique &c.
- 217; circular &c. 247.
- aduncated, arclike, arcuate, beaked; bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute;
- clypeate, clypeiform; cymbiform, embowed, galeiform; hamate, hamiform,
- hamous; hooked; linguiform, lingulate; lobiform, lunate, navicular,
- peltate, remiform, rhamphoid; rostrate, rostiferous, rostroid; scutate,
- scaphoid, uncate; unguiculate, unguiform.
-
- #246. Straightness. -- N. straightness, rectilinearity, directness;
- inflexibility &c. (stiffness) 323; straight line, right line, direct line;
- short cut.
- V. be straight &c. adj.; have no turning; not incline to either side,
- not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either
- side; go straight; steer for &c. (directions) 278.
- render straight, straighten, rectify; set straight, put straight;
- unbend, unfold, uncurl &c. 248, unravel &c. 219, unwrap.
- Adj. straight; rectilinear, rectilineal; direct, even, right, true, in
- a line; unbent, virgate &c. v.; undeviating, unturned, undistorted,
- unswerving; straight as an arrow &c. (direct) 278; inflexible &c. 323.
-
- #247. [Simple circularity.] Circularity. -- N. circularity, roundness;
- rotundity &c. 249.
- circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet,
- bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle,
- zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash,
- girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown,
- corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo.
- ellipse, oval, ovule; ellipsoid, cycloid; epicycloid, epicycle;
- semicircle; quadrant, sextant, sector.
- V. make round &c. adj.; round.
- go round; encircle &c. 227; describe a circle &c. 311.
- Adj. round, rounded, curcular, annular, orbicular; oval, ovate;
- elliptic, elliptical; egg-shaped; pear-shaped &c. 245; cycloidal &c. n.;
- spherical &c. 249.
- Phr. "I watched the little circles die" [Tennyson].
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- #248. [Complex curvature.] Convolution. -- N. winding &c. v.;
- convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity,
- anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus,
- twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation;
- reticulation &c. (crossing) 219; rivulation; roughness &c. 256.
- coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute,
- rundle; tendril; scollop, scallop, escalop; kink; ammonite, snakestone.
- serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.
- V. be convoluted &c. adj.;wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave,
- undulate, meander; inosculate; entwine, intwine; twist, coil, roll;
- wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crapek, indent, scollop,
- scallop, wring, intort; contort; wreathe &c. (cross) 219.
- Adj. convoluted; winding, twisted &c. v.; tortile, tortive|; wavy;
- undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent,
- anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous,
- anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal;
- spiriferous, spiroid;
- involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth, labyrinthic,
- labyrinthian, labyrinthine; peristaltic; daedalian; kinky.
- wreathy, frizzly, crepe, buckled; raveled &c. (in disorder) 59.
- spiral, coiled, helical; cocheleate, cochelous; screw-shaped;
- turbinated, turbiniform.
- Adv. in and out, round and round.
-
- #249.. Rotundity. -- N. rotundity; roundness &c. adj.; cylindricity;
- sphericity, spheroidity; globosity.
- cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller;
- rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle.
- cone, conoid; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape.
- sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong
- spheroid; oblate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet,
- pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot
- (convolution) 248.
- V. render spherical &c.adj.; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a
- ball; give rotundity &c. n.; round.
- Adj. rotund; round &c. (circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical,
- cylindroid; columnar, lumbriciform; conic, conical; spherical, spheroidal;
- globular, globated, globous, globose; egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped;
- ovoid, ofiform; gibbous; rixiform; campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform;
- fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous; tres atque rotundus;
- round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard
- ball, round as a cannon ball.
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- 3. Superficial Form
-
- #250. Convexity. -- N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling,
- gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot [N. Am.],
- thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.]. swell.
- intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump,
- hunch, bunch.
- tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule,
- nodosity, tongue, dorsum, boss, embossment, bump, clump; sugar loaf &c.
- (sharpness) 253; bow; mamelon; hub, hubble [U.S.]; molar.
- pimple; wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth,
- sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity,
- exostosis, bleb, blister, blain; boil &c. (disease) 655; airbubble, blob,
- papule, verruca.
- papilla, nipple, teat, pap, breast, dug, mammilla; proboscis, nose,
- neb, beak, snout, nozzle; belly, corporation; withers, back, shoulder, lip,
- flange.
- peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.
- cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster.
- relief, relievo, cameo; bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo; low
- relief, bas relief, high relief.
- hill &c. (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland;
- point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze, ness.
- V. be prominent &c. adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge|,
- bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start
- up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle.
- render prominent &c. adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase.
- Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c. v.; bossed,
- bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated, claviform; hummocky, moutonne,
- mammiliform; papulous, papilose; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold;
- bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous; cornute, odontoid; lentiform,
- lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby,
- papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose,
- verrucose.
- salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated &c, (expanded) 194.
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- #251. Flatness. -- N. flatness &c. adj.; smoothness &c. 255.
- plane; level &c. 213; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.
- V. render flat, flatten; level &c. 213.
- Adj. flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform, discoid; level &c.
- (horizontal) 213; flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder,
- flat as a board, flat as my hand.
-
- #252. Concavity. -- N. concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness;
- indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus,
- alveolus, lacuna; excavation; trough &c. (furrow) 259; honeycomb.
- cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell &c. (receptacle) 191; socket.
- valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade,
- grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully
- &c. 198; arch &c. (curve) 245; bay &c. (of the sea) 343.
- excavator, sapper, miner.
- V. be concave &c. adj.; retire, cave in.
- render concave &c. adj.; depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge,
- dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel,
- stave in.
- Adj. depressed &c. v.; alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing;
- favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, stove
- in; retiring; retreating; cavernous; porous &c. (with holes) 260;
- infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform; funnel shaped, bell shaped;
- campaniform, capsular; vaulted, arched.
-
- #253. Sharpness. -- N. sharpness &c. adj.; acuity, acumination;
- spinosity.
- point, spike, spine, spiculum, needle, pin; prick, prickle; spur,
- rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's
- needle, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca.
- nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet.
- crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille; spire,
- pyramid, steeple.
- beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle;
- comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose,
- grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle.
- wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife,
- penknife, whittle, razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, colter;
- hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter;
- scythe, sickle; scissors, shears; sword &c. (arms) 727; bodkin &c.
- (perforator) 262; belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker [U.S.];
- drawing knife, drawing shave.
- sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite; steel,
- emery.
- V. be sharp &c. adj.; taper to a point; bristle with.
- render sharp &c. adj.; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb,
- spiculate, set, strop, grind.
- cut &c. (sunder) 44.
- Adj. sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform; aculeated, acuminated;
- pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate, mucronated; spindle
- shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient; cusped,
- cuspidate, cuspidated; cornute, cornuted, cornicultate; prickly; spiny,
- spinous; thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly,
- briary; craggy &c. (rough) 256; snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform;
- dentiform, denticulated; toothed; odontoid; starlike; stellated,
- stelliform; sagittate, sagittiform; arrowheaded; arrowy, barbed, spurred.
- acinaform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded,
- calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate;
- lanceolate, laciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-
- shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral,
- xiphoid.
- cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor;
- sharp as a needle; sharpened &c. v.; set
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- #254. Bluntness. -- N. bluntness &c. adj.
- V. be blunt, render blunt &c. adj.; obtund, dull; take off the point,
- take off the edge; turn.
- Adj. blunt, obtuse, dull, bluff; edentate, toothless.
-
- #255. Smoothness. -- N. smoothness &c. adj.; polish, gloss; lubricity,
- lubrication.
- down, velvet, silk, satin; velveteen, velumen; slide; bowling green
- &c. (level) 213; glass, ice; asphalt, wood pavement, flags.
- roller, steam roller; sand paper, emery paper; flat iron, sad iron;
- burnisher, turpentine and beeswax.
-
- V. smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize;
- polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, hot-press, mangle; lubricate &c.
- (oil) 332.
- Adj. smooth; polished &c. v.; leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even;
- level &c. 213; plane &c. (flat) 251; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate,
- downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery , glassy, lubricous, oily, soft,
- unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster,
- smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly &c. (feathery)
- 256.
-
- #256. Roughness. -- N. roughness &c. adj.; tooth, grain, texture,
- ripple; asperity, rugosity, salebrosity|, corrugation, nodosity;
- arborescence &c. 242; pilosity.
- brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress,
- lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher;
- curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock.
- plumage, plumosity; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft, fringe,
- toupee.
- wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur;
- fluff.
- knot (convolution) 248.
- V. be rough &c. adj.; go against the grain.
- render-rough &c. adj.; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set
- on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
- Adj. rough, uneven, scabrous, knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly;
- asperous, crisp, salebrous|, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn;
- craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly &c. (sharp 253; arborescent
- &c. 242; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate,
- laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid;
- tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose,
- crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged;
- fringed, befringed; setous|, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the
- fretful porcupine" [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
- downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate, lanated; lanuginous,
- lanuginose; tomentose; fluffy.
- Adv. against the grain.
- Phr. cabello luengo y corto el seso.
-
- #257. Notch. -- N. notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation;
- dimple.
- embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop,
- scollop, vandyke; depression; jag.
- V. notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp,
- scollop, crenulate, vandyke.
- Adj. notched &c. v.; crenate, crenated; denate, denated; denticulate,
- denticulated; toothed, palmated, serrated.
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- #258. Fold. -- N. fold, plicature, plait, ply, crease; tuck, gather;
- flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather,
- wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle,
- dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet;
- plication.
- V. fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle,
- curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill,
- corrugate, ruffle, crimple|, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down
- under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.
- Adj. folded, fluted, pleated &c. v..
-
- #259. Furrow. -- N. furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak,
- striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road,
- cradle hole.
- channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough,
- kennel; ravine &c. (interval) 198; tajo [U.S.], thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].
- V. furrow &c. n.; flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.
- Adj. furrowed &c. v.; ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted,
- canaliculated; bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated; canaliferous; trisulcate;
- curduroy; unisulcate; costate, rimiform.
-
- #260. Opening -- N. hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel;
- transforation; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole,
- pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.
- opening; aperture, apertness; hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence,
- patefaction|, pandiculation; chasm &c. (interval) 198.
- embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light;
- lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; dormer, lantern.
- outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker,
- muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket.
- portal, porch, gate, ostiary|, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door;
- arcade; cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway; lich
- gate.
- way, path &c. 627; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube,
- pipe; water pipe &c. 350; air pipe &c. 351; vessel, tubule, canal, gut,
- fistula; adjutage, ajutage; ostium; smokestack; chimney, flue, tap, funnel,
- gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit, shaft; gallery.
- alley, aisle, glade, vista.
- bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite, thundertube.
- porousness, porosity; sleve, cullender, colander; cribble, riddle,
- screen; honeycomb.
- apertion, perforation; pierching &c. v.; terebration, empalement,
- pertusion|, puncture, acupuncture, penetration.
- opener, key, master key, passe-partout.
- V. open, ope, gape, yawn, bilge; fly open.
- perforate, pierce, empierce|, tap, bore, drill; mine &c. (scoop out)
- 252; tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore,
- spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.
- cut a passage through; make way for, make room for.
- uncover, unclose, unrip; lay open, cut open, rip open, throw open.
- Adj. open; perforated &c. v.; perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed,
- unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent.
- tubular, cannular, fistulous; pervious, permeable; foraminous;
- vesicular, vasicular; porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed,
- infundibular, riddled; tubulous, tubulated; piped, tubate.
- opening &c. v.; aperient.
- Int. open sesame!
-
- #261. Closure. -- N. closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up &c. v.;
- obstruction &c. (hindrance) 706; embolus; contraction &c. 195; infarction;
- constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac,
- caecum; imperforation, imperviousness &c. adj.; impermeability; stopper &c.
- 263.
- V. close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up,
- button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct &c.
- (hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down,
- dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.
- Adj. closed &c. v.; shut, operculated; unopened.
- unpierced, imporous, caecal; closable; imperforate, inpervious,
- impermeable; impenetrable; unpassable, impassable; invious|; pathless,
- wayless; untrodden.
- unventilated; air tight, water tight; hermetically sealed; tight,
- snug.
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- #262. Perforator. -- N. perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel,
- gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, crokscrew,
- dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder,
- lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear &c. (weapon) 727; puncher;
- punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.
-
- #263. Stopper. -- N. stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill,
- stopcock, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing,
- padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.
- cover &c. 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.
- janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary.
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- Section IV. MOTION
- 1. Motion in General
-
- #264 [Successive change of place.] Motion. -- N. motion, movement,
- move; going &c. v.; unrest.
- stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematicss;
- telekinesis.
- step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence,
- carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey
- &c. 266; voyage &c. 267; transit &c. 270.
- restlessness &c. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive
- power; laws of motion; mobilization.
- V. be in motion &c. adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass,
- flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll,
- roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander &c. (deviate) 279;
- walk &c. 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters,
- shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;.
- put in motion, set in motion; move; impel &c. 276; propel &c. 284;
- render movable, mobilize.
- Adj. moving &c. v.; in motion; transitional; motory, motive; shifting,
- movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless &c. (changeable) 149; nomadic
- &c. 266; erratic &c. 279.
- Adv. under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
- Phr. eppur si muove [Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der
- Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom derr Welt.
-
- #265. Quiescence. -- N. rest; stillness &c. adj.; quiescence;
- stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance;
- quietism.
- quiet, tranquillity, calm; repose &c. 687; peace; dead calm,
- anticyclone; statue-like repose; slience &c. 203; not a breath of air, not
- a mouse stirring; sleep &c. (inactivity) 683.
- pause, lull &c. (cessation) 142; stand still; standing still &c. v.;
- lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.
- resting place; gite; bivouac; home &c. (abode) 189; pillow &c.
- (support) 215; haven &c. (refuge) 666' gpa; &c. (arrival) 292.
- V. be quiescent &c. adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose,
- hold the hreath.
- remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry,
- mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop,
- stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest
- on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop &c. (discontinue)
- 142.
- stagnate; quieta non movere; let alone; abide, rest and be thankful;
- keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed.
- dwell &c. (be present) 186; settle &c. (be located) 184; alight &c.
- (arrive) 292 stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir
- a step; be at a stand &c. n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay
- an embargo on.
- Adj. quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary;
- immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still;
- standing still &c. v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed,
- stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful;
- cataleptic; immovable &c. (stable) 150; sleeping &c. (inactive) 683; silent
- &c. 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as
- death.
- Adv. at a stand &c. adj.; tout court; at the halt.
- Int. stop! stay! avast! halt! hold hard! whoa! hold! sabr karo!.
- Phr. requiescat in pace; Deus nobis haec otia fecit [Vergil]; "the
- noonday quiet holds the hill" [Tennyson}.
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- #266. [Locomotion by land.] Journey. -- N. travel; traveling &c. v.
- wayfaring, campaigning.
- journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit,
- peregrination, discursion|, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course,
- ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp,
- jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism;
- somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
- equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie; basophobia.
- roving, vagrancy, pererration|; marching and countermarching;
- nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit,
- flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration|, intermigration;
- wanderlust.
- plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, roadbook; Baedeker, Bradshaw,
- Murray.
- procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.
- [Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle &c. 272; automobile,
- 'train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt
- bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive;
- legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.
- traveler &c. 268.
- depot [U.S.], railway station, station.
- V. travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk,
- go out for walk &c. n.; have a run; take the air.
- flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range,
- patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the
- country; peragrate|; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble,
- stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about;
- expatiate.
- walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare;
- promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, stump,
- bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.
- take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk,
- caracoler, caracole; gallop &c. (move quickly) 274.
- peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's
- steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way,
- pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide,
- glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.
- go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
- Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, intinerant, peripatetic, roving,
- rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean,
- circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive.
- wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
- Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:
- in transitu &c. 270; en route &c. 282.
- Int. come along!
-
- #267. [Locomotion by water, or air.] Navigation. -- N. navigation;
- aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail,
- canvas, aileron.
- natation, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.
- aerostation, aerostatics, aeronautics; balloonery; balloon &c. 273;
- ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation; wing, pinion.
- voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus; headway,
- sternway, leeway; fairway.
- mariner &c. 269.
- V. sail; put to sea &c. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set
- sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry
- sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk
- the waters.
- navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast;
- hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.
- ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
- swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive,
- wade.
- fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter; take wing, take a flight; wing
- one's flight, wing one's way; aviate.
- Adj. sailing &c. v.; volant, aerostatic; seafaring, nautical,
- maritiime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial,
- aeronautic; grallatory.
- Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing.
- Phr. bon voyage; "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale"
- [Pope].
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- #268. Traveler. -- N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant,
- passenger, commuter.
- tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, Alpine
- Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage;
- gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays,
- wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian,
- gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic;
- somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly;
- globegirdler, globetrotter; hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep walker;
- noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman [Aust.]; trecker,
- trekker, zingano, zingaro.
- runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet.
- pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.
- rider,horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer,
- breaker.
- driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter,
- wagoner, drayman; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier, vetturino, condottiere;
- engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard; chauffeur, conductor, engineer,
- gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman.
- Phr. on the road
-
- #269. Mariner. -- N. sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer,
- seafaring man; dock walloper*; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.;
- man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly,
- midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman,
- lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower;
- boatswain, cockswain; coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew.
- aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist, airman,
- aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air.
-
- #270. Transference. -- N. transfer, transference; translocation,
- elocation|; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion,
- amotion; relegation; deportation, asportation; extradition, conveyance,
- draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion; transfer &c.
- (of property) 783.
- transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage, porterage,
- carting, cartage; shoveling &c. v.; vection|, vecture|, vectitation|;
- shipment, freight, wafture; transmission, transport, transportation,
- transumption, transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion
- &c. 73; transposition &c. (interchange) 148; traction &c. 285.
- [Thing transferred] drift.
- V. transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant; convey,
- carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward;
- shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote [U.S.].
- send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship,
- embark; waft; shunt; transpose &c. (interchange) 148; displace &c. 185;
- throw &c. 284; drag &c. 285; mail, post.
- shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse.
- Adj. transferred &c. v.; drifted, movable; portable, portative;
- mailable [U.S.]; contagious.
- Adv. from hand to hand, from pillar to post.
- on the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing; as one goes; in
- transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress.
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- #271. Carrier. -- N. carrier, porter, bearer, tranter|, conveyer;
- cargador; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive,
- motor.
- beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, plafrey, Arab, blood hose,
- throughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony,
- filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch,
- roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse,
- post horse; ketch, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, marek,
- stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse [U.S.]; creature, critter [rural
- U.S.]; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.
- Pegasus, Bucephalus, Rocinante.
- ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro,
- cuddy, ladino [U.S.]; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier
- pigeon.
- carriage &c. (vehicle) 272; ship &c. 273.
- Adj. equine, asinine.
-
- #272. Vehicle. -- N. vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van;
- wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry.
- carriole; truck, tram; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow,
- hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise;
- palankeen, pananquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher,
- ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha,
- ricksha, brett, dearborn [U.S.], dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger,
- kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner [U.S.],
- shay, sloven [Can.], team, tonga, wheel; velocipede, hobbyhorse, gocart;
- cycle; bicycle, tricycle, quadricycle; bike.
- equipage, turnout; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton,
- wagonette, grag, curricle, tilbury, whissky, landau, barouche, victoria,
- brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin;
- sliky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside
- car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout;
- ski; tonjon; vettura.
- post chaise, diligence, stage; stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach,
- glass coach; stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet, cab, hansom,
- shofle, four-wheeler, growler, droshki, drosky.
- dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random,
- tandem; shandredhan, char-a-bancs.
- motor car, automobile, limousine, motorcycle, taxicab, taxicoach.
- bob, bobsled, bobsleigh; cutter; double ripper, double runner [U.S.];
- jumber, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan.
- train; accomodation train, passenger train, express trail, special
- train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train,
- goods train; 1st class train, 2nd class train, 3rd class train, 1st class
- carriage, 2nd class carriage, 3rd class carriage, 1st class compartment,
- 2nd class compartment, 3rd class compartment; crolling stock; horse box,
- cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, Pullman
- car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car;
- box car, box wagon; horse car [U.S.]; lightning express; luggage van;
- mail, mail car, mail van.
- shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle, loy; spud;
- pitchfork.
-
- #273. Ship. -- N. ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.
- navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.
- man of war &c. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship; merchang
- ship, merchangman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster,
- lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala; floating
- hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
- ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine,
- barkantine; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted
- schooner; chasse-maree; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl,
- dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel;
- windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruise ship;
- mail steamer, riverboat, showboat, paddle steamer, paddle wheeler,
- sidewheeler, screw steamer tug; line of steamer.
- boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly
- boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.],
- bateau [Can.] battery, broadhorn, dory, droger, droughter; dugout, durham
- boat, flatboat, galiot; shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow,
- cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret; eight oar, four oar,
- pair oar; randan; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame; iceboat, ice
- canoe, ice yacht.
- catamaran, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe;
- galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack;
- galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa,
- prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat
- [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.];
- wanigan, wangan [U.S.], warf boat.
- balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane; hydroplane;
- aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon; aerostat, Montgolfier;
- kite, parachute.
- Adv. afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port,
- hard a starboard, hard a weather.
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- 2. Degrees of Motion
-
- #274. Velocity. -- N. velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness &c. adj.;
- rapidity, eagle speed; expedition &c. (activity) 682; pernicity|;
- acceleration; haste &c. 684.
- spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift
- rate &c. adj.; rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace,
- lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, straping pace; round
- pace; flying, flight.
- lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart,
- hydrargyrum, quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent.
- eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe,
- squirrel, camel bird, chickaree, chipmunk, hackee [U.S.], ostrich,
- scorcher*.
- Mercury, Ariel, Camilla, Harlequin.
- [Measurement of velocity] log, log line.
- V. move quickly, trip, fisk|; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank,
- scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat
- it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, sweep, skim, brush;
- cut along, bowl along; scorch; rush &c. (be violent) 173; dash on, dash
- off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring,
- dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over
- the ground.
- hurry &c. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's
- pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid
- strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best
- leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry
- sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain
- ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.
- keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip &c. 303; outmarch.
- Adj. fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped; nimble, agile,
- expeditious; express; active &c. 682; flying, galloping &c. v.; light
- footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric,
- telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow &c. n.; quick
- as lightning &c. n., quick as a thought.
- Adv. swiftly &c. adj.; with speed &c. n.; apace; at a great rate, at
- full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full
- sail, tantivy; trippingly; instantaneously &c. 113.
- under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and
- steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid
- strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip
- and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as
- one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the grount, at
- the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste &c. 684.
- Phr. vires acquirit eundo; "I'll put a girdle about the earth in forty
- minutes" [M.N.D.]; "swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow" [M.N.D.]; go
- like a bat out of hell; tempus fugit.
-
- #275. Slowness. -- N. slowness &c. adj.; languor &c. (inactivity) 683;
- drawl; creeping &c. v., lentor.
- retardation; slackening &c. v.; delay &c. (lateness) 133;
- claudication|.
- jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time.
- slow goer, slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard,
- tortoise, snail; poke* [U.S.]; dawdle &c. (inactive) 683.
- V. move slowly &c. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger,
- loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle &c.
- (be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on,
- bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt,
- hobble, limp, caludicate|, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince,
- step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's
- time; hang fire &c. (be late) 133.
- retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike
- sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip
- the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose
- ground.
- Adj. slow, slack; tardy; dilatory &c. (inactive) 683; gentle, easy;
- leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial,
- languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping &c. v.;
- reptatorial.
- Adv. slowly &c. adj.; leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at
- half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a
- funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud
- passibus aequis [Vergil].
- gradually &c. adj.; gradatim; by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches,
- by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit
- by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively.
- Phr. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit; at a glacial pace.
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- 3. Motion conjoined with Force
-
-
- #276. Impulse. -- N. impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push,
- pulsion, thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost [U.S.], throw;
- explosion &c. (violence) 173; propulsion &c. 284.
- percussion, concussion, collision, occursion|, clash, encounter,
- cannon, carambole, appulse, shock, crash, bump; impact; elan; charge &c.
- (attack) 716; beating &c. (punishment) 972.
- blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip;
- slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff &c. 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap,
- punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce|, calcitration; ruade; arietation|; cut,
- thrust, lunge, yerk|; carom, carrom, clip *, jab, plug y, sidewinder y
- [U.S.], sidewipe y [U.S.].
- hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer;
- battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel
- &c. (weapon) 727; ax &c. (sharp) 253.
- [Science of mechanical forces] dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer,
- earthquake detector.
- V. give an impetus &c. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set
- going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder,
- jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against,
- bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head
- against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab,
- plug *.
- strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow,
- bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap,
- batter, dowse|, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow;
- poke at, pink, lunge, yerk; kick, calcitrate; butt, strike at &c. (attack)
- 716; whip *c. (punish) 972.
- come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; foul; fall foul
- of, run foul of; telescope.
- throw &c. (propel) 284.
- Adj. impelling &c. v.; impulsive, impellent; booming; dynamic,
- dynamical; impelled &c. v.
- Phr. "a hit, a very palpable hit" [Hamlet].
-
- #277. Recoil. -- N. recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce,
- rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration; kick, contrecoup;
- springing back &c. v.; elasticity &c. 325; reflexion, reflex, reflux;
- reverberation &c. (resonance) 408; rebuff, repulse; return.
- ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist.
- V. recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back;
- rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet.
- Adj. recoiling &c. v.; refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant,
- reactionary; retroactive.
- Adv. on the rebound, on the recoil &c. n.
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- 4. Motion with reference to Direction
-
-
- #278. Direction. -- N. direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift,
- tenor; tendency &c. 176; incidence; bending, trending &c. v.; dip, tack,
- aim, collimation; steering steerage.
- point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by
- E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c; rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation.
- line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment,
- allignment; air line, beeline; straight shoot.
- V. tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point
- to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.
- steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at;
- take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps
- towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape
- one's course; align one's march, allign one's march; to straight, go
- straight to the point; march on, march on a point.
- ascertain one's direction &c. n.; s'o rienter, see which way the wind
- blows; box the compass; take the air line.
- Adj. directed &c. v. directed towards; pointing towards &c. v.; bound
- for; aligned, with alligned with; direct, straight; undeviating,
- unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly, &c. n.
- Adv. towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to;
- hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an
- arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow
- flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a
- straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight
- line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies.
- before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind;
- windwards, in the wind's eye.
- through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways;
- quaquaversum, from the four winds.
-
- #279. Deviation. -- N. deviation; swerving &c. v.; obliquation|, warp,
- refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination.
- diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c. 291;
- zigzag; detour &c. (circuit) 629; divagation.
- [Desultory motion] wandering &c. v.; vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and
- crooked ways; byroad.
- [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling &c. v.; knight's move at
- chess.
- V. alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve
- &c. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear.
- intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new
- scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.
- stray, straggle; sidle; diverge &c. 291; tralineate|; digress, wander;
- wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a
- corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go
- astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.
- fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the
- right about, face to the right about; waddle &c. (oscillate) 314; go out of
- one's way &c. (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.
- Adj. deviating &c. v.; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive;
- devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected,
- curcuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.
- Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about;
- all manner of ways; circuitously &c. 629.
- obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.
-
- #280. [Going before.] Precession. -- N. precession, leading, heading;
- precedence &c. 62; priority &c. 116; the lead, le pas; van &c. (front) 234;
- precursor &c. 64.
- V. go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede,
- forerun; usher in, introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way,
- lead the dance; get the start, have the start; steal a march; get before,
- get ahead, get in front of; outstrip &c. 303; take precedence &c. (first in
- order) 62.
- Adj. leading, precedent &c. v.
- Adv. in advance, before, ahead, in the van, in the lead; foremost,
- headmost; in front.
- Phr. seniores priores.
-
- #281. [Going after.] Sequence. -- N. sequence; coming after &c.
- (order) 63; (time) 117; following pursuit &c. 622.
- follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train.
- V. follow; pursue &c. 622; go after, gly after.
- attend, beset, dance attendance on, dog; tread in the steps of, tread
- close upon; be in the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in
- the wake of, go in the trail of, go in the rear of, follow in the wake of,
- follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of; follow as a shadow, hang on
- the skirts of; tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of; camp on the
- trail.
- Adj. following &c. v..
- Adv. behind; in the rear &c. 235, in the train of, in the wake of;
- after &c. (order) 63, (time) 117.
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- #282. [Motion forward; progressive motion.] Progression. -- N.
- progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing &c. v.; advance,
- advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march &c. 266; rise;
- improvement &c. 658.
- V. advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground;
- gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep
- one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass
- on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward,
- pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come
- forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go
- ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press
- ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way,
- force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progess, make head,
- make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides &c.
- (velocity) 274; go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.
- Adj. advancing &c. v.; progressive, profluent; advanced.
- Adv. forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on
- one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in
- progress; in mid progress; in transitu &c. 270.
- Phr. vestigia nulla retrorsum; "westward the course of empire takes
- its way" [Berkeley].
-
- #283. [Motion backwards.] Regression. -- N. regress, regression;
- retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction; reculade;
- retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration; recession &c. (motion from)
- 287; recess; crab-like motion.
- refluence, reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience
- reflexion (recoil) 277; volte-face.
- counter motion, counter movement, counter march; veering,
- tergiversation, recidivation|, backsliding, fall; deterioration &c. 659;
- recidivism, recidivity.
- turning point &c.(reversion) 145.
- V. recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde,
- retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish* [U.S.], crawl*; withdraw;
- rebound &c. 277; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall
- back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern;
- backwater, put about; take the back track; veer round; double, wheel,
- countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.
- turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon;
- retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat;
- go home.
- Adj. receding &c. v.; retrograde, retrogressive; regressive, refluent,
- reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky; reactionary &c. 277.
- Adv. back, backwards; reflexively, to the right about; a reculons, a
- rebours.
- Phr. revenouns a nos moutons, as you were.
-
- #284. [Motion given to an object situated in front.] Propulsion. -- N.
- propulsion, projection; propelment; vis a tergo; push, shove &c. (impulse)
- 276; ejaculate; ejection &c. 297; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy.
- [Science of propulsion] projectiles, ballistics, archery.
- [devices to give propulsion] propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine.
- [objects propelled] missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit,
- brickbat, shot;
- [weapons which propel] arrow, gun, ballista &c. (arms) 727.
- shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite; bowman, rifleman, marksman; good
- shot, crack shot; sharpshooter &c. (combatant) 726.
- V. propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk,
- heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.
- dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling,
- pitchfork.
- send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, send
- forth, let fly; dash.
- put in motion, set in motion; set agoing, start; give a start, give an
- impulse to; impel &c. 276; trundle &c. (set in rotation) 312; expel &c.
- 297.
- carry one off one's legs; put to flight.
- Adj. propelled &c. v.; propelling &c. v..; propulsive, projectile.
-
- #285. [Motion given to an object situated behind.] Traction. -- N.
- traction; drawing &c. v.; draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong
- pull and a pull all together"; towage, haulage.
- V. draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in
- tow.
- wrench, jerk, twitch, touse|; yank [U.S.].
- Adj. drawing &c. v.; tractile, tractive.
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- #286. [Motion towards.] Approach. -- N. approach, approximation,
- appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent &c. (approach
- of time) 121; pursuit &c. 622.
- V. approach, approximate, appropinquate; near; get near, go near, draw
- near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in towards;
- drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue &c. 622; tread on the heels of; bear
- up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land.
- Adj. approaching &c. v.; approximative; affluent; impending, imminent
- &c. (destined 152.
- Adv. on the road.
- Int. come hither! approach! here! come! come near! forward!
-
- #287. [Motion from.] Recession. -- N. recession, retirement,
- withdrawal; retreat; retrocession &c. 283; departure, &c. 293; recoil &c.
- 277; flight &c. (avoidance) 623.
- V. recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shirink; come
- away, move away, go away, get away, drift away; depart &c. 293; retreat &c.
- 283; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away &c.
- (avoid) 623.
- remove, shunt.
- Adj. receding &c. v.
-
- #288. [Motion towards, actively] Attraction. -- N. attraction,
- attractiveness; attractivity; drawing to, pulling towards, adduction,
- magnetism, gravity, attraction of gravitation.
- loadstone, loadstar; magnet, siderite.
- V. attract; draw towards, pull towards, drag towars; adduce.
- Adj. attracting &c. v.; attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive.
- Phr. ubi mel ibi apes [Plautus].
-
- #289. [Motion from, actively; force driving apart.] Repulsion. -- N.
- repulsion; driving from &c. v.; repulse, abduction.
- V. repel, push from, drive from &c. 276; chase, dispel; retrude;
- abduce, abduct; send away; repulse.
- keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder;
- send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.
- Adj. repelling &c. v.; repellent, repulsive; abducent, abductive.
-
- #290. [Motion nearer to.] Convergence. -- N. convergence, confluence,
- concourse, conflux, congress, concurrence, concentration; convergency;
- appulse, meeting; corradiation.
- assemblage &c. 72; resort &c. (focus) 74; asymptote.
- V. converge, concur, come together, unite, meet, fall in with; close
- with, close in upon; center round, center in; enter in; pour in.
- gather together, unite, concentrate, bring into a focus.
- Adj. converging &c. v.; conbergent, confluent, concurrent;
- centripetal; asymptoptical, asymptoptic; confluxible.
-
- #291. [Motion further off.] Divergence. -- N. divergence, divergency;
- divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation &c.
- (disjunction) 44; dispersion &c. 73; deviation &c. 279; aberration.
- V. diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file
- off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse &c. 73;
- deviate &c. 279; part &c. (separate) 44.
- Adj. diverging &c. v.; divergent, radiant, centrifugal; aberrant.
-
- #292. [Terminal motion at.] Arrival. -- N. arrival, advent; landing;
- debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur.
- home, goal; landing place, landing stage; bunder; resting place;
- destination, harbor, haven, port; terminus, halting place, halting ground;
- journey's end; anchorage &c. (refuge) 666.
- return, recursion|, remigration; meeting; rencounter, encounter.
- completion &c. 729.
- V. arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up
- to; overtake, make, fetch; complete &c. 729; join, rejoin.
- light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in,
- put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down &c. (be located)
- 184; get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come
- back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in &c. (ingress) 294;
- make one's appearance &c. (appear) 446; drop in; detrain; outspan.
- come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop
- upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter,
- rencounter; come in contact.
- Adj. arriving &c. v.; homeward bound.
- Adv. here, hither.
- Int. welcome! hail! all Hail! good-day, good morrow!
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- #293. [Initial motion from.] Departure. -- N. departure, decession,
- decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit &c. (egress) 295;
- exodus, hejira, flight.
- leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen,
- sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup;
- valedictorian.
- starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of
- embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation.
- V. depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off,
- put off, strt off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off,
- take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth;
- sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.
- leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make
- one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose*, vamose* [U.S.]; go one's
- way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit,
- wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set
- sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under
- way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's
- stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye &c. n.; disappear &c. 449;
- abscond &c. (avoid) 623; entrain; inspan.
- Adj. departing &c. v.; valedictory; outward bound.
- Adv. whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing,
- on the move.
- Int. begone! &c. (ejection) 297; farewell! adieu! goodbye! good day!
- au revoir! fare you well! God bless you! God speed! all aboard! auf
- wiedersehen! au plaisir de vous revoir! bon voyage! gluckliche Reise! vive
- valeque!
-
- #294 [Motion into.] Ingress. -- N. ingress; entrance, entry;
- introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption;
- ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse, import, infiltration;
- immigration; admission &c. (reception) 296; insinuation &c. (interjacence)
- 228; insertion &c. 300.
- inlet; way in; mouth, door, &c. (opening) 260; barway; path &c. (way)
- 627; conduit &c. 350; immigrant.
- V. have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour
- into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip
- in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot
- on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate
- itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle
- into, worm oneself into.
- give entrance to &c. (receive) 296; insert &c. 300.
- Adj. incoming.
-
- #295. [Motion out of.] Egress. -- N. egress, exit, issue; emersion,
- emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emaniation; egression;
- evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating,
- leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush &c. (water in motion) 348;
- outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling &c.
- v.; defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge &c. (excretion) 299.
- export, expatriation; emigration, remigration; debouch, debouche;
- emunctory; exodus &c. (departure) 293; emigrant.
- outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate,
- sallyport; way out; mouth, door &c. (opening) 260; path &c. (way) 627;
- conduit &c. 350; airpipe &c. 351.
- V. amerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out
- of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate.
- exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate,
- transcolate|; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze;
- filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour,
- trickle, &c. (water in motion) 348; effuse, extravasate, disembogue,
- discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst
- through; find vent; escape &c. 671.
- Adj. effused &c. v.; outgoing.
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- #296. [Motion into, actively.] Reception. -- N. reception; admission,
- admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission,
- ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation;
- suction, sucking; eating, drinking &c. (food) 298; insertion &c. 300;
- interjection &c. 228; introit.
- V. give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce,
- intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw
- in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale; let in, take in, suck in; readmit,
- resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp;
- eat, drink &c. (food) 298.
- Adj. admitting &c. v., admitted &c. v.; admissable; absorbent.
-
- #297. [Motion out of, actively] Ejection. -- N. ejection, emission,
- effusion, rejection, expulsion, eviction, extrusion, trajection; discharge;
- emesis.
- egestion, evacuation, vomition; ructation, eructation; bloodletting,
- venesection, phlebotomy, paracentesis; expuitition, exspuitition; tapping,
- drainage; clearance, clearage.
- deportation; banishment &c. (punishment ) 972; rouge's march;
- relegation, extradition; dislodgment.
- bouncer* [U.S.], chucker-out*.
- V. give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, send out;
- dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern|, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern;
- extravastate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the
- floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour
- forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire &c. (exude) 295;
- breathe, blow &c. (wind) 349.
- tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.
- eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott;
- chasser; banish &c. (punish) 972; bounce * [U.S.]; fire *, fire out *;
- throw &c. 284 throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push
- &c. 276 throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel
- away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, wisk off, wisk away,
- turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn
- adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack
- to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the reigh about;
- strike off the roll &c. (abrogate) 756; turn out neck and heels, turn out
- head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea
- in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.
- turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse,
- unkennel; dislodge; unpeople, dispeople; depopulate; relegate, deport.
- empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear
- away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweek of, clear decks, purge.
- embowel, disbowel, disembowwl; eviscerate, gut; unearth, root out,
- root up; averuncate|; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of, do away
- with, shake off; exenterate.
- vomit, spew, puke, keck, retch; belch out; cast up, bring up;
- disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter,
- slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool.
- unpack, unlade, unload, unship; break bulk; dump.
- be let out; ooze &c. (emerge) 295.
- Adj. emitting, emitted, &c. v.
- Int. begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get
- along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you!
- go about your business! be off! avunt! aroynt! allez-vous-en! jao! va-t'en!
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- #298. [Eating.] Food. -- N. eating &c. v.; deglutition, gulp,
- epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; hippophagy, ichthyophagy;
- gluttony &c. 957.
- mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, chops.
- drinking &c. v.; potation, draught, libation; carousal &c. (amusement)
- 840; drunkenness &c. 959.
- food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance,
- sustentation; nuture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder,
- provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissriat &c. (provision) 637;
- prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet, dietary; regimen;
- belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.
- comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake,
- prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates,
- delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshspots;
- festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living.
- beef, bisquit, bun; constrach [U.S.]; cookie, cooky [U.S.]; cracker,
- doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy [U.S.]; mutton, pilot
- bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, peice de resistance,
- roast and boiled; remove, entree, entremet, hors d'oeuvre; releve, hash,
- rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup,
- consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry;
- sweets &c. 296; kickshaws; condiment &c. 393.
- alligator pear, apple &c., apple slump; artichoke; ashcake,
- griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer,
- barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli,
- bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey [U.S.]; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote,
- damper, fish, , frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango,
- mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse
- steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash
- [U.S.], supawn [U.S.], trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.
- table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree.
- meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale;
- regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic,
- feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever,
- tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote,
- dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full
- meal; blowout*; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.
- mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet.
- drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench,
- swill*; nip, sip, sup, gulp.
- wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barlycorn,
- stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop,
- wassail; gin &c. (intoxicating liquor) 959; coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea,
- the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener
- beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate' mint julep
- [U.S.].
- eating house &c. 189.
- V. eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to;
- despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck
- in*; lick, pick, peck; gormandize &c. 957; bite, champ, munch, cranch,
- craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.
- live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse,
- graze, crop, regale; carouse &c. (make merry) 840; eat heartily, do
- justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.
- break bread, break one's fast; breakfast ,lunch, dine, take tea, sup.
- drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up;
- lap; swig; swill*, tipple &c. (be drunken) 959; empty one's glass, drain
- the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's
- whistle.
- purvey &c. 637.
- Adj. eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary; cereal,
- cibarious; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent;
- potable, potulent|; bibulous.
- omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous,
- phytivorous; ichthyivorous; omophagic, omophagous; pantophagous,
- phytophagous, xylophagous
- Phr. "across the walnuts and the wine" [Tennyson]; "blessed hour of
- our dinners!" [O. Meredith]; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and
- health on both!" [Macbeth]; "who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?"
- [Richard II]
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- #299 Excretion -- N. excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation,
- exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis;
- evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-
- flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation;
- diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology.
- saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea;
- ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae &c. (uncleanness) 653.
- hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring &c. (egress) 295.
- V. excrete &c. (eject) 297; emanate &c. (come out) 295.
-
- #300. [Forcible ingress.] Insertion. -- N. insertion, implantation,
- introduction; insinuation &c. (intervention) 228; planting, &c. v.;
- injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress &c. 294;
- immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath &c. (water), 337;
- interment &c. 363.
- clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement.
- V. insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject;
- interject &c. 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.
- graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant; dovetail.
- obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in,
- drive in, popin , whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce| &c. (make a
- hole) 260.
- imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak &c. (water) 337; dip,
- plunge &c. 310.
- bury &c. (inter) 363.
- insert &c itself; plunge in medias res.
- Adj. inserted &c. v.
-
-
- #301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction. -- N. extraction; extracting &c.
- v.; removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution.
- evulsion, avulsion; wrench; expression, squeezing; extirpation,
- extermination; ejection &c. 297; export &c. (egress) 295.
- extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers.
- V. extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out,
- pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up,
- rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the
- roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate|; unroot; uproot, pull up,
- extirpate, dredge.
- remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate &c. (eject) 297;
- eviscerate &c. 297.
- express, squeeze out, press out.
- Adj. extracted &c. v.
-
-
- #302. [Motion through.] Passage. -- N. passage, transmission;
- permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration;
- endosmose exosmose; endosmosis; intercurrence; ingress &c. 294; egress &c.
- 295; path &c. 627; conduit &c. 350; opening &c. 260; journey &c. 266;
- voyage &c. 267.
- V. pass, pass through; perforate &c. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate,
- thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut
- across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's
- way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut
- one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear
- the course; traverse, go over the ground.
- Adj. passing &c. v.; intercurrent; endosmosmic, endosmotic.
- Adv. en passant &c. (transit) 270.
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- #303 [Motion beyond] Transcursion -- N. transcursion|, transiliency,
- transgression; tresspass; encroachment, infringement; extravagation|,
- transcendence; redundance &c. 641.
- V. transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to
- the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon.
- overstep, overpass, overreach, overgo, override, overleap, overjump,
- overskip, overlap, overshoot the mark; outstrip, outleap, outjump, outgo,
- outstep, outrun, outride, outrival, outdo; beat, beat hollow; distance;
- leave in the lurch, leave in the rear; throw into the shade; exceed,
- transcend, surmount; soar &c. (rise) 305.
- encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, intrench on; strain;
- stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.
- Adj. surpassing &c. v.
- Adv. beyond the mark, ahead.
-
- #304 [motion short of] Shortcoming -- N. shortcoming, failure;
- falling short &c v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.
- imcompleteness &c. 53; imperfection &c. 651; insufficiency &c. 640;
- noncompletion &c. 730; failure &c. 732.
- V. 303, come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short , fall
- short , stop short ; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the
- mark, keep withim the compass.
- break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out [U.S.], come to
- nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the
- mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.
- Adj. unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth;
- perfunctory &c. (neglect) 460.
- Adv. within the mark, within the compass, within the bounds;
- behindhand; re infecta; to no purpose; for from it.
- Phr. the bubble burst.
-
- #305. [Motion upwards] Ascent. -- N. ascent, ascension; rising &c.
- 309; acclivity, hill &c. 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
- rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
- V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way
- up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; aspire.
- climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; scale, scale the
- heights.
- go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off, spring up; hover, spire,
- plane, swim, float, surge; leap &c. 309.
- Adj. rising &c. v. scandent|, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant|;
- excelsior.
- Adv. uphill.
-
- #306. [Motion downwards] Descent. -- N. descent, descension,
- declension, declination; fall; falling &c. v.: slump; drop, plunge,
- plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip,
- tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus.
- avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.
- declivity, dip, hill.
- V. descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop,
- slip, slide, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop,
- come down a peg; slump.
- dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop &c. 308; fall
- prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall &c. 308.
- tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple
- over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come
- down a cropper.
- Adj. descending &c. v.; descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent,
- deciduous; nodding to its fall.
- Adv. downhill, downwards.
- Phr. the bottom fell out.
-
- #307. Elevation. -- N. elevation; raising &c. v.; erection, lift;
- sublevation, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c. (convexity)
- 250.
- lever &c. 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge,
- dredger, dredging maching; dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.
- V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up,
- perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear,
- upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate;
- place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.
- take up, drag up, fish up; dredge.
- stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold
- oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
- Adj. elevated &c. v.; stilted, attollent, rampant.
- Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind
- legs.
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- #308. Depression. -- N. lowering &c. v.; depression; dip &c.
- (concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion; reduction.
- overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,
- precipitation.
- bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance,
- salaam.
- V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a
- peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce,
- detrude, pitch, precipitate.
- overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell;
- cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut
- down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull
- about one's ears.
- sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy,
- curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head,
- bow the head; cower; recline &c. (be horizontal) 213.
- Adj. depressed &c. v.; at a low ebb; prostrate &c. (horizontal) 213;
- detrusive.
- Phr. facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
-
- #309. Leap. -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation.
- ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade|, gambado|; capriole, demivolt;
- buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade.
- kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper;
- wallaby.
- V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp,
- cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole;
- foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk &c. (amusement) 840; jump about
- &c. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light
- fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
- Adj. leaping &c. v.; saltatory, frisky.
- Adv. on the light fantastic toe.
- Phr. di salto in salto.
-
- #310 Plunge -- N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c. v.; diver.
- V. plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a
- header; make a plunge; bathe &c.(water) 337.
- submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.
- get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop
- like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.
-
-
- #311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition. -- N. circuition, curculation;
- turn, curvet; excursiion, circumvention, circumnavigation,
- circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit &c. 629.
- turning &c. v.; wrench; evolution; coil, corkscreq.
- V. turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right
- about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle,
- make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go
- through 180x, go through 360x, pass through 180x, pass through 360x.
- circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; "put a girdle round about
- the earth" [M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.
- wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist &c. (convolution) 248;
- make a detour &c. (circuit) 629.
- Adj. turning &c. v.; circuitous; circumforaneous, circumfluent.
- Adv. round about.
-
- #312. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation. -- N. rotation,
- revolution, gyration, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution,
- circumgyration; volutation, circination|, turbination, pirouette,
- convolution.
- verticity|, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge;
- countercurrent; cyclone, tornado; surge; vertigo, dizzy round; Maelstrom,
- Charybdis; Ixion.
- wheel, screw, whirligig, rollingstone, windmill; top, teetotum;
- roller; flywheel; jack; caster.
- axis, axle, spindle, pivot, pin, hinge, pole, swivel, gimbals, arbor,
- bobbin, mandrel.
- [Science of rotary motion] trochilics.
- V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve;
- circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.
- roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin
- like a teetotum.
- Adj. rotating &c.v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory, trochilic,
- vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose.
- Adv. head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.
-
- #313. [Motion in the reverse circle.] Evolution. -- N. evolution,
- unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion &c. (inversion)
- 218.
- V. evove; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine,
- unravel; disentagle; develop.
- Adj. evolving &c. v.; evolved &c. v.
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- #314. [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro.] Oscillation. -- N.
- oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation;
- undulation; pulsation; pulse.
- alternation; coming and going &c. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux,
- ups and down.
- fluctuation; vacillation &c. (irresolution) 605.
- wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch,
- dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope.
- V. oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock,
- swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play;
- wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.
- fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker;
- wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down,
- bob up and down &c. Adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go;
- vacillate &c. 605; teeter [U.S.].
- brandish, shake, flourish.
- Adj. oscillating &c. v.; oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory,
- libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile; pendulous.
- Adv. to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon,
- seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets
- in a well.
-
- #315. [Irregular motion] Agitation. -- N. agitation, stir, tremor,
- shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation,
- quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation|, quassation|; shuffling 7c. v.;
- twitter, flicker, flutter.
- disquiet, pertubation, commotion, turmoil, turbulence; tumult,
- tumultuation|; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers,
- megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jercks, St.
- Vitus's dance, tilmus.
- spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion.
- disturbance 7c. (disorder) 59; restlessness &c. (changeableness) 149.
- ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly,
- cahotage; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpook, vortex &c.
- 312; whirlwind &c. (wind) 349.
- V. be agitated &c.; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf;
- quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle,
- tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an
- eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet,
- prance, cavort [U.S.]; squirm.
- throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter,
- flicker, bicker; bustle.
- ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.
- toss about, jumb about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen
- leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the
- winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to
- pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar
- to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.
- agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap,
- flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle,
- disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.
- Adj. shaking &c. v.; agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory|;
- saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive,
- unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.
- Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily| &c. adj.; per saltum; hop skip
- and jump; in convulsions, in fits.
- Phr. tempete dans un verre d'eau.
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- CLASS III
- Words Relating to MATTER
- Section 1. MATTER IN GENERAL
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- #316. MATERIALITY. -- N. materiality, materialness; corporeity,
- corporality; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum;
- physical condition.
- matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle,
- parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame.
- object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones;
- materials &c. 635.
- [Science of matter] physics; somatology, somatics; natural philosophy,
- experimental philosophy; physicism; physical science, philosophie positive,
- materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism, somatist.
- Adj. material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic,
- somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.
- objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual,
- materialistic.
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- #317. Immateriality. -- N. immateriality, immaterialness;
- incorporeity, spirituality; inextension; astral plane.
- personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit &c. (soul) 450; astral body;
- immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist.
- V. disembody, spiritualize.
- Adj. immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate,
- unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied;
- extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual &c. (psychical) 450.
- personal, subjective, nonobjective.
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- #318. World. -- N. world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe,
- wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm;
- music of the spheres.
- heavens, sky, welkin|, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry
- host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven,
- canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.
- heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way,
- galactic circle, via lactea.
- sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar
- system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana,
- silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star,
- shooting star; meteorite, uranolite.
- constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big
- Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt,
- Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.
- colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit.
- [Sicence of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranogrraphy, uranology;
- cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony; eidouranion, orrery; goedesy &c.
- (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer; astronomer; observatory;
- planetarium.
- Adj. cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious|,
- terraqueous, terrene, terreous|, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun;
- sublunary, subastral.
- solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar;
- sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic.
- Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here velow, under the
- sun.
- Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the
- frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]; "green calm below, blue
- quietness above" [Whittier]; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"
- [Paradise Lost]; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]; "silently
- as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]; "some touch of nature's genial glow"
- [Scott]; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]; "through
- knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].
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- #319. Gravity. -- N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c. adj.;
- specific gravity; pondorosity, pressure, load; burden, burthen; ballast,
- counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
- lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
- weighing, ponderation, trutination|; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy
- weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb,
- arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton,
- quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod.
- [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram;
- nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
- [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam,
- weighbridge; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance,
- two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.
- [Science of gravity] statics.
- V. be heavy &c. adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
- [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
- Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable;
- lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
- incumbent, superincumbent.
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- #320. Levity. -- N. levity; lightness &c. adj.; imponderability,
- buoyancy, volatility.
- feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer,
- straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
- leaven, ferment, barm, yeast.
- V. be light &c. adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up.
- render light &c. adj.; lighten, leaven.
- Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic,
- weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous;
- uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c. v.; portable.
- light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air.
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- Section II. INORGANIC MATTER
- 1. Solid Matter
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- #321. Density.. -- N. density, solidity; solidness &c. adj.;
- impenetrability, impermeability; imcompressibility; imporosity; cohesion
- &c. 46; constipation, consistence, spissitude|.
- specific gravity; hydrometer, areometer.
- condensation; caseation; solidation, solidification; consolidation;
- concretion, coagulation; petrification &c. (hardening) 323;
- crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation;
- thickening &c. v.
- indivisibility, indiscerptibility, indisolvableness.
- solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete,
- conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage;
- casein, crassamentum|, legumin.
- V. be dense &c. adj.; become solid, render solid &c. adj.; solidify,
- solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd,
- curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere,
- crystallize; petrify &c. (harden) 323.
- condense, thicken, inspissate, incrassate; compress, squeeze, ram
- down, constipate.
- Adj. dense, solid; solidified &c. v.; caseous; pukka; coherent,
- cohesive &c. 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive,
- lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, imporous; incompressible; constipated;
- concrete &c. (hard) 323; knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline,
- crystallizable; thick, grumous|, stuffy.
- undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed.
- indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble,
- insoluble, infusible.
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- #322. Rarity. -- N. rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity &c. 321;
- subtility; subtilty, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility.
- rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization.
- ether &c. (gas) 334.
- V. rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize.
- Adj. rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight;
- light &c. 320; cavernous, spongy &c. (hollow) 252.
- rarefied &c. v.;; unsubstantial; uncompact, incompressed; rarefiable.
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- #323. Hardness. -- N. hardness &c. adj.; rigidity; renitence,
- renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity .
- induration, petrifaction; lapidification, lapidescence; vitrification,
- ossification; crystallization.
- stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz,
- granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board,
- deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail;
- brick, concrete; cement.
- V. render hard &c. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper,
- ossify, vitrify; accrust.
- Adj. hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark,
- unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated;
- gritty, proof.
- adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous,
- lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous;
- hard as a rock &c. n.; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker.
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- #324. Softness. -- N. softness, pliableness &c. adj.; flexibility;
- pliancy, pliability; sequacity, malleability; ductility, tractility;
- extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity.
- clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow,
- feather bed, down, padding, wadding.
- mollification; softening &c.v.
- V. render -soft &c. adj.; soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper;
- mash, knead, squash.
- bend, yield, relent, relax, give.
- Adj. soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe,
- lithesome; lisom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable,
- extensiole, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient.
- yielding &c. v.; flabby, limp, flimsy.
- doughy, spongy.
- flaccid, flocculent, downy; oedematous, medullary, argillaceous,
- mellow.
- soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as
- chicken.
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- #325. Elasticity. -- N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience,
- renitency, buoyancy.
- rubber, India(n) rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic,
- baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic.
- V. stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic &c. adj.; bounce, spring
- back &c. (recoil) 277.
- Adj. elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant.
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- #326. Inelasticity. -- N. want of elasticity, absence of elasticity
- &c. 325; inelasticity &c. (softness) 324,
- Adj. unyielding, inelastic, inflexible &c. (soft) 324; irresilient.
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- #327. Tenacity. -- N. {ant. 328} tenacity, toughness, strength;
- (cohesion) 46; grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion) 46; sequacity;
- stubbornness &c. (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness,
- viscidity, (semiliquididty) 352.
- leather; white leather, whitleather; gristle, cartilage.
- V. be tenacious &c. adj.; resist fracture.
- Adj. tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly
- cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather; stubborn &c.
- (obstinate) 606.
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- #328. Brittleness. -- N. {ant. 327} brittleness &c. adj.; fragility,
- friability, fragibility, fissibility; house of cards, house of glass.
- V. be brittle &c. adj.; live in a glass house.
- break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short,
- burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.
- Adj. brittle, brash [U.S.], frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack|,
- shivery, fissile; splitting &c. v.; lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp,
- short, brittle as glass.
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- #329. [Structure.] Texture. -- N. structure (form) 240, organization,
- anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction; framework, carcass,
- architecture; stratification, cleavage.
- substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple,
- organism.
- [Science of structures] organography, osteology, myology,
- splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology; angiography, adenography.
- texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain,
- web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap &c. (roughness) 256;
- fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.
- [Science of textures] histology.
- Adj. structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical.
- textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate,
- subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun.
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- #330. Pulverulence. -- N. [State of powder.] powderiness,
- pulverulence; sandiness &c. adj.; efflorescence; friability.
- powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina,
- rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle &c. (smallness)
- 32; limature|, filings, debris, detritus, scobs, magistery, fine powder;
- flocculi.
- smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke,
- volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm.
- [Reduction to powder] pulverization, comminution, attenuation,
- granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation,
- abrasion, detrition, multure; limitation; tripsis; filing &c.v..
- [Instruments for pulverization] mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater,
- rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone,
- kern, quern, koniology.
- V. come to dust; be disintegrated, be reduced to powder &c.
- reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate,
- triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp,
- pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch,
- crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attentuate &c. 195.
- Adj. powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous,
- branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous;
- arenose, arenarious, arenaceous; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable;
- lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline; sporaceous, sporous.
- pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized &c. v.; attrite;
- in pieces.
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- #331. Friction. -- N. friction, attrition; rubbing &c. v.;
- confrication|, detrition, contrition|, affriction, abrasion, arrosion|,
- limature|, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness &c. 256.
- V. rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry,
- scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind &c. (reduce to powder)
- 330.
- set one's teeth on edge; rosin.
- Adj. anatriptic; attrite.
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- #332. [Absence of friction. Prevention of friction.] Lubrication. --
- N. smoothness &c. 255; unctuousness &c. 355.
- lubrication, lubrification; anointment; oiling &c. v.
- synovia; glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease &c. 356; saliva;
- lather.
- V. lubricate, lubricitate|; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax.
- Adj. lubricated &c. v.; lubricous.
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- 2. FLUID MATTER
- 1. Fluids in General
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- #333. Fluidity. -- N. fluidity, liquidity; liquidness &c. adj.;
- gaseity &c. 334.
- fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap,
- serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies; chyle.
- solubility, solubleness.
- [Science of liquids at rest] hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics.
- V. be fluid &c. adj.; flow &c. (water in motion) 348; liquefy, melt,
- condense &c. 335.
- Adj. liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent
- &c. (flowing) 348.
- liquefied &c. 335; uncongealed; soluble.
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- #334. Gaseity. -- N. gaseity; vaporousness &c. adj.; flatulence,
- flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerifiction.
- elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek,
- effluvium, flatus; cloud &c. 353; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali;
- vacuum, partial vacuum.
- [Science of elastic fluids] pneumatics, pneumatostatics; aerostatics,
- aerodynamics.
- gasmeter, gasometer; air bladder, swimming bladder, sound (of a fish).
- V. vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor &c. 336; diffuse.
- Adj. gaseous, aeriform, etherea, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile,
- evaporable, flatulent.
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- #335. Liquefaction. -N. liquefaction; liquescence, liquescency;
- melting &c. (heat) 384; colliquation|, colliquefaction|; thaw; liquation|,
- deliquation|, deliquescence; lixiviation, dissolution.
- solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux.
- solvent, menstruum, alkahest.
- V. render liquid &c. 333; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt &c. (heat)
- 384; solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate|; hold in solution; condense,
- precipitate, rain.
- Adj. liquefied &c. v., liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble,
- colliquative.
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- #336. Vaporization. -- N. vaporization, volatilization; gasification,
- evaporation, vaporation; distillation, cupellation, cohabilition,
- sublimination, exhalation; volatility.
- vaporizer, still, retort; fumigation, steraming; bay salt, chloride of
- sodium.
- V. render -gaseous &c. 334; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime;
- evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam,
- fumigate; cohobate; finestill.
- Adj. volatilized &c. v.; reeking &c. v.; volatile; evaporable,
- vaporizable.
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- #337. Water. -- N. water; serum, serosity; lymph; rheum; diluent;
- agua, aqua, pani.
- dilution, maceration, lotion; washing &c. v.; immersion|, humectation,
- infiltration, spargefaction|, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation,
- bath.
- deluge &c. (water in motion) 348; high water, flood tide.
- V. be watery &c. adj.; reek.
- add water, water, wet; moisten &c. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge;
- immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate,
- pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench;
- dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.
- Adj. watery, aqueous, aqatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal, diluent;
- drenching &c. v.; diluted &c. v.; weak; wet &c. (moist) 339.
- Phr. the waters are out.
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- #338. Air. -- N. air &c. (gas) 334; common air, atmospheric air;
- atmosphere; aerosphere.
- open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud &c. 353.
- weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar.
- [Science of air] aerology, aerometry, aeroscopy, aeroscopy,
- aerography; meteorology, climatology; pneumatics; eudioscope, baroscope,
- aeroscope, eudiometer, barometer, aerometer; aneroid, baroscope; weather
- gauge, weather glass, weather cock.
- exposure to the air, exposure to the weather; ventilation;
- aerostation, aeronatics, aeronaut.
- V. air, ventilate, fan &c. (wind) 349.
- Adj. containing air, flatulent, effervescent; windy &c. 349.
- atmospheric, airy; aerial, aeriform; meteorological; weatherwise.
- Adv. in the open air, a la belle etoile, al fresco; sub jove dio.
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- #339. Moisture. -- N. moisture; moistness &c. adj.; humidity,
- humectation; madefaction|, dew; serein; marsh &c. 345; hygrometry,
- hygrometer.
- V. moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbeu,
- imbreu, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench &c. (water) 337.
- be moist &c. adj.; not have a dry thread; perspire &c. (exude) 295.
- Adj. moist, damp; watery &c. 337; madid, roric; undried, humid,
- sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy; roral|, rorid|; roscid; juicy.
- wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated &c. v.
- swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden,
- sloppy, muddy; swampy &c. (marshy) 345; irriguous.
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- #340. Dryness. -- N. dryness &c. adj.; siccity, aridity, drought, ebb
- tide, low water.
- exsiccation|, desiccation; arefaction|, dephlegmation|, drainage;
- drier, desiccative, dessicator.
- V. be dry &c. adj.; render dry &c. adj.; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge,
- swab, wipe; exsiccate, desiccate; drain, parch.
- be fine, hold up.
- Adj. dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent|; dried &c. v.; undamped;
- juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a
- bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit.
- water proof, water tight.
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- #341. Ocean -- N. sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves,
- billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, "vasty deep"; wave,
- tide, &c. (water in motion) 348.
- hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad,
- Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin.
- Adj. oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing;
- hydrographic; bathybic, cotidal.
- Adv. at sea, on sea; afloat.
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- #342. Land. -- N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma.
- continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; dongue of land,
- neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory &c. (projection) 250; highland &c.
- (height) 206.
- coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard,
- seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land;
- derelict; innins; alluvium , alluvion; anicon.
- soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil,
- clod, clot; rock, crag.
- acres; real estate &c. (property) 780; landsman.
- V. land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land;
- come ashore, go ashore, debark.
- Adj. earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian,;
- alluvial; terrene &c. (world) 318; landed, predial, territorial;
- geophilous; repicolous.
- Adv. ashore; on shore, on land.
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- #343. Gulf. Lake -- N. land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay,
- inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou [U.S.], fiord, armlet; frith,
- firth, ostiary|, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural
- harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles;
- continental slope, continental shelf.
- lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle,
- slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish
- pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir &c. (store) 636;
- alberca, barachois, hog wallow [U.S.].
- Adj. lacustrine.
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- #344. Plain. -- N. plain, table-land, face of the country; open
- country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild,
- steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor,
- moorland; busch; plateau &c. (level) 213; campagna; alkali flat, llano;
- mesa, mesilla [U.S.], playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.
- meadow, mead, haugh, pasurage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot,
- grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds;
- maidan, agostadero.
- Adj. champaign, alluvial; campestral, campestrial, campestrian,
- campestrine.
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- #345. Marsh. -- N. marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog,
- quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall [U.S.], cienaga,
- jhil, vlei.
- Adj. marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft;
- muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny.
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- #346. Island. N. island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll,
- breaker; archipelago; islander.
- Adj. insular, seagirt; archipelagic.
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- 3. Fluids in Motion
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- #347. [Fluid in motion.] Stream. -- N. stream &c. (of water) 348, (of
- air) 349.
- V. flow &c. 348; blow &c. 349.
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- #348. [Water in motion.] River. -- N. running water.
- jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet
- d'eau; sluice.
- water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll,
- Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe|, cataclysm; debacle,
- inundation, deluge; chute, washout.
- rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain,
- drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of
- Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash;
- dropping &c. v.; falling weather.
- stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence &c. (egress) 295;
- defluxion; flowing &c. v.; current, tide, race, coulee.
- spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet,
- rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike, burn, beck,
- creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.
- body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high
- tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught,
- reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom,
- regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation|.
- wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; <gr/anerythmon gelasma/gr>; beach
- comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses,
- whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea,
- chopping sea.
- [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics,
- hydraulicostatics; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology.
- irrigation &c. (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart;
- hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti, mussuk.
- V. flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue;
- drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate;
- stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle,
- murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgel, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate;
- ooze, flow out &c. (egress) 295.
- rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour
- with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle.
- flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself,
- disembogue.
- [Cause a flow] pour; pour out &c. (discharge) 297; shower down,
- irrigate, drench &c. (wet) 337; spill, splash.
- [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up &c. (close) 261; obstruct &c. 706.
- Adj. fluent; diffluent, profluent, affluent; tidal; flowing &c. v.;
- meandering, meandry, meandrous; fluvial, fluviaatile; streamy,
- showery,rainy, pluvial, stillicidous ; stillatitious.
- Phr. "for men may come and men may go but I go on forever" [Tennyson]
- "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along" [Showboat]
-
- #349. [Air in motion] Wind. -- N.. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus,
- efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow,
- drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent.
- gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest,
- hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon;
- simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise,
- tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen
- blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther,
- vendaval, wuther.
- windiness &c.adj.; ventosity|; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly
- weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black
- squall, white squall.
- anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane;
- anemometer, anemoscope.
- sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing,
- fanning &c. v.; ventilation.
- sneezing &c.v.: errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation;
- hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.
- Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.
- air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator,
- punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
- V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c.. n.;
- wuther; stream, issue.
- respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle;
- sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.
- fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate|; blow up.
- Adj. blowing &c. v.; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy,
- tempestuous, blustering; boisterous &c. (violent) 173.
- pulmonic, pulmonary.
- Phr. "lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on
- the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air"
- [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged with red
- lightning and tempestuous rage" [Paradise Lost].
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- #350. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit. -- N. conduit,
- channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau,
- aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct,
- canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge;
- vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough,
- kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe &c. (tube) 260; funnel; tunnel &c. (passage)
- 627; water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore,
- spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock,
- weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.
- Adj. vascular &c. (with holes) 260.
-
- #351. [Channel for the passage of air.] Airpipe. -- N. air pipe, air
- tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney,
- funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus,
- bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator;
- louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe &c. (wind) 349; pipe &c. (tube)
- 260; jhilmil; smokestack.
-
-
- 3. IMPERFECT FLUIDS
-
-
- #352. Semiliquidity. -- N. semiliquidity; stickiness &c. adj.;
- viscidity, viscosity; gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity; spissitude,
- crassitude; lentor; adhesiveness &c. (cohesion) 46.
- impissation, incrassation; thickening.
- jelly, mucilage, gelatin; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla;
- insinglass; mucus, phelgm; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen,
- milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity) 327; wax,
- beeswax; emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture &c. 339;
- marsh &c. 345.
- V. inspissate, incrassate; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up.
- Adj. semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose; half melted, half frozen;
- milky, muddy &c. n.; lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous;
- emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous.
- gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; gelatin, mastic,
- amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky; slab,
- slabby; lentous , pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous.
-
- #353. [Mixture of air and water.] Bubble. [Cloud.] -- N. bubble, foam,
- froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift.
- cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack,
- nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus;
- cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost
- smoke; thunderhead.
- [Science of clouds] nephelognosy; nephograph, nephology.
- effervescence, fermentation; bubbling &c. v.
- nebula; cloudliness &c. (opacity) 426; nebulosity &c. (dimness) 422.
- V. bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle;
- effervesce, ferment, fizzle.
- Adj. bubbling &c. v.; frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling,
- mousseux, up.
- cloudy &c. n.; thunderheaded; vaporous, nebulous, overcast.
- Phr. "the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened landscip" [Paradise
- Lost].
-
- #354. Pulpiness. -- N. pulpiness &c. adj.; pulp, taste, dough, curd,
- pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume.
- Adj. pulpy &c. n.; pultaceous, grumous; baccate.
-
- #355. Unctuousness. -- N. unctuousness &c. adj.; unctuosity,
- lubricity; ointment &c. (oil) 356; anointment; lubrication &c. 332.
- V. oil &c. (lubricate) 332.
- Adj. unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat,
- fatty, greasy; waxy, butryaceous, soapy, saponaceous, piguid, lardaceous;
- slippery.
-
- #356. Oil. -- N. oil, fat, buttter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard,
- dripping exunge|, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft
- soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral,
- mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive
- oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal
- oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite,
- amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate of
- amyl, ghee; heating oil, #2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet
- fuel, gasoline, naphtha; stearin.
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- #356a. Resin. -- N. resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber,
- ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish,
- copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan.
- V. varnish &c. (overlay) 223.
- Adj. resiny, resinous; butuminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic,
- alsphaltite.
-
-
- SECTION III. ORGANIC MATTER
-
- 1. VITALITY
-
- 1. Vitality in general
-
- #357. Organization. -- N. organized world, organized nature; living
- nature, animated nature; living beings; organic remains, fossils.
- protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure &c. 329;
- organization, organism.
- [Science of living beings] biology; natural history, organic
- chemistry, anatomy, physiology; zoology &c. 368; botany &c. 369;
- naturalist.
- archegenesis &c. (production) 161; antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy,
- chromosome, dysmeromorph; ecology, oecology; erythroblast, gametangium,
- gamete, germinal matter, invagination; isogamy, oogamy; karyaster;
- macrogamete, microgamete; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm,
- ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa,
- spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea,
- zygote.
- Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism.
- morphology, taxonomy.
- Adj. organic, organized; karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar,
- zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.
-
- #358. Inorganization. -- N. mineral world,mineral kingdom;
- unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter.
- [Science of the mineral kingdom] mineralogy, geology, geognosy,
- geoscopy; metallurgy, metallography; lithology; oryctology|, oryctography|.
- V. turn to dust.
- Adj. inorganic, inanimate, inorganized; lithoidal; azoic; mineral.
-
- #359. Life. -- N. life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark,
- vital flame, soul, spirit.
- respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils;
- lifeblood; Archeus; existence &c. 1.
- vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization;
- revivification &c. 163; Prometheus; life to come &c. (destiny) 152.
- [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.
- nourishment, staff of life &c. (food) 298.
- V. be alive &c. adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist &c. (exist) 1;
- walk the earth "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be
- spared.
- see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw
- breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive;
- come to life.
- give birth to &c. (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life,
- vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate &c. (restore) 660; keep alive, keep
- body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.
- hive nine lives like a cat.
- Adj. living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living;
- on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated;
- animative; lively &c. (active) 682; all alive and kicking; tenacious of
- life.
- vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified, &c. v.; viable, zoetic;
- Promethean.
- Adv. vivendi causa.
- Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita
- [Marial].
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- #360. Death. -- N. death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure,
- obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality,
- morbidity.
- end of life &c. 67, cessation of life &c. 142, loss of life,
- extinction of life, ebb of life &c. 359.
- death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death,
- agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of
- death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying
- agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.
- King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c. (necessity) 601; "Hell's
- grim Tyrant" [Pope].
- euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay;
- sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature;
- suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease &c. (disease) 655; death blow &c.
- (killing) 361.
- necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c. (lamentation)
- 839.
- V. die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away,
- be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being,
- resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly
- career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this
- life; be no more &c. adj.; go off, dropp off, pop off; lose one's life, lay
- down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the
- grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop deat, fall
- down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up
- the ghost; be all over with one.
- pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last
- sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks,
- hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the greater number,
- join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry,
- cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy
- Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's
- will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle;
- come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the
- bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death
- &c. (be killed) 361.
- Adj. dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct;
- late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off,
- released; departed this life &c. v.; dead and gone; dead as a doornail,
- dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits;
- launched into eternity, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.
- dying &c. v.; moribund, morient|; hippocratic; in articulo, in
- extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux
- abois; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at
- death's door,, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with
- one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.
- stillborn; mortuary; deadly &c. (killing) 361.
- Adv. post obit, post mortem.
- Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are
- numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed;
- Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out
- of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Vergil]; de
- mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Horace];
- honesta mors turpi vita potior [Tacitus]; "in adamantine chains shall death
- be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Girace];; ominia mors aequat
- [Claudianus]; "Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost]; "the lone couch of
- this everlasting sleep" [Shelley].
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- #361. [Destruction of live; violent death.] Killing. -- N. killing &c.
- v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation|, iccusion|;
- effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery;
- battue.
- massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism.
- deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution &c.
- (capital punishmnt) 972; judicial murder; martydom.
- butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat,
- garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows,
- executioner &c. (punishment) 975; maneater, apache, hatchet man [U.S.],
- highbinder [U.S.].
- regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide,
- foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide.
- suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto
- da fe, holocaust.
- suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging &c. v.; lapidation.
- deadly weapon &c. (arms) 727; Aceldama.
- [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting;
- the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking;
- sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles,
- abattoir.
- fatal accident, violent death, casuality.
- V. kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher,
- slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life;
- make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.
- strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the
- breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
- saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run
- through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of
- the sword.
- shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone,
- lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quiietus, - coupe de
- grace.
- behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas &c. (execute) 972.
- hunt, shoot &c. n.
- cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last
- account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.
- give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade
- knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.
- die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains,
- blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with
- oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
- Adj. killing &c. v.; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary,
- sanguinolent; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody,
- bloody minded; ensanguined, gory.
- mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous , lethiferous;
- unhealthy &c. 657; internecine; suicidal.
- sporting; piscatorial, piscatory.
- Adv. in at the death.
- Phr. "assassination has never changed the history of the world"
- [Disraeli].
-
- #362. Corpse. -- N. corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton,
- dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust,
- ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes;
- tenement of clay this mortal coil.
- shade, ghost, manes.
- organic remains, fossils.
- Adj. cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied &c. 363; sapromyiophyllous.
-
- #363. Interment. -- N. interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation|;
- obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation.
- funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell,
- tolling; dirge &c. (lamentation) 839; cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled
- drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral
- sermon; epitaph.
- graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement.
- coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque,
- cinerary urn.
- grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum,
- Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place,
- burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow,
- tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue;
- lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's
- field, stupa, Tower of Silence.
- sexton, gravedigger.
- monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone;
- memento mori; hatchment, stone.
- exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination;
- zoothapsis.
- V. inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the
- tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mumify;
- toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.
- exhume, disinter, unearth.
- Adj. burried &c. v.; burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary,
- sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic.
- Adv. in memoriam; post obit, post mortem; beneath the sod.
- Phr. hic jacet, ci-git; RIP; requiescat in pace; "the lone couch of
- his everlasting sleep" [Shelley]; "without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd,
- and unknown" [Byron]; "in the dark union of insensate dust" [Byron]; "the
- deep cold shadow of the tomb" [Moore].
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- 2. Special Vitality
-
- #364. Animality. -- N. animal life; animation, animality,
- animalization; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath.
- flesh, flesh and blood; hysique; strength &c. 159.
- Adj. fleshly,human, corporeal.
-
- #365. Vegetability|. -- N. vegetable life; vegetation, vegetability|;
- vegetality.
- Adj. rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive.
-
- #366. Animal. -- N. animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.
- beast, brute, creature, created being; creeping thing, living thing;
- dumb animal, dumb creature.
- flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game,
- feroe naturoe; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea;
- black game, black grouse; blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.
- mammal, quadruped, bird, reptile, fish, custacean, shellfish, mollusk,
- worm, insect, zoophyte; animalcule &c. 193; alligator, crocodile; honeybee;
- saurian; trout.
- horse &c. (beast of burden) 271; cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow,
- milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup;
- pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak,
- zebu.
- dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog,
- sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull
- dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound,
- fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, ointer, setter,
- retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit;
- terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
- cat; puss, pussy; grimalkin; gib cat, tom cat; fox, Reynard, vixen,
- stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox,
- sambar.
- bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet,
- rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered
- songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine,
- cushat, cygnet, ringdove, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.
- snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick; vermin.
- Adj. animal, zoological
- equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory,
- piscatorial; molluscous, vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial, solidungulate,
- soliped.
-
- #367. Vegetable. -- N. vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.
- plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
- annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.
- timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt,
- weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope,
- clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub;
- boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte [U.S.].; arboretum &c. 371.
- bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse,
- whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus,
- mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa,
- alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam,
- yew, zinnia.
- foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella; spray &c. 51; leaf.
- flower, blossom, bine; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree;
- pulse, legume.
- Adj. vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous|; herbaceous, herbal;
- botanic; sylvan, silvan; arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical|;
- woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous, ligneous;
- wooden, leguminous; vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy; endogenous,
- exogenous.
- Phr. "green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats]; "this is the
- forest primeval" [Longfellow].
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- #368. [The science of animals.] Zoology. -- N. zoology, zoonomy,
- zoography, zootomy; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal physiology,
- comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy.
- anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology,
- malacology, helminthology, entomology, oryctology, paleontology, mastology,
- vermeology; ichthy &c. ichthyotomy; taxidermy.
- zoologist &c.
- Adj. zoological &c. n.
-
- #369. [The science of plants.] Botany. -- N. botany; physiological
- botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography, phytology,
- phytotomy; vegetable physiology, herborization, endrology, mycology,
- fungology, algology; flora, romona; botanic garden &c. (garden) 371; hortus
- siccus, herbarium, herbal.
- botanist &c.; herbist, herbarist, herbalist, herborist, herbarian.
- V. botanize, herborize.
- Adj. botanical &c. n.; botanic.
-
- #370. [The economy or management of animals.] Husbandry. -- N.
- husbandry, taming &c. v.; circuration, zoohygiantics; domestication,
- domesticity; manege, veterinary art; farriery; breeding, pisciculture.
- menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary,
- alveary, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.
- [Destruction of animals] phthisozoics &c. (killing) 361.
- neatherd, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper; trainer,
- breeder; apiarian, apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy, cow puncher
- [U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet,
- veterinary surgeon.
- cage &c. (prison) 752; hencoop, bird cage, cauf; range, sheepfold, &c.
- (inclosure) 232.
- V. tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage,
- bridle, &c. (restrain) 751.
- Adj. pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.
-
- #371. [The economy or management of plants.] Agriculture. -- N.
- agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage,
- agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture,
- floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.
- husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor,
- agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter,
- backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist; Triptolemus.
- field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental
- garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery;
- green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot,
- grassplat, lawn; park &c. (pleasure ground) 840; parterre, shrubbery,
- plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery;
- orangery; farm &c. (abode) 189.
- V. cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut;
- manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow,
- rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].
- Adj. agricultural, agrarian, agrestic.
- arable, predial, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.
-
- #372. Mankind. -- N. man, mankind; human race, human species, human
- kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.
- [Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography,
- anthroposophy; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian.
- human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature,
- mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul;
- earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae; quidam.
- people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at
- large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal,
- commonwealth; republic, body politic; million &c. (commonalty) 876;
- population &c. (inhabitant) 188.
- cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.
- Adj. human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public,
- social; cosmopolitan; anthropoid.
- Phr. "am I not a man and a brother?" [Wedgwood].
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- #373 Man. -- N. man, male, he, him; manhood &c. (adolescence) 131;
- gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau,
- elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband &c. (married man) 903; Mr., mister;
- boy &c. (youth) 129.
- [Male animal] cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse,
- entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup;
- bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot.
- Adj. male, he, masculine; manly, virile; unwomanly, unfeminine.
- Phr. hominem pagina nostra sapit [Mar.]; homo homini aut deus aut
- lupus [Erasmus]; homo vitae commodatus non donatus est [Syrus].
-
- #374. Woman. -- N. woman, she, her, female, petticoat.
- feminality, muliebrity; womanhood &c. (adolescence) 131.
- womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.
- dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle, matron,
- dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife;
- squaw; wife &c. (marriage) 903; matronage, matronhood.
- bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.
- nymph, wench, grisette; girl &c. (youth) 129.
- [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean, henhussy, molly
- coddle, muff, old woman.
- [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat,
- tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.
- gynecaeum.
- Adj. female, she; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly,
- wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic, gynaecic.
- Phr. "a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]; "a lovely lady
- garmented in white" [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan [Goethe];
- "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]; es de vidrio la mujer;
- "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen" [Pope]; "the beauty of a lovely
- woman is like music" [G. Eliot]; varium et mutabile semper femina [Vergil];
- "woman is the lesser man" [Tennyson].
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- 2. SENSATION
- 1. Sensation in general
-
- #375. Physical Sensibility. -- N. sensibility; sensitiveness &c. adj.;
- physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics;
- moral sensibility &c. 822.
- sensation, impression; conciousness &c. (knowledge) 490.
- external senses.
- V. be sensible of &c. adj. ; feel, perceive.
- render sensible &c. adj.; sharpen, cultivate, tutor.
- cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an impression.
- Adj. sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient;
- concious &c. (aware) 490.
- acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.
- Adv. to the quick.
- Phr. "the touch'd needle trembles to the pole" [Pope].
-
- #376. Physical Insensibility. -- N. insensibility, physical
- insensibility; obtuseness &c. adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia,
- anaesthesia; sleep &c. 823; hemiplegia, motor paralysis.
- anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide,
- laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.
- V. be insensible &c. adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide.
- render insensible &c. adj.; anaesthetize, blunt, pall, obtund, benumb,
- paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c. n.; stupefy, stun.
- Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-
- skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse,
- dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.
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- #377. Physical Pleasure. -- N. pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual
- pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification,
- hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness &c. adj.; dissipation, round of
- pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow &c.
- (support) 215; luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs,
- bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe &c. (intemperance) 954.
- treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice; dainty &c. 394; bonne
- bouche.
- source of pleasure &c. 829; happiness &c. (mental enjoyment) 827.
- V. feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy,
- relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat
- up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips.
- live on the fat of the land, live in comfort &c. adv.; bask in the
- sunshine, faire ses choux gras..
- give pleasure &c. 829.
- Adj. enjoying &c. v.; luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable,
- cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease.
- pleasant, agreeable &c. 829.
- Adv. in comfort &c. n.; on a bed of roses &c. n.; at one's ease.
- Phr. ride si sapis [Martial]; voluptales commendat rarior usus
- [Juvenal].
-
- #378. Physical Pain. -- N. pain; suffering, suffrance; bodily pain,
- physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental
- suffering &c. 828; dolour, ache; aching &c. v.; smart; shoot, shooting;
- twinge, twitch, gripe, headache; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort,
- malaise; cephalalgia, earache, gout, ischiagra, lumbago, neuralgia,
- odontalgia, otalgia, podagra, rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux,
- toothache, tormina, torticollis.
- spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion,
- throe; throb &c. (agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink.
- sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting,
- gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain.
- anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation, crucifixion;
- martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.
- V. feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain &c. n.;
- suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate;
- writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.
- give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite,
- gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring,
- convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; excrutiate ; break on
- the wheel, put to the rack; flog &c. (punish) 972; grate on the ear &c.
- (harsh sound) 410.
- Adj. in pain &c. n., in a state of pain; pained &c. v.; gouty,
- podagric, torminous.
- painful; aching &c. v.; sore, raw.
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- 2. Special Sensation
- (1) Touch
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- #379. [Sensation of pressure] Touch. -- N. touch; tact, taction,
- tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation;
- massage.
- [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler,
- antenna; palpus.
- V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble;
- twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate,
- wield; throw out a feeler.
- Adj. tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent.
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- #380. Sensations of Touch. -- N. itching &c. v.; titillation,
- formication, aura; stereognosis.
- V. itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,
- titillate.
- Adj. itching &c. v.; stereognostic, titillative.
-
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- #381. [insensibility to touch.] Numbness. -- N. numbness &c. (physical
- insensibility) 376; anaesthesia; pins and needles.
- V. benumb &c. 376.
- Adj. numb; benumbed &c. v.; deadened; intangible, impalpable.
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- (2) Heat
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- #382. Heat. -- N. heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor,
- calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic.
- phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire;
- firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring
- element; adiathermancy; recalescence.
- summer, dog days; canicular days; baking &c. 384 heat, white heat,
- tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco,
- simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming &c. 384.
- sun &c. (luminary) 423.
- [Science of heat] pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer &c.
- 389.
- V. be hot &c. adj.; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek,
- stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch,
- fume, pant.
- heat &c. (make hot) 384; recalesce; thaw, give.
- Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal,
- thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.
- sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling,
- stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c. v.; baking &c. 384.
- red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning &c. v. hot, piping hot; like
- a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an
- ox.
- fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing,
- smoking; live; on fire; dazzling &c. v.; in flames, in a blaze; alight,
- afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a
- glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering,
- sweltered; blood hot, blodd warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.
- volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
- Phr. not a breath of air;," whirlwinds of tempestuous fire " [Paradise
- Lost].
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- #383. Cold. -- N. cold, coldness &c. adj.; frigidity, inclemency,
- fresco.
- winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla.
- [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow
- drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard
- frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly [N. Am.]; icicle, thick-
- ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier;
- neve, serac; pruina.
- [Sensation of cold] chilliness &c. adj.; chill; shivering &c. v.;
- goose skin, rigor, horripilation, chattering of teeth.
- V. be cold &c. adj.; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder,
- didder, quiver; perish with cold; chill &c. (render cold) 385; horripilate.
- Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen,
- bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing,
- pinching; clay-cold; starved &c. (made cold) 385; shivering &c. v.; aguish,
- transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.
- cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a
- frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as
- custard.
- icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal,
- boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal; hyperborean, hyperboreal; icebound;
- frozen out.
- unwarmed, unthawed; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal, isocheimenal,
- isocheimic.
- Adv. coldly, bitterly &c. adj.; pierre fendre;
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- #384. Calefaction. -- N. increase of temperature; heating &c. v.;
- calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction; melting, fusion; liquefaction &c.
- 335; burning &c. v.; ambustion, combustion; incension|, accension;
- concremation, cremation; scorification; cautery, cauterization; ustulation,
- calcination; incineration, cineration; carbonization; cupellation.
- ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration| ; deflagration,
- conflagration; empyrosis, incendiarism; arson; auto dafe.
- boiling &c. v.; coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation|, decoction;
- ebullioscope; geyser.
- furnace &c. 386; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding &c. (lining) 224;
- clothing &c. 225.
- match &c. (fuel) 388; incendiary; petroleuse;
- [biological effects resembling the effects of heat] [substances
- causing a burning sensation and damage on skin or tissue] cauterizer;
- caustic, lunar caustic, apozem, moxa; aqua fortis, aqua regia;
- catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid;
- radium.
- sunstroke, coup de soleil; insolation.
- [artifacts requiring heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics,
- crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta,
- brick, clinker.
- [products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers; slag.
- [products of heating organic materials] coke, carbon, charcoal; wood
- alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil
- (fuel) 388; wax, paraafin; residue, tar.
- inflammability, combustibility.
- [Transmission of heat] diathermancy, transcalency.
- V. heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment; make hot &c. 382; sun oneself.
- fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite,
- strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume;
- fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow
- the fire; make a bonfire of.
- melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy &c. 335.
- burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy,
- scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine,
- incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to
- the flames, consign to the flames.
- boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags.
- take fire, catch fire; blaze &c. (flame) 382.
- Adj. heated &c. v.; molten, sodden; rchauff; heating &c. v.; adust.
- inflammable, combustible; diathermal, diathermanous; burnt &c. v.;
- volcanic, radioactive.
-
-
- #385. Refrigeration. -- N. refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of
- temperature; cooling &c. v.; congelation, conglaciation| ; ice &c. 383;
- solidification &c. (density) 321; ice box (refrigeratory) 385..
- extincteur; fire annihilator; amianth, amianthus; earth-flax,
- mountain-flax; flexible asbestos; fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility)
- 388a.
- incombustibility, incombustibleness &c. adj. (insulation) 388a.
- V. cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate;
- benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip,
- cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,
- damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out
- (incombustibility) 388a..
- Adj. cooled &c. v.; frozen out; cooling &c. v.; frigorific.
- incombustible; uninflammable, unflammable; fireproof.
-
-
- #386. Furnace. -- N. furnace, stove, kiln, oven; hearth, focus,
- athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln;
- Dutch oven; tuyare, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler,
- caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort,
- crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; electric heater, electric furnace,
- electric resistance heat;.
- fire-place, fire-dog, fire-irons; grate, range, kitchener; caboose,
- camboose; poker, tongs, shovel, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; frying-pan,
- stew-pan, backlog.
- hothouse, bakehouse, washhouse; laundry; conservatory;
- sudatory; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, warm bath;
- vaporarium.
-
- #387. Refrigeratory. -- N. refrigerator, refrigeratory; frigidarium;
- cold storage; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper; wine
- cooler; freezing mixture.
-
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- #388. Fuel. -- N. fuel, firing, combustible.
- [solid fuels] coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon,
- charcoal; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder &c. (products
- of combustion) 384; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense;
- port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance
- coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U. S.].
- brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve,
- vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock.
- candle &c. (luminary) 423; oil &c. (grease) 356.
- Adj. carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable.
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- #389. Thermometer. -- N. thermometer, thermometrograph, thermostat,
- thermoscope; pyrometer, calorimeter.
-
- (3) Taste
-
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- #390. Taste. -- N. taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish;
- sapor|, sapidity; twang, smack, smatch| ; aftertaste, tang.
- tasting; degustation, gustation.
- palate, tongue, tooth, stomach.
- V. taste, savor, smatch, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate &c.
- (savory) 394; smack the lips.
- Adj. sapid, saporific; gustable|, gustatory; gustful; strong;
- palatable &c. 394.
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-
- #391. Insipidity. -- N. insipidity, blandness; tastelessness &c. adj.
- V. be tasteless &c. adj.
- Adj. void of taste &c. 390; insipid; tasteless, gustless|, savorless;
- ingustible|, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid, fade,
- wishy-washy, mild; untasted.
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-
- #392. Pungency. -- N. pungency, piquancy, poignancy haut-gout, strong
- taste, twang, race.
- sharpness &c. adj.; acrimony; roughness &c. (sour) 392; unsavoriness
- &c. 395.
- niter, saltpeter; mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning &c. (condiment)
- 393; niter, salpeter, brine; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal
- volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn.
- dram, cordial, nip.
- nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed;
- fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier,
- rappee, stogy.
- V. be pungent &c. adj.; bite the tongue.
- render -pungent &c. adj.; season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine,
- devil. smoke, chew, take snuff.
- Adj. pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-
- seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant;
- spicy; seasoned &c. v.; hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating,
- escharotic, meracious|; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough &c. (sour) 397;
- unsavory &c. 395.
- salt, saline, brackish, briny; salty as brine, salty as a herring,
- salty as Lot's wife.
-
- #393. Condiment. -- N. condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish,
- appetizer.
- salt; mustard, pepper, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion,
- garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, red pepper;
- chutney; cubeb, pimento.
- V. season &c. (render pungent) 392.
-
- #394. Savoriness. -- N. savoriness &c. adj.; relish, zest; appetizer.
- titbit, dainty, delicacy, ambrosia, nectar, bonne-bouche; game,
- turtle, venison; delicatessen.
- V. be savory &c. adj.; tickle the palate, tickle the appetite; flatter
- the palate.
- render palatable &c. adj.
- relish, like, smack the lips.
- Adj. savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good,
- palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful, toothsome; gustful,
- appetizing, lickerish, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial.
- Adv. per amusare la bocca
- Phr. cela se laisse manger.
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- #395. Unsavoriness. -- N. unsavoriness &c. adj.; amaritude; acrimony,
- acridity; roughness &c. (sour) 397; acerbity, austerity; gall and wormwood,
- rue, quassia, aloes; marah; sickener.
- V. be unpalatable &c. adj.; sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the
- stomach.
- Adj. unsavory, unpalatable, unsweet; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as
- gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.
- offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening &c. v.; nauseous; loathsome,
- fulsome; unpleasant &c. 830.
-
-
- #396. Sweetness. -- N. sweetness, dulcitude.
- sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection,
- confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep;
- sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon,
- jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple
- sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy.
- nectar; hydromel, mead, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine.
- pastry, pie, tart, puff, pudding.
- dulcification|, dulcoration|.
- V. be sweet &c. adj.
- render sweet &c. adj.; sweeten; edulcorate; dulcorate|, dulcify|;
- candy; mull. Adj. sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous; dulcet, candied,
- honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous; sweetened &c. v.
- sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey.
- Phr. eau sucre; " sweets to the sweet " [Hamlet].
-
-
- #397. Sourness. -- N. sourness &c. adj.; acid, acidity; acetous
- fermentation.
- vinegar, verjuice, crab, alum; acetic acid, lactic acid.
- V. be sour; sour, turn sour &c. adj.; set the teeth on edge.
- render sour &c. adj.; acidify, acidulate.
- Adj. sour; acid, acidulous, acidulated; tart, crabbed; acetous,
- acetose; acerb, acetic; sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent, subacid;
- styptic, hard, rough.
-
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- (4) Odor
-
-
- #398. Odor. -- N. odor, smell, odorament|, scent, effluvium;
- emanation, exhalation; fume, essence, trail, nidor|, redolence.
- sense of smell; scent; act of smelling &c. v.; olfaction, olfactories.
- V. have an odor &c. n.; smell, smell of, smell strong of; exhale; give
- out a smell &c. n.; scent.
- smell, scent; snuff, snuff up; sniff, nose, inhale.
- Adj. odorant, odorous, odoriferous; smelling, strong-scented;
- redolent, graveolent, nidorous, pungent.
- [Relating to the sense of smell] olfactory, quick-scented.
-
-
-
- #399. Inodorousness.-- N. inodorousness; absence of smell, want of
- smell.
- deodorant, deodorization, deodorizer.
- V. be inodorous &c. adj.; not smell. deodorize.
- Adj. inodorous, inodorate; scentless; without smell, wanting smell &c.
- 398.
- deodorized, deodorizing.
-
-
-
- #400. Fragrance. -- N. fragrance, aroma, redolence, perfume, bouquet;
- sweet smell, aromatic perfume.
- agalloch, agallochium; aloes wood; bay rum; calambac, calambour;
- champak, horehound, lign-aloes, marrubium, mint, muskrat, napha water,
- olibanum, spirit of myrcia.
- incense; musk, frankincense; pastil, pastille; myrrh, perfumes of
- Arabia; otto, ottar, attar; bergamot, balm, civet, potpourri, pulvil|;
- nosegay; scent, scentbag; sachet, smelling bottle, vinaigrette; eau de
- Cologne; thurification.
- perfumer.
- V. be fragrant &c. adj.; have a perfume &c. n.; smell sweet, scent,
- perfume, embalm.
- Adj. fragrant, aromatic, redolent, spicy, balmy, scented sweet-
- smelling, sweet-scented; perfumed, perfumatory; thuriferous; fragrant as a
- rose, muscadine, ambrosial.
-
-
- #401. Fetor. -- N. fetor; bad &c. adj. smell, bad odor; stench, stink;
- foul odor, malodor; empyreuma; mustiness &c. adj.; rancidity; foulness &c.
- (uncleanness) 653.
- stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet,
- fitchew, fourmart, peccary.
- V. have a bad smell &c. n.; smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink
- like a polecat; smell strong &c. adj., smell offensively.
- Adj. fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive,
- noisome, rank, rancid, reasty, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy; olid,
- olidous|; nidorous; smelling, stinking; putrid &c. 653; suffocating,
- mephitic; empyreumatic.
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- (i) SOUND IN GENERAL
-
-
- #402. Sound. -- N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation,
- tone; cadence; sonorousness &c. adj.; audibility; resonance &c. 408; voice
- &c. 580; aspirate; ideophone; rough breathing.
- [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology,
- phonography; diacoustics, diaphonics; phonetism.
- V. produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound;
- resound &c. 408.
- Adj. sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible,
- distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.
- Phr. "a thousand trills and quivering sounds " [Addison]; forensis
- strepitus.
-
-
- #403. Silence. -- N. silence; stillness &c. (quiet) 265; peace, hush,
- lull; muteness &c. 581; solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence,
- deathlike silence.
- V. be silent &c. adj.; hold one's tongue &c. (not speak) 585.
- render silent &c. adj.; silence, still, hush; stifle, muffle, stop;
- muzzle, put to silence &c. (render mute) 581.
- Adj. silent; still, stilly; noiseless, soundless; hushed &c. v.; mute
- &c. 581.
- soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave; inaudible &c.
- (faint) 405.
- Adv. silently &c. adj.; sub silentio.
- Int. hush! silence! soft! whist! tush! chut! tut! pax! be quiet! be
- silent! be still! shut up![rude]; chup! chup rao! tace!
- Phr. one might hear a feather drop, one might hear a pin drop; grosse
- Seelen dulden still [German]; le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont
- pas sages [French]; le silence est le parti le plus sar de celui se dfie
- de soi-meme[French]; "silence more musical than any song " [C. G.
- Rossetti]; tacent satis laudant[Latin].
-
-
- #404. Loudness.-- N. loudness, power; loud noise, din; blare; clang,
- clangor; clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub,
- bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare,
- tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom; resonance &c. 408.
- vociferation, hullabaloo, &c. 411; lungs; Stentor.
- artillery, cannon; thunder.
- V. be loud &c. adj.; peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, fulminate,
- roar; resound &c. 408. speak up, shout &c. (vociferate) 411; bellow &c.
- (cry as an animal) 412.
- rend the air, rend the skies; fill the air; din in the ear, ring in
- the ear, thunder in the ear; pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the
- ears, split the head; deafen, stun; faire le diable a quatre; make one's
- windows shake; awaken the echoes, startle the echoes.
- Adj. loud, sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; deep, full,
- powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous; thundering, deafening
- &c. v; trumpet-tongued; ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening;
- piercing; obstreperous, rackety, uproarious; enough to wake the dead,
- enough to wake seven sleepers.
- shrill &c. 410 clamorous &c. (vociferous) 411 stentorian,
- stentorophonic|.
- Adv. loudly &c. adj. aloud; at the top of one's voice, lustily, in
- full cry.
- Phr. the air rings with; "the deep dread-bolted thunder" [Learl.
-
- #405. Faintness. -- N. faintness &c. adj.; faint sound, whisper,
- breath; undertone, underbreath; murmur, hum, susurration; tinkle; " still
- small voice."
- hoarseness &c. adj.; raucity.
- V. whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow;
- tinkle; mutter &c. (speak imperfectly) 583; susurrate.
- steal on the ear; melt in the air, float on the air.
- Adj. inaudible; scarcely audible, just audible; low, dull; stifled,
- muffled; hoarse, husky; gentle, soft, faint; floating; purling, flowing &c.
- v.; whispered &c. v.; liquid; soothing; dulcet &c. (melodious) 413;
- susurrant, susurrous.
- Adv. in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce, between the teeth,
- aside; piano, pianissimo; d la sourdine; out of earshot inaudibly &c. adj.
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-
- #406. [Sudden and violent sounds.] Snap. -- N. snap &c. v.; rapping
- &c. v.; decrepitation, crepitation; report thud; burst, explosion,
- discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley.
- sqib, cracker, gun, popgun.
- V. rap, snap, tap, knock; click; clash; crack, crackle; crash; pop;
- slam, bang, clap; brustle; burst on the ear; crepitate, rump.
- Adj. rapping &c. v.
-
-
-
- #407. [Repeated and protracted sounds.] Roll. -- N. roll &c. v.;
- drumming &c. v.; berloque, bombination, rumbling; tattoo; dingdong;
- tantara; rataplan; whirr; ratatat; rubadub; pitapat; quaver, clutter,
- charivari, racket; cuckoo; repetition &c. 104; peal of bells, devil's
- tattoo; reverberation &c. 408.
- V. roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack; bombinate.
- hum, trill, shake; chime, peal, toll; tick, beat.
- drum in the ear, din in the ear.
- Adj. rolling &c. v.; monotonous &c. (repeated) 104; like a bee in a
- bottle.
-
- #408. Resonance. -- N. resonance; ring &c. v.; ringing, &c. v.;
- reflexion, reflection, reverberation.
- low note, base note, bass note, flat note, grave note, deep note;
- bass; basso, basso profondo; baritone, barytone; contralto.
- V. resound, reverberate, reecho, `resonate`; ring, jingle, gingle,
- chink, clink; tink, tinkle; chime; gurgle &c. 405 plash, goggle, echo, ring
- in the ear.
- Adj. resounding &c. v.; resonant, reverberant, tinnient|,
- tintinnabulary; deep-toned, deep-sounding, deep-mouthed; hollow,
- sepulchral; gruff &c. (harsh) 410.
- Phr. " sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh " [Hamlet]; echoing
- down the mountain and through the dell.
-
-
- #408a. Nonresonance. -- N. thud, thump, dead sound; nonresonance;
- muffled drums, cracked bell; damper; silencer.
- V. sound dead; stop the sound, damp the sound, deaden the sound,
- deaden the reverberations, dampen the reverberations.
- Adj. nonresonant, dead.
-
-
- #409. [Hissing sounds.] Sibilation. -- N. sibilation; zip; hiss &c.
- v.; sternutation; high note &c. 410.
- goose, serpent.
- V. hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle; fizz, fizzle; wheeze, whistle, snuffle;
- squash; sneeze; sizzle, swish.
- Adj. sibilant; hissing &c. v.; wheezy; sternutative.
-
- #410. [Harsh sounds.] Stridor. -- N. creak &c. v.; creaking &c. v.;
- discord, &c. 414; stridor; roughness, sharpness, &c. adj.; cacophony;
- cacoepy.
- acute note, high note; soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny
- trumpet, voce di testa.
- V. creak, grate, jar, burr, pipe, twang, jangle, clank, clink; scream
- &c. (cry) 411; yelp &c. (animal sound) 412; buzz &c. (hiss) 409.
- set the teeth on edge, corcher les oreilles; pierce the ears, split
- the ears, split the head; offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar upon the
- ear.
- Adj. creaking &c. v.; stridulous, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous|,
- rough, gruff, grum, sepulchral, hollow.
- sharp, high, acute, shrill; trumpet-toned; piercing, ear-piercing,
- high-pitched, high-toned; cracked; discordant &c. 414; cacophonous.
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- #411. Cry. -- N. cry &c. v.; voice &c. (human) 580; hubbub; bark &c.
- (animal) 412.
- vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint;
- lungs; stentor.
- V. cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell,
- bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak, shriek, shrill, squeak, squeal,
- squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup.
- cheer; hoot; grumble, moan, groan.
- snore, snort; grunt &c. (animal sounds) 412.
- vociferate; raise up the voice, lift up the voice; call out, sing out,
- cry out; exclaim; rend the air; thunder at the top of one's voice, shout at
- the top of one's voice, shout at the pitch of one's breath, thunder at the
- pitch of one's breath; s'gosiller; strain the throat, strain the voice,
- strain the lungs; give a cry &c.
- Adj. crying &c. v.; clamant, clamorous; vociferous; stentorian &c.
- (loud) 404; open-mouthed.
-
-
- #412. [Animal sounds.] Ululation. -- N. cry &c. v.; crying &c. v.;
- bowwow, ululation, latration, belling; reboation; woodnote; insect cry,
- fritiniancy|, drone; screech owl; cuckoo.
- V. cry, roar, bellow, blare, rebellow.
- [specific animal sounds] bark [dog, seal]; yelp [dog]; bay, bay at the
- moon [dog, wolf]; yap, growl, yarr|, yawl, snarl, howl [dog, wolf]; grunt,
- gruntle; snort [pig, hog, swine, horse]; , squeak [swine, mouse]; neigh
- [horse]; bray [donkey, mule, hinny, ass]; mew, mewl [kitten]; meow [cat];
- purr [cat]; caterwaul, pule [cats]; bleat [lamb]; low, moo [cow, cattle];
- troat, croak, peep [frog]; coo [dove, pigeon]; gobble [turkeys]; quack
- [duck]; gaggle, guggle [goose]; crow, caw, screech, [crow]; cackle,
- cluck, clack [hen, rooster, poultry]; chuck, chuckle; chirp, cheep,
- chirrup, twitter, cuckoo; hum , buzz; hiss [snakes, geese]; blatter.
- Adj. crying &c. v.; blatant, latrant, remugient, mugient; deep-
- mouthed, full-mouthed; rebellowing, reboant.
- Adv. in full cry.
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-
-
- #413. Melody. Concord. -- N. melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme
- &c.(poetry) 597.
- pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.
- scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale, enharmonic scale;
- key, clef, chords.
- modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation,
- suspension, resolution.
- staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato, appoggiatura;
- acciaccatura.
- note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note
- &c.(shrillness) 410; low note &c. 408; interval; semitone; second, third,
- fourth &c.; diatessaron.
- breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver;
- sustained note, drone, burden.
- tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic, mediant,
- dominant; submediant, subdominant; octave, tetrachord; major key, minor
- key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.
- concord, harmony; emmeleia; unison, unisonance; chime, homophony;
- euphony, euphonism; tonality; consonance; consent; part.
- [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-
- bass; counterpoint; faburden.
- piece of music &c. 415; composer, harmonist, contrapuntist.
- V. be harmonious &c. adj.; harmonize, chime, symphonize, transpose;
- put in tune, tune, accord, string.
- Adj. harmonious, harmonical; in concord &c. n., in tune, in concert;
- unisonant, concentual, symphonizing, isotonic, homophonous, assonant;
- ariose, consonant.
- measured, rhythmical, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic.
- melodious, musical; melic; tuneful, tunable; sweet, dulcet, canorous;
- mellow, mellifluous; soft, clear, clear as a bell; silvery; euphonious,
- euphonic, euphonical; symphonious; enchanting &c. (pleasure-giving) 829;
- fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned.
- Adv. harmoniously &c. adj.
- Phr. " the hidden soul of harmony " [Milton].
-
-
- #414. Discord. -- N. discord , discordance; dissonance, cacophony,
- want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness &c. 410. [Confused sounds]
- Babel; Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers.
- V. be discordant &c. ad .; jar &c. (sound harshly) 410.
- Adj. discordant; dissonant, absonant; out of tune, tuneless;
- unmusical, untunable; unmelodious, immelodious; unharmonious, inharmonious;
- singsong; cacophonous; harsh &c. 410; jarring.
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- #415. Music. -- N. music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody &c. 413;
- aria, arietta; piece of music, sonata; rondo, rondeau; pastorale, cavatina,
- roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza;
- cadence; fugue, canon, serenade, notturno[Italian], dithyramb; opera,
- operetta; oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo[Italina],
- toccata, Vorspiel[German].
- instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee,
- band, orchestra; concerted piece, potpourri, capriccio.
- vocal music, vocalism; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song &c.
- (poem) 597; canticle, canzonet, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty,
- carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo, solfeggio.
- Lydian measures; slow music, slow movent; adagio &c. adv.; minuet;
- siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge &c. (lament) 839; pibroch;
- martial music, march; dance music; waltz &c. (dance) 840.
- solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett; septett; part song, descant,
- glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon, antiphony;
- accompaniment, second, bass; score; bourdon, drone, morceau, terzetto.
- composer &c. 413; musician &c. 416.
- V. compose, perform &c. 416; attune.
- Adj. musical; instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic; harmonious
- &c. 413; Wagnerian.
- Adv. adagio; largo, larghetto, andante, andantino; alla capella;
- maestoso, moderato; allegro, allegretto; spiritoso, vivace, veloce; presto,
- prestissimo; con brio; capriccioso; scherzo, scherzando; legato, staccato,
- crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando, affettuoso; obbligato; pizzicato;
- desto.
- Phr. " in notes by distance made more sweet " [Collins]; " like the
- faint exquisite music of a dream " [Moore]; " music arose with its
- voluptuous swell " [Byron]; " music is the universal language of mankind "
- [Longfellow]; " music's golden tongue " [Keats]; " the speech of angels "
- [Carlyle]; " will sing the savageness out of a bear " [Othello].
-
- #416. Musician. [Performance of Music.] -- N. musician, artiste,
- performer, player, minstrel; bard &c. (poet) 597; accompanist,
- accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist;
- harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.
- band, orchestral waits.
- vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter, chauntress,
- songstress; cantatrice.
- choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel.
- nightingale, philomel, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred
- nine; Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine,
- tuneful quire.
- composer &c. 413.
- performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization.
- V. play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle; strike
- the lyre, beat the drum; blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn;
- doodle; grind the organ; touch the guitar &c. (instruments) 417; thrum,
- strum, beat time.
- execute, perform; accompany; sing a second, play a second; compose,
- set to music, arrange.
- sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl,
- quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle; sol-fa; intone.
- have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.
- Adj. playing &c. v.; musical.
- Adv. adagio, andante &c. (music) 415.
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- #417. Musical Instruments. -- N. musical instruments; band; string-
- band, brass-band; orchestra; orchestrina.
- [Stringed instruments] monochord, polychord; harp, lyre, lute,
- archlute; mandola, mandolin, mandoline; guitar; zither; cither, cithern;
- gittern, rebeck, bandurria, banjo; bina, vina; xanorphica.
- viol, violin; fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore, viola di gamba;
- tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass; bass viol, base viol; theorbo, double
- base, contrabasso, violone, *psaltery; bow, fiddlestick.
- piano, pianoforte; harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord, manichord;
- clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, pianino, Eolian
- harp. .
- [Wind instruments] organ; harmonium, harmoniphon; American organ,
- barrel organ, hand organ; accordian, seraphina, concertina; humming top.
- flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet; clarinet, claronet; basset horn,
- corno di bassetto, oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais, corno Inglese, bassoon,
- double bassoon, contrafagotto, serpent, bass clarinet; bagpipes, union
- pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed instrument; sirene, pipe,
- pitch-pipe; sourdet; whistle, catcall; doodlesack, harmoniphone.
- horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean|, clarion, trumpet,
- trombone, ophicleide; Frenchhorn, buglehorn, saxhorn, flugelhorn, althorn,
- helicanhorn, posthorn; sackbut, euphonium, bombardon tuba.
- [Vibrating surfaces] cymbal, bell, gong; tambour, tambourine; drum,
- tom-tom; tabor, tabret, tabourine, taborin; side drum, kettle drum;
- tympani; tymbal, timbrel, castanet, bones; musical glasses, musical stones;
- harmonica, sounding-board, rattle; tam-tam, zambomba.
- [Vibrating bars] reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box,
- harmonicon, xylophone.
- sordine, sordet; sourdine, sourdet; mute.
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- (iv) PERCEPTION OF SOUND
-
- #418. [Sense of sound.] Hearing. -- N. hearing &c. v.; audition,
- auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility.
- acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear,
- musical ear; ear for music.
- ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum,
- tympanum; ear trumpet, speaking trumpet; telephone, phonograph,
- gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon, microphone.
- hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper.
- auditory, audience.
- V. hear, overhear; hark, harken; list, listen; give an ear, lend an
- ear, bend an ear; catch a sound, prick up one's ears; give ear, give a
- hearing, give audience to.
- hang upon the lips of, be all ears, listen with both ears.
- become audible; meet the ear, fall upon the ear, catch the ear,
- reach the ear; be heard; ring in the ear &c. (resound) 4O8.
- Adj. hearing &c. v.; auditory, auricular, acoustic; phonic.
- Adv. arrectis auribus.
- Int. hark, hark ye! hear! list, listen! O yes! Oyez!
-
- #419. Deafness. -- N. deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity|;
- inaudibility, inaudibleness.
- V. be deaf &c. adj.; have no ear; shut one's ears, stop one's ears,
- close one's ears; turn a deaf ear to.
- render deaf, stun, deafen.
- Adj. deaf, earless, surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing; deaf-mute,
- stunned, deafened; stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an adder, deaf as a
- beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker.
- inaudible, out of hearing.
- Phr. hear no evil.
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- (6) Light
-
- (i) LIGHT IN GENERAL
-
-
- #420. Light.-- N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil;
- sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.
- day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; sun &c. (luminary) 432
- light; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday.
- glow &c. v.; glimmering &c. v.; glint; play of light, flood of light;
- phosphorescence, lambent flame.
- flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.
- spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling &c. v.; emication|, scintillation,
- flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration; flame &c. (fire) 382; lightning,
- levin, ignis fatuus, &c. (luminary) 423.
- luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle,
- brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor,
- fulgidity; dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency; luminousness &c. adj.;
- luminosity; lucidity; renitency|, nitency; radiance,, radiation;
- irradiation, illumination.
- actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography;
- photometer &c. 445.
- [Science of light] optics; photology, photometry; dioptrics,
- catoptrics.
- [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure,
- breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.
- reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
- V. shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare,
- flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate,
- coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright &c. adj.; reflect light, daze, dazzle,
- bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate.
- clear up, brighten.
- lighten, enlighten; levin; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon;
- give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw
- light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume,
- illumine, illuminate; relume, strike a light; kindle &c. (set fire to) 384.
- Adj. shining &c. v.; luminous, luminiferous; lucid, lucent, luculent,
- lucific, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent, nitid,
- lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny;
- glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide;
- cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured.
- gairish, garish; resplendent, transplendent; refulgent, effulgent;
- fulgid, fulgent; relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant,
- meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow. bright as silver; light as day, bright as
- day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday.
- actinic; photogenic+, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous.
- Phr. " a day for gods to stoop and men to soar " [Tennyson]; "dark
- with excessive bright" [Milton].
-
-
- #421. Darkness. -- N. darkness &c. adj.; blackness &c. (dark color)
- 431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk &c. (dimness) 422.
- Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night;
- midnight; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night;
- blind man's holiday; darkness visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable
- obscure; Erebus; "the jaws of darkness " [Midsummer Night's Dream]; "sable-
- vested night " [Milton].
- shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy.
- obscuration; adumbration, obumbration; obtenebration, offuscation|,
- caligation|; extinction; eclipse, total eclipse; gathering of the clouds.
- shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro &c. (light) 420.
- noctivagation.
- V. be dark &c. adj.
- darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow;
- eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate|; obumbrate, adumbrate; cast into the shade
- becloud, bedim, bedarken; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade,
- cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom,
- throw gloom, spread gloom.
- extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.
- Adj. dark, darksome, darkling; obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch
- dark, pitchy; caliginous; black &c. (in color) 431.
- sunless, lightless &c. (see sun, light, &c. 423); somber, dusky;
- unilluminated &c. (see illuminate &c. 420); nocturnal; dingy, lurid,
- gloomy; murky, murksome; shady, umbrageous; overcast &c. (dim) 422; cloudy
- &c. (opaque) 426; darkened; & c. v.
- dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus.
- benighted; noctivagant||, noctivagous||.
- Adv. in the dark, in the shade.
- Phr. " brief as the lightning in the collied night " [M. N. D.]; "
- eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature " [P. L.]; " the blackness of
- the noonday night " [Longfellow]; " the prayer of Ajax was for light "
- [Longfellow].
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- #422. Dimness. -- N. dimness &c. adj.; darkness &c. 421; paleness &c.
- (light color) 429.
- half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a
- shade; glimmer, gliming; nebulosity; cloud &c. 353; eclipse.
- aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time|;
- break of day, daybreak, dawn.
- moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine; starlight, owl'slight,
- candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.
- V. be dim, grow dim &c. adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower;
- fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet].
- render dim &c. adj.; dim, bedim, obscure.
- Adj. dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark
- 421.
- faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty &c. (opaque) 426; blear;
- muggy||, fuliginous; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular,
- muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c. v.
- pale &c. (colorless) 429; confused &c. (invisible) 447.
-
- #423. [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary. -- N. luminary;
- light &c. 420; flame &c. (fire) 382.
- spark, scintilla; phosphorescence.
- sun, orb of day, Phoebus, Apollo, Aurora; star, orb; meteor, falling
- star, shooting star; blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula, Aldebaran;
- constellation, galaxy; northern light, aurora borealis, ; southern lights,
- auroroa australis; zodiacal light; anthelion; day star, morning star;
- Lucifer; mock sun, parhelion; hosphor, phosphorus; sundog; Venus; polar
- lights.
- lightning; chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer
- lightning; phosphorus; ignis fatuus; Jack o'lantern, Friar's lantern; will-
- o'-the-wisp, firedrake, Fata Morgana.
- glowworm, firefly.
- [Artificial light] gas; gas light, lime light, electric light;lamp;
- lantern, lanthorn; dark lantern, bull's-eye; candle, bougie, taper,
- rushlight; oil &c. (grease) 356; wick, burner; Argand, moderator, duplex;
- torch, flambeau, link, brand; gaselier, chandelier, electrolier,
- candelabrum, girandole, sconce, luster, candlestick.
- firework, fizgig; pyrotechnics; rocket, lighthouse &c. (signal) 550.
- V. illuminate &c. (light) 420.
- Adj. self-luminous; phosphoric, phosphorescent; radiant &c. (light)
- 420.
- Phr. " blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels "
- [Longfellow]; " the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky " [Campbell];
- " the planets in their station list'ning stood " [Paradise Lost]; " the
- Scriptures of the skies " [Bailey]; " that orbed continent, the fire that
- severs day from night " [Twelfth Night].
-
-
- #424. Shade. -- N. shade; awning &c. (cover) 223; parasol, sunshade,
- umbrella; chick; portibre; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil,
- mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds.
- umbrage, glade; shadow &c. 421.
- V. draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil &c. v.;
- cast a shadow &c. (darken) 421.
- Adj. shady, umbrageous.
- Phr. " welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail " [Thomson]
-
-
- #425. Transparency. -- N. transparence, transparency; clarity;
- translucence, translucency; diaphaneity; lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity;
- fluorescence; transillumination, translumination. transparent medium,
- glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water.
- V. be transparent &c. adj.; transmit light.
- Adj. transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent,
- tralucent|, relucent; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal,
- vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline; hyaloid, vitreform.
-
- #426. Opacity.-- N. opacity; opaqueness &c. adj.
- film; cloud &c. 353.
- V. be opaque &c. adj.; obstruct the passage of light; obfuscate,
- offuscate|.
- Adj. opaque, impervious to light; adiaphanous; dim &c. 422; turbid,
- thick, muddy, opacous|, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy,
- vaporous, nubiferous, muggy|2 .
- smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.
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- #427. Semitransparency. -- N. semitransparency, opalescence,
- milkiness, pearliness; gauze, muslin; film; mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre;
- mist &c. (cloud) 353.
- Adj. semitransparent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous|,
- semiopaque; opalescent, opaline; pearly, milky; frosted, nacreous.
- V. opalesce.
-
-
- (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT
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-
- #428. Color. -- N. color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade,
- tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key.
- pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary
- color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color,
- secondary color, tertiary color. local color, coloring, keeping, tone,
- value, aerial perspective.
- [Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy;
- chromatism, chromatography||, chromatology; prism, spectroscope.
- pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium;
- mordant; oil paint &c. painting 556.
- V. color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain,
- illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint &c. (fine art) 556.
- Adj. colored &c. v.; colorific, tingent, tinctorial; chromatic,
- prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed;
- polychromatic; chromatogenous; tingible.
- bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded; rich, gorgeous; gay.
- gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy,
- flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.
- mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.
-
-
- #429. [Absence of color.] Achromatism. -- N. achromatism;
- decoloration, discoloration; pallor, pallidity; paleness &c. adj.;
- etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.
- V. lose color &c. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless &c. adj.; turn
- pale, pale.
- deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch,
- etiolate, wash out, tone down.
- Adj. uncolored &c. (see color &c. 428); colorless, achromatic,
- aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, tallow-
- faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy,
- ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored &c. v.
- light-colored, fair, blond; white &c. 430.
- pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale
- as a corpse.
-
-
- #430. Whiteness. -- N. whiteness &c. adj.; argent.
- albification, etiolation; lactescence.
- snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin,
- German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe,
- ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead.
- V. be white &c. adj.
- render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash,
- silver.
- Adj. white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky;
- hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent.
- whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched &c. v.; high in tone,
- light.
- white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as
- silver; like ivory &c. n.
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- #431. Blackness. -- N. blackness &c. adj.; darkness &c. (want of
- light). 421; swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro
- &c. 420.
- nigrification, infuscation.
- jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow.
- negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck,
- -nigger [U. S.]; coon [U. S.], sambo.
- [Pigments] lampblak, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing
- ink, printer's ink, Indian ink.
- V. be black &c. adj.; render -black &c. adj.
- blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch;
- smirch; darken &c. 421.
- Adj. black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous,
- jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky,
- dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye.
- black as jet &c. n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a
- tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight;
- nocturnal &c. (dark) 421; nigrescent; gray &c. 432; obscure &c. 421.
- Adv. in mourning.
-
- #432. Gray. -- N. gray &c. adj.; neutral tint, silver, pepper and
- salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille.
- [Pigments] Payne's gray; black &c. 431.
- Adj. gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber,
- sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous; silver, silvery,
- silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate-
- colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.
-
- #433. Brown. -- N. brown &c. adj. [Pigments] bister, ocher, sepia,
- Vandyke brown.
- V. render brown &c. adj.; tan, embrown, bronze.
- Adj. brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown,
- cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette,
- whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a
- berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki.
- sun-burnt; tanned &c. v.
-
- Primitive Colors
-
-
- #434. Redness. -- N. red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink,
- lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry; magenta, damask,
- purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth;
- gules.
- ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold.
- [Dyes and pigments] cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine; ruddle, madder;
- Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto; annatto, realgar,
- minium, red lead.
- redness &c. adj.; rubescence, rubicundity, rubification; erubescence,
- blush.
- V. be red, become red &c.adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden.
- render red &c. adj.; redden, rouge; rubify, rubricate; incarnadine.;
- ruddle.
- Adj. red &c. n., reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine,
- sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed; burnt; rubicund, rubiform; lurid,
- stammell blood red; russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious;
- rubineous, rubcate, rubricose, rufulous.
- rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame-
- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored,
- brick-colored, dust-colored.
- blushing &c. v.; erubescent; reddened &c. v.
- red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red
- as a lobster; warm, hot; foxy.
-
- Complementary Colors
-
- #435. Greenness. -- N. green &c. adj.; blue and yellow; vert.
- emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine;
- absinthe, crme de menthe.
- [Pigments] terre verte, verditer, verdine.
- greenness, verdure; viridity, viridescence; verditure.
- Adj. green, verdant; glaucous, olive; green as grass; verdurous.
- emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive
- green, bottle green.
- greenish; virent, virescent.
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- The author's classification of colors has been retained, though it
- does not entirely accord with the theories of modern science.
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- #436. Yellowness. -- N. yellow &c. adj.; or.
- [Piments] gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow
- king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin;
- xanthein, xanthin; zaofulvin. crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite; yolk.
- jaundice; London fog; yellowness &c. adj.; icterus; xantho-cyanopia,
- xanthopsia.
- Adj. yellow, aureate, golden, flavous|, citrine, fallow; fulvous,
- fulvid; sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic, xanthous;
- jaundiced- auricomous.
- gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, sulphur-
- colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored;
- xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous.
- yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot.
- warm, advancing.
-
-
- #437. Purple. -- N. purple &c. adj.; blue and red, bishop's purple;
- aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst; purpure; heliotrope.
- lividness, lividity.
- V. empurple.
- Adj. purple, violet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve;
- livid.
-
-
-
- #438. Blueness. -- N. blue &c. adj.; garter-blue; watchett|.
- [Pigments] ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen; Prussian blue,
- syenite blue; bice, indigo; zaffer.
- lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite.
- blueness, bluishness; bloom.
- Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored sky-dyed;
- cerulescent; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.
-
-
- #439. Orange. -- N. orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame &c. color,
- adj.
- [Pigments] ocher, Mars'orange, cadmium.
- cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia.
- V. gild, warm.
- Adj. orange; ochreous; orange-colored, gold-colored,
- flame-colored, copper-colored, brass-colored, apricot-colored; warm, hot,
- glowing.
-
- #440. Variegation. -- N. variegation; colors, dichroism, trichroism;
- iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae.
- spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly,
- tortoise shell; mackerel, mackerel sky; zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre,
- ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble.
- check, plaid, tartan, patchwork; marquetry-, parquetry; mosaic,
- tesserae, strigae; chessboard, checkers, chequers; harlequin; Joseph's
- coat; tricolor.
- V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, cheeker,
- chequer; bespeckle, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot,
- bespot; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
- Adj. variegated &c. v.; many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored,
- party-colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor, tricolor, versicolor;
- of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors; kaleidoscopic.
- iridescent; opaline, opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot,
- gorge de pigeon, chatoyant; irisated, pavonine.
- pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned,
- dappled, clouded, cymophanous.
- mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell &c. n.
- spotted, spotty; punctated, powdered; speckled &c. v.; freckled, flea-
- bitten, studded; flecked, fleckered; striated, barred, veined; brinded,
- brindled; tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered &c. v.; daedal;
- naevose, stipiform; strigose, striolate.
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- (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT
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- #441. Vision. - N. vision, sight, optics, eyesight.
- view, look, espial, glance, ken, coup d'oeil; glimpse, glint, peep;
- gaze, stare, leer; perlustration, contemplation; conspection|,
- conspectuity|; regard, survey;introspection; reconnaissance, speculation,
- watch, espionage, espionnage, autopsy; ocular inspection, ocular
- demonstration; sight-seeing.
- point of view; gazebo, loophole, belvedere, watchtower.
- field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon;
- commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope.
- visual organ, organ of vision; eye; naked eye, unassisted eye; retina,
- pupil, iris, cornea, white; optics, orbs; saucer eyes, goggle eyes,
- gooseberry eyes.
- short sight &c. 443; clear sight, sharp sight, quick sight, eagle
- sight, piercing sight, penetrating sight, clear glance, sharp glance,
- quick glance, eagle glance, piercing glance, penetrating glance, clear eye,
- sharp eye, quick eye, eagle eye, piercing eye, penetrating eye;
- perspicacity, discernment; catopsis.
- eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus.
- evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice [Mythical].
- V. see, behold, discern, perceive, have in sight, descry, sight, make
- out, discover, distinguish, recognize, spy, espy, ken; get a sight of, have
- a sight of, catch a sight of, get a glimpse of, have a glimpse of, catch a
- glimpse of; command a view of; witness, contemplate, speculate; cast the
- eyes on, set the eyes on; be a spectator &c. 444 of; look on &c. (be
- present) 186; see sights &c. (curiosity) 455; see at a glance &c.
- (intelligence) 498.
- look, view, eye; lift up the eyes, open one's eye; look at, look on,
- look upon, look over, look about one, look round; survey, scan, inspect;
- run the eye over, run the eye through; reconnoiter, glance round, glance
- on, glance over turn one's looks upon, bend one's looks upon; direct the
- eyes to, turn the eyes on, cast a glance.
- observe &c. (attend to) 457; watch &c. (care) 459; see with one's own
- eyes; watch for &c. (expect) 507; peep, peer, pry, take a peep; play at
- bopeep.
- look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's
- eyes; fix the eyes upon, rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat
- on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the eye, squint, gloat, look askance.
- Adj. seeing &c. v.; visual, ocular; optic, optical; ophthalmic.
- clear-eyedsighted &c. n.; eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-eyed,
- Argus-eyed.
- visible &c. 446.
- Adv. visibly &c. 446; in sight of, with one's eyes open at sight,
- at first sight, at a glance, at the first blush; prima facie.
- Int. look! &c. (attention) 457.
- Phr. the scales falling from one's eyes; " an eye like Mars to
- threaten or command " [Hamlet]; " her eyes are homes of silent prayer "
- [Tennyson]; " looking before and after " [Hamlet]; "thy rapt soul sitting
- in thine eyes " [Milton].
-
- #442. Blindness. - N. blindness, cecity, excecation|, amaurosis,
- cataract, ablepsy|, prestriction|; dim-sightedness &c. 443; ablepsia;
- Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena (" drop serene "), noctograph,
- teichopsia.
- V. be blind &c. adj.; not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged;
- grope in the dark.
- not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert
- the eyes; look another way; wink &c. (limited vision) 443; shut the eyes
- to, be blind to, wink at, blink at.
- render blind &c. adj.; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's
- eyes out; throw dust into one's eyes; jeter de la poudre aux yeux; screen
- from sight &c. (hide) 528.
- Adj. blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-
- blind, stark-blind; undiscerning; dimsighted &c. 443.
- blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a
- mole, blind as an owl; wall-eyed.
- blinded &c. v.
- Adv. blindly, blindfold; darkly.
- Phr. " O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton].
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- #443. [Imperfect vision.] Dimsightedness. [Fallacies of vision.] -- N.
- dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight,
- double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c.;
- purblindness, lippitude; myopia, presbyopia; confusion of vision;
- astigmatism; color blindness, chromato-pseudo-blepsis, Daltonism;
- nyctalopia; strabismus, strabism, squint; blearedness, day blindness,
- hemeralopia, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia; cast in the eye, swivel
- eye, goggleeyes; obliquity of vision.
- winking &c. v.; nictitation; blinkard, albino.
- dizziness, swimming, scotomy; cataract; ophthalmia.
- [Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c. (hider) 530.
- [Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus; refraction, distortion,
- illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage,
- looming, phasma|; phantasm, phantasma, phantom; vision; specter,
- apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423 specter of the Brocken
- magic mirror; magic lantern &c. (show) 448; mirror lens &c. (instrument)
- 445.
- V. be dimsighted &c. n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a
- mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see
- through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant, askant
- askance; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate.
- dazzle, loom.
- Adj. dim-sighted &c. n.; myopic, presbyopic; astigmatic moon-eyed,
- mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one
- eye, monoculous; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole-eyed;
- dichroic.
- blind as a bat &c. (blind) 442; winking &c. v.
-
-
- #444. Spectator. -- N. spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on,
- onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by; sightseer; rubberneck
- , rubbernecker * [U. S.].
- spy; sentinel &c. (warning) 668.
- V. witness, behold &c. (see) 441; look on &c. (be present) 186;
- rubber *, rubberneck *[U.S.]
-
-
- #445. Optical Instruments. -- N. optical instruments; lens, meniscus,
- magnifier; microscope, megascope, tienoscope.
- spectacles, specs[coll.] ,glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass,
- pince-nez.
- periscopic lens; telescope, glass, lorgnette; spyglass, opera glass,
- binocular, binoculars, field glass; burning glass, convex lens.
- mirror, reflector, speculum; looking-glass, pier-glass, cheval-glass.
- prism; camera lucida, camera obscura; magic lantern &c. (show) 448;
- stereopticon; chromatrope, thaumatrope; stereoscope, pseudoscope,
- polyscope, kaleidoscope.
- photometer, eriometer, actinometer, lucimeter, radiometer;
- abdominoscope, gastroscope, helioscope, polariscope, polemoscope,
- spectroscope.
- abdominoscopy; gastroscopy; microscopy, microscopist.
-
- #446. Visibility. -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness,
- distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity, conspicuousness; appearance &c. 448;
- bassetting; exposure; manifestation &c. 525; ocular proof, ocular evidence,
- ocular demonstration; field of view &c. (vision) 441; periscopism.
- V. be become visible &c. adj.; appear, open to the view; meet the eye,
- catch the eye; basset; present itself, show manifest itself, produce
- itself, discover itself, reveal itself , expose itself, betray itself;
- stand forth, stand out; materialize; show; arise; peep out, peer out, crop
- out; start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up; glimmer, loom; glare;
- burst forth; burst upon the view, burst upon the sight; heave in sight;
- come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward; see the
- light of day; break through the clouds; make its appearance, show its face,
- appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for
- itself &c. (manifest) 525; attract the attention &c. 457; reappear; live in
- a glass house.
- expose to view &c. 525.
- Adj. visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent; in
- view, in full view, in sight; exposed to view, en vidence; unclouded.
- obvious &c. (manifest) 525; plain, clear, distinct, definite; well
- defined, well marked; in focus; recognizable, palpable, autoptical;
- glaring, staring, conspicuous; stereoscopic; in bold, in strong relief.
- periscopic, panoramic.
- before one's eyes, under one's eyes; before one, vue d'oeil, in
- one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus.
- Adv. visibly &c. adj.; in sight of; before one's eyes &c. adj.; veluti
- in speculum.
-
- #447. Invisibility. -- N. invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance,
- imperceptibility; indistinctness &c. adj.; mystery, delitescence.
- concealment &c. 528; latency &c. 526.
- V. be invisible &c. adj.; be hidden &c. (hide) 528; lurk &c. (lie
- hidden) 526; escape notice.
- render invisible &c. adj.; conceal &c. 528; put out of sight.
- not see &c. (be blind) 442; lose sight of.
- Adj. invisible, imperceptible; undiscernible, indiscernible;
- unapparent, non-apparent; out of sight, not in sight; perte de vue;
- behind the scenes, behind the curtain; viewless, sightless; inconspicuous,
- unconspicuous; unseen &c. (see see &c. 441); covert &c. (latent) 526;
- eclipsed, under an eclipse.
- dim &c. (faint) 422; mysterious, dark, obscure, confused; indistinct,
- inguishable; shadowy, indefinite, undefined; ill-defined, ill-marked;
- blurred, fuzzy, out of focus; misty &c. (opaque) 426; veiled &c.
- (concealed) 528; delitescent.
- Phr. " full many a flower is born to blush unseen " [Gray).
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-
- #448. Appearance. -- N. appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle,
- show, premonstration|, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil; lookout, outlook,
- prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture,
- tableau; display, exposure, mise en sc
- ne; rising of the curtain.
- phantasm, phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443.
- pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres
- chinoises; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph,
- cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama; coup
- de thtre, jeu de thtre; pageantry &c. (ostentation) 882; insignia &c.
- (indication) 550. aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming; shape &c. (form)
- 240; guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage,
- port, demeanor; presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing; point
- of view, light.
- lineament feature trait lines; outline, outside; contour, face,
- countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz,. cast of countenance, profile,
- tournure, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy; outside &c. 220.
- V. appear; be visible, become visible &c. 446; seem, look, show;
- present the appearance of, wear the appearance of, carry the appearance of,
- have the appearance of, bear the appearance of, exhibit the appearance of,
- take the appearance of, take on the appearance of, assume the appearance,
- present the semblance of, wear the semblance of, carry the semblance of,
- have the semblance of, bear the semblance of, exhibit the semblance of,
- take the semblance of, take on the semblance of, assume the semblance of;
- look like; cut a figure, figure; present to the view; show &c. (make
- manifest) 525.
- Adj. apparent, seeming, ostensible; on view.
- Adv. apparently; to all seeming, to all appearance; ostensibly,
- seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie; at the first blush,
- at first sight; in the eyes of; to the eye.
- Phr. editio princeps.
-
-
- #449. Disappearance. -- N. disappearance, evanescence, eclipse,
- occultation.
- departure &c. 293; exit; vanishing point; dissolving views.
- V. disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt; be
- gone &c. adj.; leave no trace, leave " not a rack behind " [Tempest]; go
- off the stage &c. (depart) 293; suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse;
- retire from sight; be lost to view, pass out of sight.
- lose sight of.
- efface &c. 552.
- Adj. disappearing &c. v.; evanescent; missing, lost; lost to sight,
- lost to view; gone.
- Int. vanish! disappear! avaunt! &c. (ejection) 297.
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- CLASS IV
- WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES
-
- DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS
- Section I. OPERATIONS OF INTELLECT IN GENERAL
-
-
- #450. Intellect. -- N. intelleet, mind, understanding, reason,
- thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties,
- discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties;
- faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence,
- intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception,
- judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive
- powers, intellectual powers; wit &c. 498; ability &c. (skill) 698; wisdom
- &c. 498; Vernunft, Verstand.
- soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia
- mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core; the Absolute, psyche,
- subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
- organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium, sensory, brain; head,
- headpiece; pate, noddle, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium,
- brainpan, sconce, upper story.
- [Science of mind] metaphysics; psychics, psychology; ideology; mental
- philosophy, moral philosophy; philosophy of the mind; pneumatology,
- phrenology; craniology, cranioscopy.
- ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality &c.
- 317; universal concept, universal conception.
- metaphysician, psychologist &c.
- V. note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of,
- be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate &c. (think) 451; fancy &c.
- (imagine) 515.
- Adj. [Relating to intellect] intelleetual, mental, rational,
- subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual; ghostly; psychical,
- psychological; cerebral; animastic; brainy; hyperphysical, superphysical;
- subconscious, subliminal.
- immaterial &c. 317; endowed with reason.
- Adv. in petto.
- Phr. ens rationis; frons est animi janua Cicero]; locos y ni$os dicen
- la verdad; mens sola loco non exulat [Ovid]; " my mind is my kingdom "
- [Campbell]; " stern men with empires in their brains " [Lowell]; " the
- mind, the music breathing from her face " [Byron]; " thou living ray of
- intellectual Fire " [Falconer].
-
- #450a. Absence or want of Intellect.-- N. absence of intellect, want
- of intellect &c. 450; imbecility &c. 499.: brutality, brute force.
- instinct, brute instinct.
- Adj. unendowed with reason, void of reason.
-
- #451. Thought. -- N. thought; exercitation of the intellect, exercise
- of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration,
- meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head
- work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application
- &c. (attention) 457.
- abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study &c.
- (inattention) 458; reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the
- mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-
- consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy,
- philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the
- Porch.
- association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train
- of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas,
- flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas.
- after thought, mature thought; reconsideration, second thoughts;
- retrospection &c. (memory) 505; excogitation; examination &c. (inquiry) 461
- invention &c. (imagination) 515.
- thoughtfulness &c. adj.
- V. think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow
- thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate,
- ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study;
- bend -, apply mind &c. (attend) 457; digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh,
- perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy &c. (imagine) 515; trow.
- take into consideration; take counsel &c. (be advised) 695; commune
- with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind,
- turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon;
- take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow.
- rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat
- one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits
- to work.
- harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea
- &c. 453; take into one's head; bear in mind; reconsider.
- occur; present itself, suggest itself; come into one's head, get into
- one's head; strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one s
- head; enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind,
- flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be
- uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind; have in one's mind.
- make an impression; sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind;
- engross the thoughts.
- Adj. thinking &c. v.; thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective,
- museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious,
- sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical.
- lost in thought &c. (inattentive) 458; deep musing &c. (intent) 457.
- in the mind, under consideration.
- Adv. all things considered.
- Phr. the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head
- turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "
- [Richard III].; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin.; " fresh-pluckt
- from bowers of never-failing thought " [O. Meredith]; " go speed the stars
- of Thought "[Emerson]; in maiden meditation fancy-free " [M. N. D.]; " so
- sweet is zealous contemplation " [Richard III]; " the power of thought is
- the magic of the Mind " [Byron]; " those that think must govern those that
- toil " [Goldsmith]; " thought is parent of the deed " [Carlyle]; " thoughts
- in attitudes imperious " [Longfellowl; " thoughts that breathe and words
- that burn " [Gray]; vivere est cogitare [Cicero]; Volk der Dichter und
- Denker.
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- #452. [Absence or want of thought.] Incogitancy. -- N. incogitancy,
- vacancy, inunderstanding; fatuity &c. 499; thoughtlessness &c.
- (inattention) 458; vacuity.
- V. not think &c. 451; not think of; dismiss from the mind, dismiss
- from the thoughts &c. 451.
- indulge in reverie &c. (be inattentive) 458.
- put away thought; unbend the mind, relax the mind, divert the mind.
- Adj. vacant, unintellectual, unideal, unoccupied, unthinking,
- inconsiderate, thoughtless; absent &c. (inattentive) 458; diverted;
- irrational &c. 499; narrowminded &c. 481.
- unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered; off one's mind; incogitable,
- not to be thought of.
- Phr. absence d'esprit; pabulum pictura pascit inani.
-
-
- #453. [Object of thought.] Idea. -- N. idea, notion, conception,
- thought, apprehension, impression, pereption, image, <gr/eidolon/gr>,
- sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea;
- archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception;
- image in the mind, regulative principle.
- view &c. (opinion) 484; theory &c. 514; conceit, fancy; phantasy &c.
- (imagination) 515.point of view &c. (aspect) 448; field of view.
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- #454. [Subject of thought, <gr/noemata/gr>] Topic. -- N. subject of
- thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum.
- subject, subject matter; matter, theme, <gr/noemata/gr>, topic, what
- it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument;
- motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field
- of inquiry; moot point, problem &c. (question) 461.
- V. float in the mind , pass in the mind &c. 451.
- Adj. thought of; uppermost in the mind; in petto.
- Adv. under consideration; in question, in the mind; on foot, on the
- carpet, on the docket, on the tapis; relative to &c. 9.
-
-
- Section II. PRECURSORY CONDITIONS AND OPERATIONS
-
-
- #455. [The desire of knowledge.] Curiosity. -- N. interest, thirst for
- knowledge; curiosity, curiousness; inquiring mind; inquisitiveness.
- sightseer, quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip &c.
- (news) 532; rubberneek* [U. S.].
- V. be curious &c. adj.; take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the
- ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck*[U . S.].
- Adj. curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious;
- inquiring &c. 461; prying; inquisitorial; agape &c. (expectant) 507.
- Phr. what's the matter? what next?
-
- #456. [Absence of curiosity.] Incuriosity. -- N. incuriosity,
- incuriousness &c. adj.; insouciance &c. 866; indifference.
- V. be incurious &c. adj.; have no curiosity &c. 455; take no interest
- in &c. 823; mind one's own business.
- Adj. incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive &c. 823;
- uninterested.
-
- #457. Attention. -- N. attention; mindfulness &c. adj.; intentness,
- intentiveness; alertness; thought &c. 451; advertence, advertency;
- observance, observation; consideration, reflection, perpension|; heed;
- heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard &c. v.; circumspection, &c.
- (care) 459; study, scrutiny inspection, introspection; revision, revisal.
- active application, diligent application, exclusive application,
- minute application, close application, intense application, deep
- application, profound application, abstract application, labored
- application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention,
- exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention,
- deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention,
- deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought,
- minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound
- thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active
- study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense
- study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study,
- deliberate study.
- minuteness, attention to detail.
- absorption of mind &c. (abstraction) 458.
- indication, calling attention to &c. v.
- V. be attentive &c. adj.; attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view,
- remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention
- to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble
- one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with;
- contemplate &c. (think of) 451; look at, look to, look after, look into,
- look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to,
- direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to,
- apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention
- to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to,
- give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind;
- take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view;
- have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make
- note of, take note of; note.
- examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes
- over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into,
- perstringe|; skim &c. (neglect) 460; take a cursory view of.
- examine, examine closely, examine intently; scan, scrutinize,
- consider; give one's mind to, bend one's mind to; overhaul, revise, pore
- over; inspect, review, pass under review; take stock of; fix the eye on,
- rivet attention on, fix attention on, devote the eye to, fix the mind on,
- devote the thoughts to; hear out, think out; mind one's business.
- revert to; watch &c. (expect) 507, (take care of) 459; hearken to,
- listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come
- to the point.
- meet with attention; fall under one's notice, fall under one's
- observation; be under consideration &c. (topic) 454.
- catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention,
- awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the
- attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention,
- engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest
- the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the
- attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the
- mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind
- excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest
- the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind,
- catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the
- thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts
- excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the
- thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts,
- absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be
- uppermost in the mind.
- bring under one's notice; point out, point to, point at, point the
- finger at; lay the finger on, indigitate|, indicate; direct attention to,
- call attention to; show; put a mark &c. (sign) 550 upon; call soldiers to "
- attention "; bring forward &c. (make manifest) 525.
- Adj. attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to;
- observing &c. v.; alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied
- with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt; breathless;
- preoccupied &c. (inattentive) 458; watchful &c. (careful) 459;. breathless,
- undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch &c. (expectant) 507.
- steadfast.
- Int. see! look, look here, look you, look to it! mark! lo! behold!
- soho! hark, hark ye! mind! halloo! observe! lo and behold! attention! nota
- bene; N.B.; I'd have you to know; notice! O yes! Oyez! dekko! ecco! yoho!
- Phr. this is to give notice, these are to give notice; dictum sapienti
- sat est; finem respice.
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- #458. Inattention. -- N. inattention, inconsideration;
- inconsiderateness &c. adj.; oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency,
- nonobservance, disregard.
- supineness &c. (inactivity) 683; tourderie, want of thought;
- heedlessnes &c. (neglect) 460; insouciance &c. (indifference) 866.
- abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation,
- distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction.
- V. be inattentive &c. adj.; overlook, disregard; pass by &c. (neglect)
- 460 not observe &c. 457; think little of.
- close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to; pay no attention to; dismiss
- from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's
- thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from
- one's mind; drop the subject, think no more of; set aside, turn aside, put
- aside; turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn
- one's back upon.
- abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie.
- escape notice, escape attention; come in at one ear and go out at the
- other; forget &c. (have no remembrance) 506.
- call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the
- attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head;
- disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider,
- fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.
- Adj. inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, unheeding, undiscerning;
- inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless &c. (indifferent)
- 866; blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-
- brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflecting, cervel,
- inconsiderate, offhand, thoughtless, dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy
- as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless , careless
- &c. (neglectful) 460.
- absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought,
- wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things,
- musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed &c. (attentive) 457; in a
- reverie &c. n.; off one's guard &c. (inexpectant) 508; napping; dreamy;
- caught napping.
- disconcerted, put out &c. v.
- Adv. inattentively, inadvertently &c. adj.; per incuriam, sub
- silentio.
- Int. stand at ease, stand easy!
- Phr. the attention wanders; one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's
- wits gone a bird's nesting; it never entered into one's head; the mind
- running on other things; one's thoughts being elsewhere; had it been a bear
- it would have bitten you.
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-
- #459. Care. - [Vigilance.] -- N. care, solicitude, heed; heedfulness
- &c. adj.; scruple &c. (conscientiousness) 939.
- watchfulness &c. adj.; vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch,
- vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre.
- alertness &c. (activity) 682; attention &c. 457; prudence &c.,
- circumspection &c. (caution) 864; anxiety; forethought &c. 510; precaution
- &c. (preparation) 673; tidiness &c. (order) 58, (cleanliness) 652; accuracy
- &c. (exactness) 494; minuteness, attention to detail.
- V. be careful &c. adj.; reck; take care &c. (be cautious) 864; pay
- attention to &c. 457; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see after;
- keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize, play gooseberry;
- keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch; keep in
- sight, keep in view; mind, mind on'e business.
- look sharp, look about one; look with one's own eyes; keep a good
- lookout, keep a sharp lookout; have all one's wits about one, have all
- one's eyes about one; watch for &c. (expect) 507; keep one's eyes open,
- have the eyes open, sleep with one's eye open.
- Adj. careful regardful, heedful; taking care &c. v.; particular;
- prudent &c. (cautious) 864; considerate; thoughtful &c. (deliberative) 451;
- provident &c. (prepared) 673; alert &c. (active) 682; sure-footed.
- guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre, on the alert, on watch, on
- the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful;
- Argus-eyed; wide awake &c. (intelligent) 498; on the watch for (expectant)
- 507.
- tidy &c. (orderly) 58, (clean) 652; accurate &c. (exact) 494;
- scrupulous &c. (conscientious) 939; cavendo tutus &c. (safe) 664.
- Adv. carefully &c. adj.; with care, gingerly.
- Phr. quis custodiet istos custodes? "care will kill a cat" [Wither];
- ni bebas aqua que no veas; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!" [Henry
- IV]; "the incessant care and labor of his mind" [Henry IV]
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- #460. Neglect. -- N. neglect; carelessness &c. adj.; trifling &c. v.;
- negligence; omission, laches, default; supineness &c. (inactivity) 683;
- inattention &c. 458; nonchalance &c. (insensibility) 823; imprudence,
- recklessness &c. 863; slovenliness &c. (disorder) 59, (dirt) 653;
- improvidence &c. 674; noncompletion &c. 730; inexactness &c. (error) 495.
- paralelpsis [in rhetoric].
- trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber.
- V. be negligent &c. adj.; take no care of &c. (take care of &c. 459);
- neglect; let slip,let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep
- out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of.
- overloook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at,
- connive at;gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account
- of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller.
- scamp; trifle, fribble; do by halves; cut; slight &c. (despise) 930;
- play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer ; take a
- cursory view of &c. 457.
- slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip,
- jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink;
- ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out
- of one's calculation; not attend to &c. 457, not mind; not trouble oneself
- about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget &c.
- 506; be caught napping &c. (not expect) 508; leave a loose thread; let the
- grass grow under one's feet.
- render neglectful &c. adj.; put off one's guard, throw off one's
- guard.
- Adj. neglecting &c. v.; unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless,
- careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss.
- inconsiderate; uncircumspect, incircumspect; off one's guard; unwary,
- unwatchful, unguarded; offhand.
- supine &c. (inactive) 683; inattentive &c. 458; insouciant &c.
- (indifferent) 823; imprudent, reckless&c. 863; slovenly &c. (disorderly)
- 59, (dirty) 653; inexact &c. (erroneous) 495; improvident &c. 674.
- neglected &c. v.; unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen,
- unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of,
- unregarded, uremarked, unmissed; shunted, shelved.
- unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted,
- unexplored.
- abandoned; buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel.
- Adv. negligently &c. adj.; hand over head, anyhow; in an unguarded
- moment &c. (unexpectedly) 508; per incuriam.
- Int. never mind, no matter, let it pass.
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- #461 Inquiry [Subject of Inquiry. Question] -- N. inquiry; request
- &c. 765; search, research, quest, pursuit &c. 622.
- examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation|;
- perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation|; inquest, inquisition;
- exploration; exploitation, ventilation.
- sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction;
- Baconian method.
- strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry;
- narrow search, strict search; study &c. (consideration) 451.
- scire facias, ad referendum; trial.
- questioning &c. v.; interrogation,
- interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination,
- catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy; leading question;
- discussion &c. (reasoning) 476.
- reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying &c. v.; espionage, espionnage;
- domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of Diogenes.
- question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism;
- subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in
- dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of
- contention &c. (discord) 713; plain question, fair question, open question;
- enigma &c. (secret) 533; knotty point &c. (difficulty) 704; quodlibet;
- threshold of an inquiry.
- inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner,
- catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer; analyst; quidnunc &c.
- (curiosity) 455.
- V. make inquiry &c. n.; inquire, seek, search; look for, look about
- for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack,
- pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy,
- overhaul.
- scratch the head, slap the forehead.
- look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry
- into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; hunt out, fish out, ferret out;
- unearth; leave no stone unturned.
- seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace;
- follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue &c. 662; beat up one's quarters;
- fish for; feel for &c. (experiment) 463.
- investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an
- inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry,
- prosecute an inquiry &c. n.; look at, look into; preexamine; discuss,
- canvass, agitate.
- examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into, dive into, delve into,
- go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom; probe to the bottom,
- probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse,
- resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all its phases;
- thresh out.
- bring in question, subject to examination; put to the proof &c.
- (experiment) 463; audit, tax, pass in review; take into consideration &c.
- (think over) 451; take counsel &c. 695.
- ask, question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the
- question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question,
- raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the
- question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a
- question.
- put to the question, interrogate, catechize, pump; cross-question,
- cross-examine; dodge; require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the
- brains of; feel the pulse.
- be in question &c. adj.; undergo examination.
- Adj. inquiry &c. v.; inquisitive &c. (curious) 455; requisitive|,
- requisitory; catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic; in search of, in quest
- of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic; all searching.
- undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue,
- in course of inquiry; under discussion, uneder consideration, under
- investigation &c. n.; Sub judice, moot, proposed; doubtful &c. (uncertain)
- 475.
- Adv. what? why? wherefore? whence? whither? where? quaere? how comes
- it, how happens it, how is it? what is the reason? what's the matter,
- what's in the wind? what on earth? when? who? nicht wahr?
-
-
- #462. Answer. -- N. answer, response, reply, replication, riposte,
- rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript,
- rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter
- statement.
- discovery &c. 480a; solution &c. (explanation) 522; rationale &c.
- (cause) 153; clue &c. (indication) 550.
- Oedipus; oracle &c. 513; return &c. (record) 551.
- V. answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin; give for answer,
- return for answer; acknowledge, echo.
- explain &c. (interpret) 522; solve &c. (unriddle) 522; discover &c.
- 480a; fathom, hunt out &c. (inquire) 461; satisfy, set at rest, determine.
- Adj. answering &c. v.; responsive, respondent; conclusive.
- Adv. because &c. (cause) 153; on the scent, on the right scent.
- Int. eureka!
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- #463. Experiment. -- N. experiment; essay &c. (attempt) 675; analysis
- &c. (investigation) 461; trial, tentative method, ttonnement.
- verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, criterion,
- diagnostic, test, crucial test.
- crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix; assay, ordeal; ring;
- curcuma paper, turmeric paper.
- empiricism, rule of thumb.
- feeler; pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine; scout; straw
- to show the wind.
- speculation, random shot, leap in the dark.
- analyzer, analyst; adventurer; experimenter, experimentist,
- experimentalist.
- V. experiment; essay &c. (endeavor) 675; try, assay; make an
- experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to
- trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test,
- submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch,
- practice upon, try one's strength.
- grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, ttonner, aller
- ttons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a pilot balloon; see
- how the land lies, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the
- pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast
- one's net, beat the bushes.
- try one's fortune &c. (adventure) 675; explore &c. (inquire) 461.
- Adj. experimental, empirical.
- probative, probatory, probationary, provisional; analytic, docimastic;
- tentative.
- Adv. under probation, on one's trial.
-
- #464. Comparison. -- N. comparison, collation, contrast;
- identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate.
- simile, simililitude, analogy (similarity) 17; allegory &c. (metaphor)
- 521.
- V. compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side &c.
- (near) 197; set against one another, pit against one another; contrast,
- balance.
- identify, draw a parallel, parallel.
- compare notes; institute a comparison; parva componere magnis[Lat]..
- Adj. comparative; metaphorical &c. 521.
- compared with &c. v.; comparable; judged by comparison.
- Adv. relatively &c. (relation) 9; as compared with &c. v.
- Phr. comparisons are odious; " comparisons are odorous " [Much Ado
- about Nothing].
-
- #465. [results of comparison. 1] Discrimination. -- N. discrimination,
- distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception;
- perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation &c. 466;
- nicety, refinement; taste &c. 850; critique, judgment; tact; discernment
- &c. (intelligence) 498; acuteness, penetration; nuances.
- dope*, past performances.
- V. discriminate, distinguish, severalize; separate; draw the line,
- sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat;
- split hairs.
- estimate &c. (measure) 466; know which is which, know what is what,
- know " a hawk from a handsaw [Hamlet].
- take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow
- due weight to; weigh carefully.
- Adj. discriminating &c. v.; dioristic, discriminative, distinctive;
- nice.
- Phr. il y a fagots et fagots; rem acu tetigisti; la critique est aise
- et l'art est difficile.
-
- #465a. [results of comparison. 2] Indiscrimination. -- N.
- indiscrimination; indistinctness, indistinction; uncertainty &c. (doubt)
- 475.
- V. not discriminate &c. 465; overlook &c. (neglect) 460 a distinction:
- confound, confuse.
- Adj. indiscriminate; undistinguished, undistinguishable; unmeasured;
- promiscuous, undiscriminating.
- Phr. valeat quantum valere potest[Lat.].
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- #466. Measurement. -- N. measurement, admeasurement, mensuration,
- survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation;
- dead reckoning, reckoning &c. (numeration) 85; gauging &c. v.; horse power.
- metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic.
- measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers;
- gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo.
- flood mark, high water mark; index &c. 550.
- scale; graduation, graduated scale; nonius; vernier &c. (minuteness)
- 193 bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer,
- ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer,
- radiometer, refractometer, respiro, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter,
- udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer (heat &c. 382),
- barometer (air &c. 338), anemometer (wind 349), dynamometer, goniometer
- (angle 244) meter; landmark &c. (limit) 233; balance, scale &c. (weight)
- 319; marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage.
- coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and
- longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth.
- geometry, stereometry, hypsometry; metage; surveying, land surveying;
- geodesy, geodetics, geodesia; orthometry, altimetry; cadastre.
- astrolabe, armillary sphere.
- land surveyor; geometer.
- V. measure, mete; value, assess, rate, appraise, estimate, form an
- estimate, set a value on; appreciate; standardize.
- span, pace step; apply the compass &c. n.; gauge, plumb, probe, sound,
- fathom; heave the log, heave the lead; survey.
- take an average &c. 29; graduate.
- Adj. measuring &c. v.; metric , metrical;
- measurable, geodetical.
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- Section Ill. MATERIALS FOR REASONING
-
-
- #467. Evidence [On one side.] -- N. evidence; facts, premises, data,
- praecognita, grounds.
- indication &c. 550; criterion &c. (test) 463.
- testimony, testification; attestation; deposition &c. (affirmation)
- 535; examination.
- admission &c. (assent) 488; authority, warrant, credential, diploma,
- voucher, certificate, doquet, docket; testamur; record &c. 551; document;
- pi
- ce justificative; deed, warranty &c. (security) 771; signature, seal &c.
- (identification) 550; exhibit.
- witness, indicator; eyewitness, earwitness; deponent; sponsor;
- cojuror.
- oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external
- evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence,
- circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence,
- presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof &c.
- (demonstration) 478; evidence in chief.
- secondary evidence; confirmation, corroboration, support; ratification
- &c. (assent) 488; authentication; compurgation, wager of law,
- comprobation|.
- citation, reference.
-
- V. be evidence &c. n.; evince, show, betoken, tell of; indicate &c.
- (denote) 550; imply, involve, argue, bespeak, breathe.
- have weight, carry weight; tell, speak volumes; speak for itself &c.
- (manifest) 525.
- rest upon, depend upon; repose on.
- bear witness &c. n.; give evidence &c. n.; testify, depose, witness,
- vouch for; sign, seal, undersign, set one's hand and seal, sign and seal,
- deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest; acknowledge &c. (assent)
- 488.
- [provide conclusive evidence] make absolute, confirm, prove
- (demonstrate) 478.
- [add further evidence] indorse, countersign, corroborate, support,
- ratify, bear out, uphold, warrant.
- adduce, attest, cite, quote; refer to, appeal to; call, call to
- witness; bring forward, bring into court; allege, plead; produce witnesses,
- confront witnesses; collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up
- evidence.
- have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate,
- verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book.
- Adj. showing &c. v.; indicative, indicatory; deducible &c. 478;
- grounded on, founded on, based on; corroborative, confirmatory.
- Adv. by inference; according to, witness, a fortiori; still more,
- still less; raison de plus; in corroboration &c. n. of; valeat quantum;
- under seal, under one's hand and seal.
- Phr. dictum de dicto; mise en evidence[Fr.].
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-
- #468. [Evidence on the other side, on the other hand.] Counter
- Evidence. - N. counter evidence; evidence on the other side, evidence on
- the other hand; conflicting evidence; disproof, refutation &c. 479;
- negation &c. 536.
- plea &c. 617; vindication &c. 937 counter protest; "tu quoque"
- argument; other side of the shield, other side of the coin, reverse of the
- shield.
- V. countervail, oppose; rebut &c. (refute) 479; subvert &c. (destroy)
- 162; cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict &c. (deny) 536; tell another
- story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways;
- prove a negative.
- audire alteram partem.
- Adj. countervailing &c. v.; contradictory.
- unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.
- Adv. on the contrary, per contra.
-
- #469. Qualification. -- N. qualification, limitation, modification,
- coloring.
- allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating
- circumstances; mitigation.
- condition, proviso, exception; exemption; salvo, saving clause;
- discount &c. 813; restriction.
- V. qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new
- conditions, narrow, temper.
- allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account;
- modulate.
- take exception.
- Adj. qualifying &c. v.; conditional; exceptional &c. (unconformable)
- 83.
- hypothetical &c. (supposed) 514; contingent &c. (uncertain) 475.
- Adv. provided, provided always; if, unless, but, yet; according as;
- conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of &c.
- (theoretically) 514; with the understanding, even, although, though, for
- all that, after all, at all events.
- with grains of allowance, cum grano salis; exceptis excipiendis; wind
- and weather permitting; if possible &c. 470.
- subject to; with this proviso &c. n.
- Phr. "if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise".
-
- Degrees of Evidence
-
- #470. Possibility. -- N. possibility, potentiality; what may be, what
- is possible &c. adj.; compatibility &c. (agreement) 23.
- practicability, feasibility; practicableness &c. adj.
- contingency, chance &c. 156.
- V. be possible &c. adj.; stand a chance; admit of, bear.
- render possible &c. adj.; put in the way of.
- Adj. possible; in the cards, on the dice; in posse, within the bounds
- of possibility, conceivable, credible; compatible &c. 23; likely.
- practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within
- measurable distance; accessible, superable, surmountable; attainable,
- obtainable; contingent &c. (doubtful) 475, (effect) 154.
- Adv. possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure;
- maybe, may be, haply, mayhap.
- if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo volente, D.
- V. ; as luck may have it.
- Phr. misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent; " the glories of the
- Possible are ours " [B. Taylor].
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- #471. Impossibility. -- N. impossibility &c. adj.; what cannot, what
- can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness &c. 859.
- V. be impossible &c. adj.; have no chance whatever.
- attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white;
- skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without
- straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the
- air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set
- the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep,
- rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once.
- Adj. impossible; not possible &c. 470; absurd, contrary to reason;
- unlikely; unreasonable &c. 477; incredible &c. 485; beyond the bounds of
- reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility;
- from which reason recoils; visionary; inconceivable &c. (improbable) 473;
- prodigious &c. (wonderful) 870; unimaginable, inimaginable; unthinkable.
- impracticable unachievable; unfeasible, infeasible; insuperable;
- unsurmountable, insurmountable; unattainable, unobtainable; out of reach,
- out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond control;
- desperate &c. (hopeless) 859; incompatible &c. 24; inaccessible,
- uncomeatable, impassable, impervious, innavigable, inextricable; self-
- contradictory.
- out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond
- one's reach, beyond one's grasp; too much for; ultra crepidam.
- Phr. the grapes are sour; non possumus; non nostrum tantas componere
- lites [Vergil]; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans
- une botte de foin [Fr.]; il a le mer boire.
-
- #472. Probability. -- N. probability, likelihood; credibleness;
- likeliness &c. adj.;
- vraitsemblance, verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance, show
- of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence;
- credibility.
- reasonable chance, fair chance, good chance, favorable chance,
- reasonable prospect, fair prospect, good prospect, favorable prospect;
- prospect, wellgrounded hope; chance &c. 156.
- V. be probable &c. adj.; give color to, lend color to; point to; imply
- &c. (evidence) 467; bid fair &c. (promise) 511; stand fair for; stand a
- good chance, run a good chance.
- think likely, dare say, flatter oneself; expect &c. 507; count upon
- &c. (believe) 484.
- Adj. probable, likely, hopeful, to be expected, in a fair way.
- plausible, specious, ostensible, colorable, ben trovato, well-founded,
- reasonable, credible, easy of belief, presumable, presumptive, apparent.
- Adv. probably &c. adj.; belike; in all probability, in all likelihood;
- very likely, most likely; like enough; ten &c. to one; apparently,
- seemingly, according to every reasonable expectation; prim facie; to all
- appearance &c. (to the eye) 448.
- Phr. the chances, the odds are; appearances are in favor of, chances
- are in favor of; there is reason to believe, there is reason to think,
- there is reason to expect; I dare say; all Lombard Street to a China
- orange.
-
-
- #473. Improbability. -- N. improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable
- chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor
- chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds;
- incredibility &c. 485.
- V. be improbable &c. adj.; have a small chance &c. n.
- Adj. improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation.
- rare &c. (infrequent) 137; unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable,
- inimaginable; incredible &c. 485; more than doubtful.
- Phr. the chances are against; aquila non capit muscas; pedir peras pal
- olmo.
-
-
- #474. Certainty. -- N. certainty; necessity &c. 601; certitude,
- surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness &c.
- adj.; infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness,
- unquestionableness.
- gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata,
- ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire,
- bigot, opinionist, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit.
- fact; positive fact, matter of fact; fait accompli.
- V. be certain &c. adj.; stand to reason.
- render certain &c. adj.; insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure;
- determine, decide, set at rest, " make assurance double sure " [Macbeth];
- know &c. (believe) 484.
- dogmatize, lay down the law.
- Adj. certain, sure, assured &c. v.; solid, well-founded.
- unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear,
- unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.
- inevitable, unavoidable, avoidless; ineluctable.
- unerring, infallible; unchangeable &c. 150; to be depended on,
- trustworthy, reliable, bound.
- unimpeachable, undeniable, unquestionable; indisputable,
- incontestable, incontrovertible, indubitable; irrefutable &c. (proven) 478;
- conclusive, without power of appeal.
- indubious; without doubt, beyond a doubt, without a shade or shadow of
- doubt, without question, beyond question; past dispute; clear as day;
- beyond all question, beyond all dispute; undoubted, uncontested,
- unquestioned, undisputed; questionless, doubtless.
- authoritative, authentic, official.
- sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun.
- evident, self-evident, axiomatic; clear, clear as day, clear as the
- sun at noonday.
- bAdv. certainly &c. adj.; for certain, certes, sure, no doubt,
- doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto, sure enough, to be sure, of
- course, as a matter of course , a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth &c.
- (truly) 494; at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute,
- coute qu'il coute; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst;
- come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or
- shine.
- Phr. cela va sans dire; there is -no question, - not a shadow of
- doubt; the die is cast &c. (necessity) 601; " facts are stubborn things
- [Smollett].
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- #475. Uncertainty. -- N. uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness
- &c. adj.; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy|, dubitousness.
- hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma,
- bewilderment; timidity &c. (fear) 860; vacillation &c. 605; diaporesis,
- indetermination.
- vagueness &c. adj.; haze, fog; obscurity &c. (darkness) 421; ambiguity
- &c. (double meaning) 520; contingency, double contingency, possibility upon
- a possibility; open question &c. (question) 461; onus probandi; blind
- bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a
- haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.
- precariousness &c. adj.; fallibility.
- V. be uncertain &c. adj.; wonder whether.
- lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way.
- not know what to make of &c. (unintelligibility) 519, not know which
- way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels;
- float in a sea of doubt,hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head;
- muddle one's brains.
- render uncertain &c. adj.; put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass;
- confuse, confound; bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the
- scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces; keep in suspense.
- doubt &c. (disbelieve) 485; hang in the balance, tremble in the
- balance; depend.
- Adj. uncertain; casual; random &c. (aimless) 621; changeable &c. 149.
- doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in
- suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question &c. (inquiry)
- 461.
- vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined,
- undefinable; confused &c. (indistinct) 447; mystic, oracular; dazed.
- perplexing &c. v.; enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical,
- hypothetical; experimental &c. 463.
- fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable,
- disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy.
- contingent, contingent on, dependent on; subject to; dependent on
- circumstanees; occasional; provisional.
- unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative; unascertained,
- unconfirmed; undemonstrated; untold, uncounted.
- in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the
- track; ignorant.&c. 491; afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray,
- adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus;
- puzzled &c. v.; lost, abroad, dsorient; distracted, distraught.
- Adv. pendente lite; sub spe rati.
- Phr. Heaven knows; who can tell? who shall decide when doctors
- disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces.
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- Section IV. REASONING PROCESSES
-
-
- #476. Reasoning, -- N. {ant. 477} reasoning ratiocination rationalism;
- dialectics, induction, generalization.
- discussion, comment; ventilation; inquiry &c. 461.
- argumentation, controversy, debate; polemics, wrangling; contention
- &c. 720 logomachy; disputation, disceptation; paper war.
- art of reasoning, logic.
- process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning;
- deduction, induction; synthesis, analysis.
- argument; case, plaidoyer, opening; lemma, proposition, terms,
- premises, postulate, data, starting point, principle; inference &c.
- (judgment) 480.
- prosyllogism, syllogism; enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a
- priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad
- hominem[Lat.], comprehensive argument; empirema, epagoge.
- reasoner, logician, dialectician; disputant; controversialist,
- controvertist; wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist;
- scientist; eristic.
- logical sequence; good case; correct just reasoning, sound reasoning,
- valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning,
- persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning, consectary reasoning|,
- conclusive &c. 478 ; subtle reasoning; force of argument, strong point,
- strong argument.
- arguments, reasons, pros and cons.
- V. reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy, bandy
- words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument;
- controvert &c. (deny) 536; canvass; comment upon, moralize upon;
- spiritualize; consider &c. (examine) 461.
- open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at
- issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question,
- ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.
- contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer &c. 480.
- follow from &c. (demonstration) 478.
- Adj. reasoning &c. v.; rationalistic; argumentative, controversial,
- dialectic, polemical; discursory, discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian,
- eristic, eristical.
- debatable, controvertible.
- logical; relevant &c. 23.
- Adv. for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith, then
- thence so; for that reason, for this reason, for which reason; for as,
- inasmuch as; whereas, ex concesso, considering, in consideration of;
- therefore, wherefore; consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly; a fortiori.
- in conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt, on the
- whole, taking one thing with another.
- Phr. ab actu ad posse valet consecutio; per troppo dibatter la verita
- si perde; troppo disputare la verita fa errare.
-
-
-
- #477. [The absence of reasoning.] Intuition. [.False or vicious
- reasoning; show of reason.] Sophistry. -- N. {ant. 476} intuition,
- instinct, association; presentiment; rule of thumb.
- sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation,
- evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet, quiddity; mystification; special
- pleading; speciousness &c. adj.; nonsense &c. 497; word-fence, tongue-
- fence.
- false reasoning, vicious reasoning; petitio principii, ignoratio
- elenchi; post hoc ergo propter hoc; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius.
- misjudgment &c. 481; false teaching &c. 538.
- sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench,
- fallacy, quod-libet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency,
- antilogy; " a delusion, a mockery, and a snare " [Denman]; claptrap, mere
- words; " lame and impotent conclusion " [Othello].
- meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry; flaw in an argument; weak
- point, bad case.
- overrefinement; hairsplitting &c. v.
- V. judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition,
- hazard a guess, talk at random.
- reason ill, reason falsely &c. adj.; misjudge &c. 481; paralogize.
- pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over,
- varnish; misteach &c. 538; mislead & . (error) 495; cavil, refine,
- subtilie, split airs; misrepresent &c. (lie) 544.
- beg the question, reason in a circle, cut blocks with a razor, beat
- about the bush, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, prove that black is
- white and white black, travel out of the record, parler d tort et a
- travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on.
- Adj. intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason,
- anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected.
- unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not
- following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous|,
- absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious,
- fallible; groundless, unproved.
- deceptive, sophistical jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious,
- hollow, plausible, ad captandum., evasive; irrelevant &c. 10.
- weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague, irrational; nonsensical &c.
- (absurd) 497; foolish &c. (imbecile) 499; frivolous, pettifogging,
- quibbling; finespun, overrefined.
- at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.
- Adv. intuitively &c. adj.; by intuition; illogically &c. adj.
- Phr. non constat; that goes for nothing.
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- #478. Demonstration. -- N. {ant. 479} demonstration, proof;
- conclusiveness &c. adj.; apodeixis, apodixis, probation, comprobation|.
- logic of facts &c. (evidence) 467; experimentum crucis &c. (test) 463;
- argument &c. 476; rigorous establishment, absolute establishment.
- V. demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest
- &c. (be evidence of) 467; verify &c. 467 settle the question, reduce to
- demonstration, set the question at rest.
- make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the
- argument; draw a conclusion &c. (judge) 480.
- follow, follow of course; stand to reason; hold good, hold water.
- Adj. demonstrating &c. v., demonstrative, demonstrable; probative,
- unanswerable, conclusive; apodeictic, apodeictical; irresistible,
- irrefutable, irrefragable.
- categorical, decisive, crucial.
- demonstrated &c. v.; proven; unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted;
- evident &c. 474.
- deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following.
- Adv. of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course.
- Phr. probatum est; there is nothing more to be said, Q.E.D., it must
- follow; exitus acta probat.
-
- #479. Confutation. -- N. {ant 478} confutation, refutation; answer,
- complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation; exposure,
- exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu
- quoque argument; sockdolager * [U. S.].
- V. confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, rebut, redargue,
- expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break &c. (destroy) 162;
- overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put
- to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give
- one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.
- not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet.
- be confuted &c.; fail; expose one's weak point, show one's weak point.
- Adj. confuting, confuted, &c. v.; capable of refutation; refutable,
- confutable.
- condemned on one's own showing,condemned out of one's own mouth.
- Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio, it does not
- hold water, " suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo" [Terence].
-
-
- Section V. RESULTS OF REASONING
-
-
- #480. Judgment. [Conclusion.] -- N. result, conclusion, upshot;
- deduction, inference, ergotism|, illation; corollary, porism; moral.
- estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication; dijudication,
- adjudication; arbitrament, arbitrement, arbitration; assessment,
- ponderation; valorization.
- award, estimate; review, criticism, critique, notice, report.
- decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree;
- res judicata.
- plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote &c. (choice) 609; opinion &c.
- (belief) 484; good judgment &c. (wisdom) 498.
- judge, umpire; arbiter, arbitrator; assessor, referee; censor,
- reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator &c. 524; inspector, inspecting
- officer.
- V. judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at
- a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.
- deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction,
- weet|, ween.
- form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate,
- rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon &c. (believe) 484;
- review; size up
- settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce rule;
- pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence., doom; find; give judgment, deliver
- judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a
- verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm &c. .(assent) 488.
- comment, criticize; pass under review &c. (examine) 457; investigate
- &c. (inquire) 461.
- hold the scales, sit in judgment; try a cause, hear a cause.
- Adj. judging &c. v.; judicious &c. (wise) 498; determinate,
- conclusive.
- Adv. on the whole, all things considered.
- Phr. " a Daniel come to judgment " [Merchant of Venice]; " and stand a
- critic, hated yet caress'd " [Byron]; " it is much easier to be critical
- than to be correct " [Disreeli]; la critique est aisle et l'art est
- difficile; " nothing if not critical " [Othello]; " O most lame and
- impotent conclusion " [Othello].
-
-
- #480a. [Result of search or inquiry.] Discovery. -- N. discovery,
- detection, disenchantment; ascertainment, disclosure, find, revelation.
- trover &c. 775.
- V. discover, find, determine, evolve; fix upon; find out, trace out,
- make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring
- out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig up, grub up, fish up;
- unearth, disinter.
- solve, resolve; unriddle, unravel, unlock; pick the lock, open the
- lock; find a clue, find a clew to; interpret &c. 522; disclose &c. 529.
- trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger upon, lay one's hands
- upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth &c. 494; put the saddle
- on the right horse, hit the right nail an the head, hit the nail an the
- head.
- be near the truth, burn; smoke, seent, sniff, smell a rat.
- open the eyes to; see through, see daylight, see in its true colors,
- see the cloven foot; detect; catch, catch tripping.
- pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon;
- come across; meet with, fall in with.
- recognize, realize, verify, make certain of, identify.
- Int. eureka!
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- #481. Misjudgment. -- N. misjudgment, obliquity of judgment;
- miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception &c. (error) 495; hasty
- conclusion.
- [causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice;
- foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection,
- prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, presentiment; fixed idea,
- preconceived idea; ide fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise.
- [causes of misjudgment.2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship,
- clannishness, prestige.
- [causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk,
- crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.
- [casuses of misjudgent. 4] one-sided views, partial views, narrow
- views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas,
- narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions,
- partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial
- conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined
- notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606;
- odium theologicum; pedantry; hypercriticism.
- doctrinaire &c. (positive) 474.
- V. misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive &c.
- (error) 495; fly in the face of facts; miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute.
- overestimate &c. 482; underestimate &c. 483.
- prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate; dogmatize; have
- a bias &c. n.; have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri, run away with
- the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion; look only at one
- side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting
- spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare pondus fumo; get the wrong sow
- by the ear &c. (blunder) 699.
- give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.
- Adj. misjudging &c. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced &c. v.;
- jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial.
- narrow-minded, narrow-souled; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal,
- intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entgtg, positive, dogmatic,
- conceited; opinative, opiniative; opinioned, opinionate, opinionative,
- opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opinitre; bigoted &c.
- (obstinate) 606; crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid &c.
- 499; credulous &c 486; warped.
- misjudged &c. v.
- Adv. ex parte.
- Phr. nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought.
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- #482. Overestimation. -- N. overestimation &c. v.; exaggeration &c.
- 549; vanity &c. 880; optimism, pessimism, pessimist. much cry and little
- wool, much ado about nothing,; storm in a teacup; fine talking.
- V. overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh,
- overreckon, overstrain, overpraise; eulogize; estimate too highly, attach
- too much importance to, make mountains of molellills, catch at straws;
- strain, magnify; exaggerate &c. 549; set too high a value upon; think much
- of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of; outreckon;
- panegyrize.
- extol, extol to the skies; make the most of, make the best of, make
- hte worst of; make two bites of a cherry.
- have too high an opinion of oneself &c. (vanity) 880.
- Adj. overestimated &c. v.; oversensitive &c. (sensibility) 822.
- Phr. all his geese are swans; parturiunt montes.
-
-
- #483. Underestimation. -- N. underestimation; depreciation &c.
- (detraction) 934; pessimism, pessimist; undervaluing &c. v.; modesty &c.
- 881.
- V. underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate;
- disparage &c. (detract) 934; not do justice to; misprize, disprize;
- ridicule &c. 856; slight &c. (despise) 930; neglect &c. 460; slur over.
- make light of, make little of, make nothing of, make no account of;
- belittle; minimize, think nothing of; set no store by, set at naught; shake
- off as dewdrops from the lion's mane.
- Adj. depreciating, depreciated &c. v.; unvalued, unprized.
-
-
- #484. Belief. -- N. belief; credence; credit; assurance; faith, trust,
- troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation &c. (hope) 858;
- dependence on, reliance on.
- persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction;
- certainty &c. 474; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression
- &c. (idea) 453; surmise &c. 514; conclusion &c. (judgment) 480.
- tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking; popular belief &c. (assent)
- 488.
- firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted
- belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate
- belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief,
- well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed
- rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast
- opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate
- opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion &c.; uberrima fides.
- system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of
- faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda, creed;
- thirty-nine articles &c. (orthodoxy) 983a; catechism; assent &c. 488;
- propaganda &c. (teaching) 537.
- credibility &c. (probability) 472.
- V. believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see,
- realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it;
- consider, esteem, presume.
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- #485. Unbelief. Doubt.-- N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit,
- miscreance; infidelity &c. (irreligion) 989; dissent &c. 489; change of
- opinion &c. 484; retractation &c. 607.
- doubt &c. (uncertainty) 475; skepticism, misgiving, demure; distrust,
- mistrust; misdoubt, suspicion, jealousy, scruple, qualm; onus probandi.
- incredibility, incredibleness; incredulity.
- unbeliever &c. 487.
- V. disbelieve, discredit; not believe &c. 484; misbelieve; refuse to
- admit &c. (dissent) 489; refuse to believe &c. (incredulity) 487.
- doubt; be doubtful & c. (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be
- skeptical as to &c. adj.; diffide|; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke,
- scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts,
- suspicions; have one's doubts.
- demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.
- hang in suspense, hang in doubt.
- throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question;
- question, challenge, dispute; deny &c. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a
- doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion;
- ergotize
- startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's
- faith, stagger one's belief.
- Adj. unbelieving; incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as
- to, shy as to, suspicious of; doubting &c. v.
- doubtful &c. (uncertain) 475; disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of
- belief &c. 484; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open
- to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, not to be believed,
- inconceivable.
- fallible &c. (uncertain) 475; undemonstrable; controvertible &c.
- (untrue) 495.
- Adv. cum grano salis[Latin: with a grain of salt]; with grains of
- allowance.
- Phr. fronti nulla fides; nimium ne crede colori [Vergil]; "timeo
- Danaos et dona ferentes" [Vergil]; credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; let
- those believe who may; ad tristem partem stenua est suspicio [Syrus].
-
-
- #486. Credulity. -- N. credulity, credulousness &c. adj.; gullible,
- cullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception;
- superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c. (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy
- &c. 984; misjudgment &c. 481.
- credulous person &c (dupe) 547.
- V. be credulous &c. adj.; jurare in verba magistri; follow implicitly;
- swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for gospel; run
- away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a conclusion, rush to a
- conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese; take for granted, grasp
- the shadow for the substance; catch at straws.
- impose upon &c. (deceive) 545.
- Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c. 545; simple, green,
- soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over
- confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding &c.
- (believing) 484.
- Phr. the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile
- [Tertullian]; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que reluce;
- omne ignotum pro magnifico.
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- #487. Incredulity.-- N. incredulousness, incredulity; skepticism,
- pyrrhonism|!; want of faith &c. (irreligion) 989.
- suspiciousness &c. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion &c. (unbelief) 485.
- unbeliever, skeptic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c.
- (heterodox) 984.
- V. be incredulous &c. adj.; distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485; refuse to
- believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold
- aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri.
- Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible; hard of
- belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe;
- suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful.
-
- 1The word miscreant, which origianlly meant simply misbeliever, has now
- quite another meaning (949). See Trench, On the Study of Words, p. 71.
-
-
- #488. Assent. -- N. assent, assentment; acquiescence, admission; nod;
- accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c. 23; affirmance, affirmation;
- recognition, acknowledgement, avowal; confession of faith.
- unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi;
- popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion;
- concurrence &c. (of causes) 178; cooperation &c. (voluntary) 709.
- ratification, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa;
- indorsement &c. (record) 551.
- consent &c. (compliance) 762.
- V. assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree &c.
- 23; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent,
- coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along wth,
- chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views,
- agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to,
- conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
- acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede &c. (yield)
- 762; come round to; abide by; permit &c. 760.
- arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms,
- come to an agreement.
- confirm, affirm; ratify, appprove, indorse, countersign; corroborate
- &c. 467.
- go with the stream, swim with the stream; be in fashion, join in the
- chorus; be in every mouth.
- Adj. assenting &c. v; of one accord, of one mind; of the same mind, at
- one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing &c. 602.
- uncontradicted, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted.
- carried, agreed nem. con. &c. adv.; unanimous; agreed on all hands,
- carried by acclamation.
- affirmative &c. 535.
- Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well
- and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said"; truly,
- exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, certes|!, ex
- concesso; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless.
- be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly &c. 602.
- affirmatively, in the affirmative.
- with one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una
- voce, by comon consent, in chorus, to a man, nem. con.; nemine
- contradicente, nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one
- man, one and all, on all hands.
- Phr. avec plaisir; chi tace accousente; "the public mind is the
- creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli].
-
- #489. Dissent.-- N. dissent; discordance &c. (disagreement) 24;
- difference diversity of opinion.
- nonconformity &c. (heterodoxy) 984; protestantism, recusancy, schism;
- disaffection; secession &c. 624; recantation &c. 607.
- dissension &c (discord) 713; discontent &c. 832; cavilling.
- protest; contradiction &c (denial) 536; noncompliance &c (rejection)
- 764.
- dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist;
- sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic.
- V. dissent, demur; call in question &c. (doubt) 485; differ in
- opinion, disagree; say no &c. 536; refuse assent, refuse to admit; cavil,
- protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate; contradict &c. (deny) 536.
- have no notion of, differ toto caelo; revolt at, revolt from the idea.
- shake the head, shrug the shoulders; look askance, look askant.
- secede; recant &c. 607.
- Adj. dissenting &c. v; negative &c. 536; dissident, disentient;
- unconsenting &c. (refusing) 764; non-content, nonjuring; protestant,
- recusant; unconvinced, unconverted.
- unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question.
- discontented &c. 832; unwilling &c. 603; extorted.
- sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.
- Adv. no &c. 536; at variance, at issue with; under protest.
- Int. God forbid! not for the world; I'll be hanged if; never tell me;
- your humble servant, pardon me.
- Phr. many men many minds; quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; tant
- s'en faut; il s'en faut bien.
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- #490. Knowledge.-- N. knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence|;
- acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity;
- comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation &c. (judgment) 480;
- intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition;
- acroamatics|!.
- light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn;
- scent, suspicion; impression &c. (idea) 453; discovery &c. 480a.
- system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy;
- acroama|!; theory, aetiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine,
- body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school &c. (system of opinions)
- 484.
- tree of knowldge; republic of letters &c. (language) 560.
- erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature;
- book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry;
- information, general information; store of knowledge &c.; education &c.
- (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements,
- acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge &c. (skill)
- 698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments &c (beginning) 66.
- deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate
- knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge,
- extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning;
- omniscience, pantology.
- march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance
- of learning; schoolmaster abroad.
- V. know, ken, scan, wot; wot aware, be aware &c. adj.- of; ween, weet,
- trow, have, possess.
- conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy*
- [U.S.], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see,
- get a sight-of, experience.
- know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be
- au courant &c. adj.; have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by
- heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes, know
- what's what &c. 698.
- see one's way; discover &c. 480a.
- come to one's knowledge &c. (information) 527.
- Adj. knowing &c. v.; cognitive; acromatic.
- aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted
- with; privy to, no stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to,
- alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of,
- informed of; undeceived.
- proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at
- home in; conversant with, familiar with.
- erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well
- informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd,
- savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-
- learned; accomplished &c (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught.
- known &c. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received,
- notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words,
- familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, commonplace.
- cognoscible, cognizable.
- Adv. to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
- Phr. one's eyes being opened &c. (disclosure) 529; ompredre tout c'est
- tout pardonner[French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore docet
- experientia;<gr/gnothi seauton/gr>; "half our knowledge we must snatch not
- take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher[German: years teach more than
- books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"[Tennyson]; "knowledge is
- power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia
- [Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"
- [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.
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- #491. Ignorance. -- N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass
- ignorance, ignorance crasse; unacquaintance; unconsciousness &c. adj.;
- darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity.
- unknown quantities, x, y, z.
- sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark
- ages.
- [Imperfect knowledge] smattering, sciolism, glimmering; bewilderment
- &c. (uncertainty) 475; incapacity.
- [Affectation of knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism;
- Philister, Philistine.
- V. be ignorant &c. adj.; not know &c. 490; know not, know not what,
- know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have
- the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese.
- ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance &c. (conceal) 528.
- see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, -glimmering &c.
- n.; wonder whether; not know what to make of &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
- not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say.
- Adj. ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprized,
- unwitting, unweeting|, unconscious; witless, weetless; a stranger to;
- unconversant.
- uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught,
- uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenglightened; -
- Phillistine; behind the age.
- shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate;
- unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-
- headed; pedantic;
- in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked;
- misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at
- sea &c. (uncertain) 475; caught tripping.
- unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated,
- unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed &c. 528; novel.
- Adv. ignorantly &c. adj.; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows;
- not that one knows.
- Int. God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, nobody knows.
- Phr. "ignorance never settles a question" [Disraeli]; quantum animis
- erroris inest! [Ovid]; "small Latin and less Greek" [B. Jonson]; "that
- unlettered small-knowing soul" [Love's Labor's Lost!]; "there is no
- darkness but ignorance" [Twelfth NIght].
-
- #492. Scholar.-- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman,
- professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts,
- doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist,
- clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glosso-linguist, philologist;
- philologer; lexico-grapher, glosso-grapher; grammarian; litterateur,
- literati, dilettanti, illuminati; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah,
- munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton,
- Mecaenas.
- bookworm, helluo librorum; bibliophile, bibliomaniac; bluestocking,
- bas-bleu; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus, Artium
- Magister.
- learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum; man of learning,
- man of letters, man of education, man of genius.
- antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.
- sage &c. (wise man) 500.
- pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist,
- criminologist.
- schoolboy &c. (learner) 541.
- Adj. learned &c. 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
- Phr. "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one" [Henry VIII]; "the
- manifold linguist" [All's Well That Ends Well].
-
- #493. Ignoramus.-- N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.
- sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.
- greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541; numskull.
- lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c. 501; pedant &c 492.
- Adj. bookless, shallow; ignorant &c. 491.
- Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits" [Pope].
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- #494. [Object of knowlege.] Truth. -- N. fact, reality &c.
- (existence) 1; plain matter of fact; nature &c. (principle) 5; truth,
- verity; gospel; orthodoxy &c. 983a; authenticity; veracity &c. 543;
- correctitude.
- accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c. adj.; precision,
- delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision
- &c. (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.
- orthology; ipsissima verba; realism.
- plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth,
- unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas;
- the very thing; not an -illusion &c 495; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale;
- the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
- V. be - true &c. adj., be the case; sand the test; have the true ring;
- hold good, hold true, hold water.
- render true, prove true &c. adj.; substantiate &c. (evidence) 467.
- get at the truth &c. (discover) 480a.
- Adj. real, actual &c. (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct;
- certain &c. 474; substantially true, categorically true &c; true to the
- letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious &c. 543; unreconfuted,
- unconfuted; unideal, unimagined; realistic.
- exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just; strict,
- severe; close &c. (similar) 17; literal; rigid, rigorous; scrupulous &c.
- (conscientious) 939; religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific;
- faithful, constant, unerring; curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine;
- clean-cut, clear-cut.
- genuine, authentic, legitimate; othodox &c. 983a; official, ex
- officio.
- pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated,
- unvarnished, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka.
- well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid;
- undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic,
- unflattering.
- Adv. truly &c. adj.; verily, indeed, in reality; with truth &c.
- (veracity) 543; certainly &c. (certain) 474; actually &c. (existence) 1; in
- effect &c (intrinsically) 5.
- exactly &c. adj.; ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word
- for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter
- and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a
- hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more
- nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any
- rate, at all events; strictly speaking.
- Phr. the -truth, the fact- is; rem acu tetigisti; en suivant la
- verite; ex facto jus oritur; la verita e figlia del empo; locos y ninos
- dicen la verdad; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Cicero]; veritas nunquam
- perit [Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Seneca]; the truth the whole truth
- and nothing but the truth; just the facts.
-
- #495. Error. -- N. error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension,
- misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness &c. adj.; laxity;
- misconstruction &c. (misinterpreptation) 523; miscomputation &c.
- (misjudgment) 481; non sequitur &c. 477; mis-statement, mis-report;
- mumpsimus.
- mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight,
- misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip,
- stumble &c. (failure) 732; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699; slip of the
- tongue, slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull &c.
- (absurdity) 497; haplography.
- illusion, delusion; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-decit,
- self-deception; mists of error.
- heresy &c. (heterodoxy) 984; hallucination &c. (insanity) 503; false
- light &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (fancy) 515; fable &c.
- (untruth) 546; bias &c. (misjudgment) 481; misleading &c. v.
- V. be erroneous &c. adj.
- cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile,
- misinform &c. (misteach) 538; delude; give a false impression, give a false
- idea; falsify, misstate; deceive &c. 545; lie &c. 544.
- err; be -in error &c. adj., be mistaken &c. v.; be deceived &c.
- (duped) 547; mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall
- into error, lie under error, labor under an error &c. n.; be in the wrong,
- blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount,
- miscalculate &c. (misjudge) 481.
- play at cross purposes , be at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret) 523.
- trip, stumble; lose oneself &c. (uncertainty) 475; go astray; fail &c.
- 732; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear &c. (mismanage)
- 699; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the
- shadow for the substance &c (credulity) 486; dream &c (imagine) 515.
- Adj. erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious,
- apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial &c. 4; heretical
- &c. (heterodox) 984; unsound; illogical &c. 477.
- inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect; indefinite &c. (uncertain)
- 475.
- illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal &c (imaginary) 515; spurious
- &c. 545; deceitful &c. 544; perverted.
- controvertible, unsustainable; unauthenticated, untrustworthy.
- exploded, refuted; discarded.
- in error, under an error &c. n.; mistaken &c. v.; tripping &c. v.;
- out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark,
- wide of the truth; astray &c (at fault) 475; on a false scent, on the wrong
- scent; in the wrong box; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out.
- Adv. more or less.
- Phr. errare est humanum; mentis gratissimus error [Horace]; "on the
- dubious waves of error tost" [Cowper]; "to err is human, to forgive divine"
- [Pope]; "you lie -- under a mistake" [Shelley].
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- #496. Maxim.-- N. maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm; dictum,
- saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot, motto, word, byword, moral,
- phylactery, protasis.
- axiom, theorem, scholium, truism, postulate.
- reflection &c (idea) 453; conclusion &c (judgment) 480; golden rule
- &c. (precept) 697; principle, principia; profession of faith &c. (belief)
- 484; settled principle, formula.
- wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted maxim, recognized
- maxim &c; true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying, trite saying,
- commonplace saying &c.
- Adj. aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric; axiomatic, gnomic.
- Adv. as the saying is, as they say.
-
- #497. Absurdity. -- N. absurdity, absurdness &c. adj.; imbecility &c.
- 499; alogy|, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence;
- nugacity.
- blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism|!, Hibernicism|!; slipslop;
- anticlimax, bathos; sophism &c. 477.
- farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago &c (disorder) 59;
- betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy.
- sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic.
- jargon, fustian, twaddle &c (no meaning) 517; exaggeration &c 549;
- moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
- vagary, tomfoolery, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade.
- V. play the fool &c. 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess;
- battre la campagne; <gr/ hanemolia bazein/gr>; be absurd &c. adj.
- Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless,
- inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-
- contradictory; macaronic, punning.
- foolish &c. 499; sophistical &c. 477; unmeaning &c. 517; without rhyme
- or reason; fantastic.
- Int. fiddlededee! pish! pho! "in the name of the Prophet--figs!"
- [Horace Smith].
- Phr. credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; tell it to the marines.
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- #498. Intelligence. Wisdom. -- N. intelligence, capacity,
- comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe * [U.S.], savvy * [U.S.];
- intellect &c. 450; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit,
- gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness &c adj.; acumen,
- subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of,
- good judgment; discrimination &c 465; cunning &c. 702; refinement &c
- (taste) 850.
- head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle-
- glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk.
- wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense [U.S.],
- plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness &c. adj; judgment;
- solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought,
- compass of thought; enlargement of mind.
- genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul;
- talent &c. (aptitude) 698.
- [Wisdom in action] prudence &c. 864; vigilance &c. 459; tact &c 698;
- foresight &c 510; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast.
- a bright thought, not a bad idea.
- V. be -intelligent &c. adj.; have all one's wits about one; understand
- &c. (intelligible) 518; catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take
- a hint.
- see through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see
- through a millstone; penetrate; discern &c (descry) 441; foresee &c 510.
- discriminate &c. 465; know what's what &c. 698; listen to reason.
- Adj. [Applied to persons] intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen,
- acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen
- witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake;
- canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted &c 510; discerning,
- perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; nimble-witted, needle-
- witted; sharp as a needle; alive to &c (cognizant) 490; clever &c. (apt)
- 698; arch &c (cunning) 702; pas si bete; acute &c 682.
- wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's
- right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens, judicious, strong-minded.
- unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted, unprepossessed; undazzled,
- unperplexed; unwarped judgment, impartial, equitable, fair.
- cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-
- sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound.
- oracular; heaven-directed, heaven-born.
- prudent &c (cautious) 864; sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic,
- wise in one's generation; watchful &c. 459; provident &c (prepared) 673; in
- advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon.
- [Applied to actions] wise, sensible, reasonable, judicious; well-
- judged, well-advised; prudent, politic; expedient &c. 646.
- Phr. aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet; "but with the morning cool
- reflection came" [Scott]; flosculi sententiarum; les affaires font les
- hommes; mas vale saber que haber; mas vale ser necio que profiadol nemo
- solus sapit [Plautus]; nosce te; <gr/gnothi seauton/gr>; nullum magnum
- ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit [Seneca, from Aristotle]; sapere aude
- [Horace]; victrix fortunae sapientia [Juvenal].
-
- #499. Imbecility. Folly -- N. want of -intelligence &c. 498, want of -
- intellect &c. 450; shadowness, silliness, foolishness &c. adj.; imbecility,
- incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, clouded perception, poor
- head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull
- understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence &c
- (unskillfulness) 699.
- one's weak side; bias &c 481; infatuation &c. (insanity) 503.
- simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness,
- fatuity; idocy, idotism; driveling.
- folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity,
- inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry &c. 477; giddiness &c
- (inattention) 458; eccentricity &c. 503; extravagance &c (absurdity) 497;
- rashness &c. 863.
- act of folly &c. 699.
- b. be - imbecile &c adj.; have no -brains, have no sense &c. 498.
- trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble &c (madness) 503; play the fool,
- play the monkey; take leave of one's senses; not see an inch beyond one's
- nose; stultify oneself &c. 699; talk nonsense &c. 497.
- Adj. [Applied to persons] unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning;
- mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head &c.
- 498; not -bright &c. 498; inapprehensible.
- weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle
- headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle
- headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat
- witted, fat-headed.
- weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained;
- rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull
- witted, blund-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted,
- short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story.
- shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a
- beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blundt, stolid, doltish; asinine;
- inapt &c. 699; prosaic &c. 843; hebetudinous.
- childish, child-like; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile,
- anile; simple &c. (credulous) 486; old-womanish.
- fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant;
- sottish; bewildered &c.475.
- blockish, unteachabel Baeotian, Baeotic; bovine; ungifted,
- undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosphical; apish; simious.
- foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept;
- maudlin.
- narrow-minded &c. 481; bigoted &c. (obstinate) 606; giddy &c.
- (thoughtless) 458; rash &c. 863; eccentric &c. (crazed) 503.
- [Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper,
- unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-
- imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent,
- irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant &c (nonsensical) 497; sleeveless,
- idle; useless &c. 645; inexpedient &c. 647; frivolous &c. (trivial) 643.
- Phr. Davus sum non (Edipus; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" [Henry V.]
- clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Cicero]; "fools rush in where angels fear to
- tread" [Pope]; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon; "the bookful blockhead,
- ignorantly read" [Pope]; "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound"
- [Churchill].
-
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-
- #500. Sage -- N. sage, wise man; master mind, master spirit of the
- age; longhead, thinker.
- authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus
- Apollo, Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, "second Daniel."
- man of learning &c. 492; expert &c. 700; wizard &c. 994.
- [Ironically] wiseacre, bigwig.
- Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus.
- Phr. barba tenus sapientes.
-
- #501. Fool. -- N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling,
- dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt,
- booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl;
- goose, goosecap; imbecile; gaby; radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany;
- trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natureal, niais.
- child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.
- oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block,
- put, stick, stock, numps, tony.
- bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead,
- jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead,
- giddyhead; numbskull, thickskull; lackbrain, shallowbrain; halfwit,
- lackwit; dunderpate; lunkhead [U.S.]
- sawney, gowk; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull
- calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of
- Gotham.
- un sot a triple etage, sot; jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf,
- gobemouche.
- dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman; crone, grandmother; cotquean,
- henhussy.
- greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; dunce &c (ignoramus) 493; lubber &c (bungler)
- 701; madman &c 504.
- one who will not set the Thames on fire, one who did not invent
- gunpowder; qui n'a pas invente' la poudre; no conjuror.
- Phr. fortuna favet fatuis; les fous font les festinas et les sages les
- mangent; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent; stultorum plena sunt omnia
- [Cicero].
-
-
- #502. Sanity. -- N. sanity; soundness &c. adj.; rationality, sobriety,
- lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, sound mind, mens sana.
- V. be -sane &c. adj.; retain one's senses, retain one's reason.
- become -sane &c. adj.; come to one's senses, sober down.
- render -sane &c. adj; bring to one's senses, sober.
- Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound,
- sound-minded; lucid.
- self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.
- in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's
- faculties.
- Adv. sanely &c.adj.
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-
- #503. Insanity. -- N. disordered reason, disordered intellect;
- diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness.
- insanity, lunacy; madness &c. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental
- alienation, aberration; paranoia; dementation, dementia, demency;
- phrenitis, phrensy, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium,
- calenture of the brain; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy; brain
- storm|!.
- vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil,, siriasis.
- fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist,
- monomania; kleptodipsomania; hypochondriassis &c. (low spirits) 837;
- melancholia, hysteria; amentia.
- screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the
- upper story.
- dotage &c. (imbecility) 499.
- V. be insane &c. adj.
- become insane &c. adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose
- one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad; rave, dote, ramble,
- wander; drivel &c. (be imbecile) 499; have a screw loose &c. n., have a
- devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head &c. (be uncertain) 475.
- render mad, drive mad &c adj.; madden, dementate, addle the wits,
- derange the head, infatuate, befool; turn the brain, turn one's head.
- Adj. insane, mad, lunatic; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis;
- not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged,
- unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented,
- daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil;
- deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained,
- shatter brained, crackbrained; off one's head.
- maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting,
- wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad.
- corybantic, dithyrambic; rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard,
- mazed; flighty; distracted, distraught; bewildered &c. (uncertain) 475.
- mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind &c. n.; touched
- in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's
- right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, far
- gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.
- fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped, hyppish.
- imbecile, silly, &c. 499.
- Adv. like one possessed.
- Phr. the mind having lost its balance; the reason under a cloud; tet -
- exaltee', -montee'; ira furor brevis est; omnes stultos insanire [Horace].
-
- #504. Madman. -- N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, candidate for
- Bedlam, raver, madcap; energumen; automaniac, monomaniac, dipsomaniac,
- kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c. (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam.
- dreamer &c. 515; rhapsodist, seer, highflier, enthusiast, fanatic,
- fanatico; exalte'; knight errant, Don Quixote.
- idiot &c. 501.
-
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-
- SECTION VI EXTENSION OF THOUGHT
-
- 1. To the Past
-
-
- #505. Memory.-- N. memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness;
- tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae; tablets of the memory; readiness.
- reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration; recurrence,
- retrospect, retrospection.
- afterthought.
- suggestion &c. (information) 527; prompting &c. v.; hint, reminder;
- remembrancer, flapper; memorial &c. (record) 551; commemoration &c.
- (celebration) 883.
- memorandum;
- things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir,
- keepsake, relic, memorabilia.
- art of memory, artificial memory; memoria technica; mnemonics,
- mnemotechnics; phrenotypics; Mnemosyne.
- prompt-book.
- retentive memory, tenacious memory, green memory|!, trustworthy
- memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct memory, exact memory,
- ready memory, prompt memory.
- celebrity, fame, renown, reputation &c. (repute) 873.
- V. remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of;
- keep in view.
- recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look
- back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call
- upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's
- thoughts back; rake up the past.
- have in the thoughts, hold in the thoughts, bear in the thoughts,
- carry in the thoughts, keep in the thoughts, retain in the thoughts, have
- in the memory, hold in the memory, bear in the memory, carry in the memory,
- keep in the memory, retain in the memory, have in the mind, hold in the
- mind, bear in the mind, carry in the mind, keep in the mind, retain in the
- mind, hold in remembrance; be in one's thoughts, live in one's thoughts,
- remain in one's thoughts, dwell in one's thoughts, haunt one's thoughts,
- impress one's thoughts, be in one's mind, live in one's mind, remain in
- one's mind, dwell in one's mind, haunt one's mind, impress one's mind,
- dwell in one's memory.
- sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get out of one's
- head; be deeply impressed with; rankle &c. (revenge) 919.
- recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory.
- remind; suggest &c. (inform ) 527; prompt; put in mind, keep in mind;
- fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip up; renew; infandum renovare
- dolorem; jog the memory, flap the memory, refresh the memory, rub up the
- memory, awaken the memory; pull by the sleeve; bring back to the memory,
- put in remembrance, memorialize.
- task the memory, tax the memory.
- get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's
- fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by
- rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers'
- ends.
- commit to memory, memorize; conover, con; fix in the memory, rivet in
- the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the
- memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory,
- treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory,
- enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff
- the memory with, burden the memory with.
- redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green;
- tangere ulcus; keep up the memory of; commemorate &c. (celebrate) 883.
- make a note of &c. (record) 551.
- Adj. remembering, remembered &c. v.; mindful, reminiscential; retained
- in the memory &c. v.; pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green in
- remembrance; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one's memory &c. n.;
- indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts; memorable &c. (important) 642.
- Adv. by heart, by rote; without book, memoriter.
- in memory of; in memoriam; memoria in aeterna; suggestive.
- Phr. manet alta mente repostum [Vergil]; forsan et haec olim meminisse
- juvabit [Vergil]; absens haeres non erit; beatae memoriae; "briefly thyself
- remember" [Lear]; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Quintilian]; "memory the
- warder of the brian" [Macbeth]; parsque est meminisse doloris [Ovid]; "to
- live in hearts we leave behind is not to die" [Campbell]; vox audita peril
- littera scripta manet.
-
-
- #506. Oblivion.-- N. oblivion, obliviousnedd, lethe; forgetfulness &c.
- adj.; obliteration &c. 552 of , insensibility &c. 823 to the past.
- short memory, treacherous memory, loose memory, slippery memory,
- failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of memory; waters
- of Lethe, waters of oblivion.
- amnesty, general pardon.
- V. forget; be forgetful &c. adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into
- oblivion; have a short memory &c. n., have no head.
- forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one
- ear and go out the other.
- slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the
- memory; lose, lose sight of.
- unlearn; efface &c. 552 , discharge from the memory; consign to
- oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of &c. (turn
- the attention from) 458; cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from;
- let bygones be bygones &c.(forgive) 918.
- Adj. forgotten &c. v.; unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of
- mind; buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten; gone out of
- one's head, gone out of one's recollection.
- forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible &c. 823 to the
- past; heedless.
- Phr. non mi ricordo; the memory failing, the memory deserting one,
- being at (or in) fault.
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-
- #507. Expectation. -- N. expectation, expectance, expectancy;
- anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight &c. 510.
- contemplation, prospection, lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon,
- vista; destiny &c. 152.
- suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity &c. 455; anxious expectation,
- ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine
- expectation; torment of Tantalus.
- hope &c. 858; trust &c. (belief) 484; auspices &c. (prediction) 511;
- assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance.
- V. expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for;
- anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view;
- contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder &c. 870 at, not wonder if.
- wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a
- good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at "attention,"
- abide, bide one's time, watch.
- foresee &c. 510; prepare for &c. 673; forestall &c. (be early) 132;
- count upon &c. (believe in) 484; think likely &c. (probability) 472.
- lead one to expect &c. (predict) 511; have in store for &c. (destiny)
- 152.
- prick up one's ears, hold one's breath.
- Adj. expectant; expecting &c. v.; in expectation &c. n.; on the watch
- &c. (vigilant) 459; open-eyed, open-mouthed; agape, gaping, all agog; on
- tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready;
- curious &c. 455; looking forward to.
- expected &c. v.; long expected, foreseen; in prosepct &c. n.;
- prospective; in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon; impending &c.
- (destiny) 152.
- Adv. on the watch &c. adj.; with breathless expectation &c. n.; with
- bated breath; arrectis auribus.
- Phr. we shall see; nous verrons; "expectation whirls me round"
- [Troilus and Cressida].
-
- #508. Inexpectation. -- N. inexpectation, non-expectation; false
- expectation &c. (disappointment) 509; miscalculation &c. 481.
- surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock; bolt out of the
- blue; wonder &c. 870; eye opener.
- V. not expect &c. 507; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate &c.
- 481; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon.
- be unexpected &c. adj.; come unawares &c. adv.; turn up, pop, drop
- from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon
- one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a
- thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch
- unawares, catch napping; yach [S. Africa].
- pounce upon, spring a mine upon.
- surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away
- one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish &c. (strike with wonder) 870.
- Adj. nonexpectant; surprised &c. v.; unwarned, unaware; off one's
- guard; inattentive 458.
- unexpected, unanticipated, unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for;
- dropped from the clouds; beyond expectation, contrary to expectation,
- against expectation; out of one's reckoning; unheard of &c. (exceptional)
- 83; startling; sudden &c. (instantaneous) 113.
- Adv. abruptly, unexpectedly, plump, pop, a l'improviste, unawares;
- without notice, without warning, without a "by your leave"; like a thief in
- the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded momemt; suddenly &c.
- (instantaneously) 113.
- Int. heydey! &c. (wonder) 870.
- Phr. little did one think, little did one expect; nobody would ever
- suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect; who would have
- thought? it beats the Dutch|!.
-
- #509. [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment.-- N. disappointment;
- blighted hope, balk; blow; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's
- hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune;
- afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation &c. 481;
- fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.
- V. be disapppointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast
- &c. (wonder) 870; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's
- mouth; find one a false prophet.
- not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation.
- disappoint; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope,
- disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's
- hope; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from
- the lips, tantalize; dumfounder.
- Adj. disappointed &c. v.; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of
- one's reckoning.
- Phr. the mountain brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes; nascitur
- ridiculus mus [Horace]; diis aliter visum, the bubble burst; one's
- countenance falling.
-
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-
- #510. Foresight. -- N. foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-
- sightedness; anticipation; providence &c. (preparation) 673.
- forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone
- conclusion &c. (prejudgment) 481; prudence &c. (caution) 864.
- foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion,
- presentiment; second sight; sagacity &c. (intelligence) 498; antepast,
- prelibation, prophasis.
- prospect &c. (expectation) 507; foretaste; prospectus &c. (plan) 626.
- V. foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from
- afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future.
- see one's way; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows, see how
- the cat jumps.
- anticipate; expect &c. 507; be beforehand &c. (early) 132; predict &c.
- 511; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future,
- have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout &c.
- (vigilance) 459; forewarn &c. 668.
- Adj. foreseeing &c. v.; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious
- &c. (intelligent) 498; weatherwise; provident &c. (prepared) 673;
- prospective &c. 507.
- Adv. against the time when.
- Phr. cernit omnia Deus vindex; mihi cura futuri.
-
-
- #511. Prediction.-- N. prediction, announcement; program, programme
- &c. (plan) 626; premonition &c. (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy,
- vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration|; augury,
- auguration|; ahariolation|, hariolation|; foreboding, aboding; bodement,
- abodement;
- omniation|, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope,
- nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortune telling; divination; necromancy &c.
- 992.
- [Divination by the stars] astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology1.
- [Place of prediction] adytum.
- prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type.
- V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell,
- soothysay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscoppe, cast a nativity;
- advise; forewarn &c. 668.
- presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure,
- preshow; portend; foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify,
- ominate, signify, point to.
- usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.
- hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite
- hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64.
- Adj. predicting &cv.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical;
- vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, harupsical, Sibylline; weatherwise.
- ominous, portentous, augurous, agurial, agural; auspicial, auspicious;
- prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant
- with, bit with the fate of.
- Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus
- bona verba; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young].
-
- <-- 1 The following terms, expressive of different forms of
- divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as
- a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:-
- Divination by oracles, Theomancy; by the Bible, Biliomancy; by ghosts,
- Psychomancy; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy; by shadows or manes,
- Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy, Chaomancy; by the stars at
- birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy; by winds, Austromancy; by
- sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy), Hieromancy, Hieroscopy;
- by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy, Hieromancy; by the
- entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes,
- Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy;
- by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds,
- Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or
- Alectoromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water,
- Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of
- cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy;
- by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet,
- Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring,
- Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious
- stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap,
- Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy;
- by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails
- reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by
- numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books,
- Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy,
- Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing,
- Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle,
- Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents,
- Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy. -->
-
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-
- #512. Omen.-- N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice;
- sign &c. (indication) 550; harbinger &c. (precursor) 64; yule candle|!.
- bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c.
- 668.
- prefigurement &c. 511.
- Adj. ill-boding.
- Phr. auspicium melioris aevi.
-
- #513. Oracle.-- N. oracle; prophet, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune
- teller, witch, geomancer, aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; Sibyl;
- Python, Pythoness; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor,
- Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer
- &c. 994; interpreter &c. 524.
-
- SECTION VII. CREATIVE THOUGHT
-
- #514. Supposition.-- N. supposition, assumption, assumed position,
- postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, postulate, postulatum,
- theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal &c. (plan)
- 626; presumption &c. (belief) 484; divination.
- conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot;
- conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion.
- inkling, suggestion, hint; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose
- supposition, loose suggestion.
- association of ideas.
- conceit.
- V. suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize;
- presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess,
- speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted.
- put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a
- motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put
- forward conjecture.
- allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head.
- suggest itself &c. (thought) 451; run in the head &c. (memory) 505;
- marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether.
- Adj. supposing &c. v.; given, mooted, postulatory; assumed &c. v.;
- suppositive, suppositious; gratuitious, speculative, conjectural,
- hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative;
- suppositional.
- suggestive, allusive.
- Adv. if, if so be; an; on the suppostion &c. n.;ex hypothesi; in the
- case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps &c. (by possibility)
- 470; for aught one knows.
-
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- #515. Imagination. -- N. imagination; originality; invention; fancy;
- inspiration; verve.
- warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine
- imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination,
- wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful
- imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.
- "mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest].
- ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.
- dreaming; phrensy, frenzy; ecstasy, extasy; calenture &c. (delirium)
- 503; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism.
- conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy"; cloudland,
- dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies"
- [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.
- conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera;
- phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary,
- rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear,
- nightmare.
- flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the
- air, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium,
- fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c.
- (novel) 594; Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope)
- 858.
- illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata
- Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423; vapor &c. (cloud) 353; stretch of the
- imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis.
- idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus; romancer, dreamer;
- somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful
- projector.
- V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of; "give
- to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream].
- create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike
- out something new.
- set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention;
- rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate.
- give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give
- fancy; indulge in reverie.
- conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture-
- oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen.
- float in the mind; suggest itself &c. (thought) 451.
- Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben trovato; air drawn, airbuilt.
- imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.
- romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic,
- Utopian, Quixotic.
- ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus; unsubsantial &c. 4; illusory
- &c. (fallacious) 495.
- fabulous, legendary; mythic, mythological; chimerical; imaginary,
- visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastical; whimsical; fairy, fairy-
- like; gestic.
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; aegri somnia
- vana; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [Latin] [Horace]; "fancy
- light from fancy caught" [Tennyson]; "imagination rules the world"
- [Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas[French];
- musaeo contingens cuncta lepore [Latin] [Lucretius]; tous songes sont
- mensonges[French]; Wahrheil und Dichtung[German].
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- DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS
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- SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED.
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- #516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning. [Thing signified.] -- N.
- meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport;
- force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
- gist, essence, spirit &c.5.
- matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.
- genera meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial
- meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning,
- unstrained meaning, true &c. (exact) 494 meaning, honest &c. 543 meaning,
- prima facie &c. (manifest) 525 meaning.
- literally; after acceptation.
- synonym; implication, allusion &c. (latency) 526; suggestion &c.
- (information) 527; figure of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c.
- (interpretation) 522.
- V. mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply,
- breathe, idicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point
- to, allude to; drive at; involve &c. (latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm)
- 535.
- understand by &c. (interpret) 522.
- Adj. meaning &c. v.; expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant,
- significative, significatory; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant with
- meaning.
- declaratory &c. 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous;
- tantamount &c. (equivalent) 27; implied &c. (latent) 526; explicit &c. 525.
- Adv. to that effect; that is to say &c. (being interpreted) 522.
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- #517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness. -- N. unmeaningness &c.
- adj.; scrabble.
- empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil; "a tale told by an
- idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and a
- tinkling cymbal."
- nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus,
- fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble,
- baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle;
- rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge,
- trash; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish,
- moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c.
- (unintelligibility) 519.
- V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble.
- Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense &c.
- 516.
- inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c. 516;
- insignificant.
- trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.
- unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. (latent) 526.
- inexpressile, undefinable, incommunicable.
-
- #518. Intelligibility. -- N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness
- &c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain
- speaking &c. (manifestation) 525; precision &c. 494; <gr/phonanta
- synetoisy/gr>; a word to the wise.
- V. be intelligible &c. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its
- own tale, lie on the surface.
- render intelligible &c. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up;
- elucidate &c. (explain) 522.
- understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect,
- master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter
- into the ideas of; come to an understanding.
- Adj. intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid;
- perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.
- easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible
- to the meanest capacity, popularized.
- plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite &c. (precise) 494.
- graphic; expressive &c. (meaning) 516; illustrative &c. (explanatory)
- 522.
- unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable &c. (manifest) 525; unconfused;
- ligible, recognizable; obvious &c. 525.
- Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.
- Phr. he that runs may read &c. (manifest) 525.
-
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- #519. Unintelligibility.-- N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility,
- imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness &c. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity
- &c. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty &c. 475; perplexity &c. (confusion)
- 59; spinosity; obscurum per obscurius; mystification &c. (concealment) 528;
- latency &c. 526; transcendentalism.
- paradox; riddle, enigma, puzzle &c. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice
- nodus; sealed book; steganography, freemasonry.
- pons asinorum, asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon &c.
- (unmeaning) 517.
- V. be unintelligible &c. adj.; require explanation &c. 522; have a
- doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.
- render unintelligible &c. adj.; conceal &c 528; darken &c. 421;
- confuse &c. (derange) 61; perplex &c. (bewilder)
- 475.
- not understand &c. 518; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to
- make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account
- for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea &c. (uncertain)
- 475; wonder &c. 870; see through a glass darkly &c. (ignorance) 491.
- not understand one another; play at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret)
- 523.
- Adj. unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable,
- unknowlable, unfathomable; incognizable, inexplicable, inscrutable;
- inapprehensible, incomprehensible; insolvable, insoluble; impenetrable.
- illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic,
- enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533; indecipherable.
- obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim,
- nebulous, shrouded in mystery; undiscernible &c. (invisible) 447; misty &c.
- (opaque) 426; hidden &c 528; latent &c 526.
- indefinite &c. (indistinct) 447; perplexed &c. (confused) 59;
- undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical;
- acroamatic, acroamatical; metemphirical; transcendental; occult, recondite,
- abstruse, crabbed.
- inconceivable, inconceptible; searchless; above comprehension, beyond
- comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's depth; unconceived.
- inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.
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- #520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness.-- N. equivocalness &c
- adj.; double meaning &c. 516; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre,
- pun, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque, anagram; conundrum &c
- (riddle) 533; word play &c. (wit) 842; homonym, homonymy; amphiboly,
- amphibology; ambilogy, ambiloquy|.
- Sphinx, Delphic oracle.
- equivocation &c. (duplicity) 544; white lie, mental reservation &c.
- (concealment) 528; paltering.
- V. be -equivocal &c. adj.; have two meanings &c. 516; equivocate &c.
- (alter) 544.
- Adj. equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous, homonymous; double-tongued &c.
- (lying) 544; enigmatical, indeterminate.
- Phr. on the one hand, on the other hand.
-
- #521. Metaphor.-- N. figure of speech; facon de parler [French], way
- of speaking, colloquialism.
- phrase &c. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis;
- metonymy, synecdoche; autonomasia|!, irony, figurativeness &c. adj.; image,
- imagry; metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia,
- allegory, apologue, parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.
- V. employ -metaphor &c. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow
- forth, apply, allude to.
- Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious,
- parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical; ironical; colloquial;
- tropical.
- Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.
- Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Horace].
-
- #522. Interpretation. -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation,
- explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple
- interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c. 516.
- translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free
- translation; key; secret; clew &c. (indication) 550; clavis, crib, pony
- [U.S.].
- exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary;
- inference &c. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss,
- annotation, scholium, note; elucidation, dilucidation|; eclaircissement,
- mot d'enigme.
- symptomatology, semeiology; metoposcopy, physiognomy; paleography &c.
- (philology) 560; oneirology
- acception, acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection,
- construction, version.
- equivalent, equivalent meaning &c. 516; synonym; para-phrase,
- metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c. 562; polyglot.
- V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into,
- turn into; transfuse the sense of.
- find out &c. 480a the meaning &c. 516 of; read; spell out, make out;
- decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve;
- read between the lines.
- account for; find the cause, tell the cause &c. 153 of;
- throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light
- upon; clear up, elucidate.
- illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate;
- popularize &c. (render intelligible) 518.
- take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive
- in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a
- construction on, be given to understand.
- Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical;
- construable.
- polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic; consignificative,
- synonymous; equivalent &c. 27.
- Adv. in explanation &c. n.; that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit,
- namely, in other words.
- literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer
- words, in plainer English; more simply.
-
- #523. Misinterpretation. -- N. misinterpretation, misapprehension,
- misunderstanding, misacceptation|, misconstruction, misapplication;
- catachresis; eisegesis; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake &c. 495.
- misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration &c. 549; false coloring,
- false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification &c.
- (lying) 544.
- V. misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell,
- mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake &c. 495.
- misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble &c. (falsify)
- 544; distort, detort|; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain
- the sense, stretch the menaing, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest
- the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false
- construction on; give a false coloring.
- be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.
- Adj. misinterpreted &c. v.; untranslated, untranslatable.
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- #524. Interpreter.-- N. interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent,
- explainer; demonstrator.
- scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast, paraphrast; glossarist,
- prolocutor.
- spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece.
- dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman; oneirocritic;
- (Edipus; oracle &c. 513)
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- SECTION II. MODES OF COMMUNICATION
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- #525. Manifestation.-- N. {ant. 527} manifestation; plainness &c.
- adj.; plain speaking; expression; showing &c. v.; exposition,
- demonstration; exhibition, production; display, show; showing off;
- premonstration|. [Thing shown] exhibit.
- indication &c. (calling attention to) 457. publicity &c. 531;
- disclosure &c. 529; openness &c. (honesty) 543, (artlessness) 703;
- panchement.
- V. make manifest, render manifest &c. adj.; bring forth, bring
- forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express;
- represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up ; expose; produce; hold up to
- view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one,
- one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to
- light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring
- out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the
- mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's
- colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of;
- unfurl the flag; proclaim &c. (publish) 531.
- indicate &c. (direct attention to) 457; disclose &c. 529; elicit &c.
- 480a.
- be manifest &c. adj.; appear &c. (be visible) 446; transpire &c. (be
- disclosed) 529; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face,
- rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale
- &c. (intelligible) 518.
- Adj. manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent,
- in the foreground, notable, pronounced.
- flagrant; notorious &c. (public) 531; arrant; stark staring; unshaded,
- glaring.
- defined, definite.
- distinct, conspicuous &c. (visible) 446; obvious, evident,
- unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident,
- autoptical; intelligible &c. 518.
- plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday; plain
- as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's
- face, plain as the way to parish church.
- explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day;
- naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric.
- unreserve, frank, plain-spoken &c. (artless) 703; barefaced.
- manifested &c. v.; disclosed &c. 529; capable of being shown,
- producible; inconcealable, unconcealable.
- Adv. manifestly, openly &c. adj.; before one's eyes, under one's nose,
- to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage,
- in open court, in the open streets; in market overt; in the face of day,
- face of heaven; in broad daylight, in open daylight; without reserve; at
- first blush, prima facie, on the face of; in set terms.
- Phr. cela saute aux yeux; he that runs may read; you can see it with
- half an eye; it needs no ghost to tell us [Hamlet]; the meaning lies on the
- surface; cela va sans dire; res ipsa loquitur; "clothing the palpable and
- familiar" [Coleridge]; fari quae sentiat; volto sciolto i pensieri stretti.
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- #526. Latency. Implication. -- N. {ant. 526} latency, inexpression;
- hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge;
- silence &c (taciturnity) 585; concealment &c. 528; more than meets the eye,
- more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes,
- undercurrent.
- implication.
- allusion, insinuation; innuendo &c. 527; adumbration; "something
- rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet].
- snake in the grass &c. (pitfall) 667; secret &c. 533.
- darkness, invisibility, imperceptility.
- V. be latent &c. adj.; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape
- observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid &c. 528.
- laugh in one's sleeve; keep back &c. (conceal) 528.
- involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference;
- whisper &c. (conceal) 528.
- Adj. latent; lurking &c.v.; secret &c. 528; occult; implied &c. v.;
- dormant; abeyant.
- unapparent, unknown, unseen &c. 441; in the background; invisible &c.
- 447; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable &c. (unintelligible) 519; unspied,
- unsuspected.
- unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold &c.
- 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed, undisclosed &c. 529, unexpressed; not
- expressed, tacit.
- undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered &c. 480a,
- untracked, unexplored, uninvented.
- indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication;
- implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic;
- understood, underhand, underground; delitescent, concealed &c. 528.
- Adv. by a side wind; sub silentio; in the background; behind the
- scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly &c. 528;
- between the lines.
- Phr. "thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub
- pectore vulnus [Vergil].
-
- #527. Information.-- N. information, enlightenment, acquaintenace,
- knowledge &c. 490; publicity &c. 531.
- communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation,
- annunciation; announcement; communiqu; representation, round robin,
- presentment.
- case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news &c. 532;
- return &c. (record) 551; account &c. (description) 594; statement &c.
- (affirmation) 535.
- mention; acquainting &c. v; instruction &c. (teaching) 537;
- outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.
- informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent,
- mouthpiece;
- informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy,
- newsmonger; messenger &c. 534; amicus curiae.
- valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; yade
- mecum; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary &c. (journey) 266.
- hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in
- the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay; geture &c. (indication) 550; gentle
- hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti; word to the wise; insinuation &c.
- (latency) 526.
- V. tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart
- to; make acquaintend with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken.
- let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make
- known; publish &c. 531; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of.
- let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice;
- set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one
- in possession of; instruct &c. (teach) 537; direct the attention to &c.
- 457.
- announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword, send word,
- leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an
- account; give an account &c. (describe) 594); state &c (affirm) 535.
- disclose &c. 529.
- show cause; explain &c. (interpret) 522.
- hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint;
- insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink &c.
- (indicate) 550; suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in
- the ear.
- give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak
- volumes.
- undeceive, unbeguile; set right, correct, open the eyes of, disabuse.
- be informed of &c.; know &c 490; learn &c. 539; get scent of, gather
- from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear,
- overhear, understand.
- come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears.
- Adj. informed &c. v.; communique; reported &c. v.; published &c. 531.
- expressive &c. 516; explicit &c. (open) 525, (clear) 518; plain spoken
- &c, (artless) 703.
- nuncupative, nuncupatory|; declaratory, expository; enunciative;
- communicative, communicatory.
- Adv. from information received.
- Phr. a little bird told me.
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- #528. Concealment.-- N. concealment; hiding &c. v.; occultation,
- mystification.
- seal of secrecy; screeen &c. 530; disguise &c. 530; masquerade; masked
- battery; hiding place &c. 530; cryptography, steganography; freemasonry.
- stealth, stealthiness; obreption|; slyness &c. (cunning) 702.
- latitancy, latitation; seclusion &c. 893; privacy, secrecy,
- secretness; incognita.
- reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee,
- suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence &c. (taciturnity) 585;
- suppression of truth &c. 544; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness
- &c. adj.; mystery.
- latency &c. 526; snake in the grass; secret &c. 533; stowaway.
- V. conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle
- up.
- cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from
- sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close
- the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask;
- mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.
- keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep
- secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view,
- keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into
- background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a
- question; ignore &c. 460.
- keep a secret, keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue &c. (silence)
- 585; make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe a word, not breathe a
- syllable about; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide
- one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin.
- keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind,
- blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle &c. (render uncertain)
- 475; bamboozle &c. (deceive) 545.
- be concealed &c. v.; suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide
- oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush; seclude
- oneself &c. 893; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out
- of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in
- holes and corners; still hunt.
- Adj. concealed &c. v.; hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic,
- occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular,
- clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.
- behind a screen &c. 530; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in
- hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark
- corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapt in clouds; invisible
- &c.447; buried, underground, perdu; secluded &c. 893.
- undisclosed &c. 529, untold &c. 527; covert &c. (latent) 526;
- mysterious &c. (unintelligible) 519.
- irrevealable, inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be spoken of.
- obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking &c. v.;
- surreptitiuos, underhand, hole and corner; sly &c. (cunning). 702;
- secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up;
- close, close as wax; taciturn &c. 585.
- Adv. secretly &c. adj.; in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in
- holes and corners; in the dark &c. adj.
- jnuis clausiss, with closed doors, a huis clos; hugger mugger, a la
- derobee; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table; sub rosa, en
- tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto
- voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine.
- behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil;
- hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms
- supersensible, into the supreme mystery.
- in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence;
- confidentially &c. adj.; between ourselves, between you and me; entre nous,
- inter nos, under the seal of secrecy; a couvert.
- underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily &c. adj.;
- behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen
- &c. 530; incognito; in camera.
- Phr. it must go no further, it will go no further; "tell it not in
- Gath," nobody the wiser; alitur vitium vivitque tegendo; "let it be tenable
- in your silence still"[Hamlet].
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- #529. Disclosure -- N. disclosure; retection|; unveiling &c.v.;
- deterration, revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose; whole
- truth; telltale &c (news) 532.
- acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift.
- bursting of a bubble; denouement.
- V. disclose, discover, dismask|; draw the veil, draw aside the veil,
- lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear
- aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal,
- unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose;
- open, open up; bare, bring to light.
- divulge, reveal, break; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the
- prison house; tell &c (inform) 527; breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out,
- let fall, let drop, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come
- out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips,
- blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out &c (make manifest) 525; make
- public &c 531; unriddle &c (find out) 480a; split.
- acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, confess, avow, throw
- off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand,
- show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden
- one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's
- mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft
- impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's)
- evidence; acknowledge the corn* [U.S.].
- raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw
- off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive, unbeguile; disabuse, set right,
- correct, open the eyes of; dsillusionner.
- be disclosed &c.; transpire, come to light; come in sight &c. (be
- visible) 446; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out,
- leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover &c.
- itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
- Adj. disclosed &c. v.
- Int.out with it!
- Phr. the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall
- from one's eyes; the eyes are opened.
-
- #530. Ambush [Means of concealment]. -- N. hiding place; secret place,
- secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum,
- abditory, oubliette.
- ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret
- path, back stairs; retreat &c. (refuge) 666.
- screen, cover, shade, blinker; veil, curtain, blind, cloak, cloud.
- mask, visor, vizor, disguise, masquerade dress, domino.
- pitfall &c. (source of danger) 667; trap &c. (snare) 545.
- V. lie in ambush &c (hide oneself) 528; lie in wait for; set a trap
- for &c (deceive) 545; ambuscade, ambush.
- Adv. aux aguets.
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- #531. Publication.-- N. publication; public announcement &c 527;
- promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento [Italian];
- circulation, indiction, edition; hue and cry.
- publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit; vox populi;
- report &c (news) 532.
- the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily;
- telegraphy; publisher &c v.; imprint.
- circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad., placard,
- bill, affiche, broadside, poster; notice &c. 527.
- V. publish; make public, make known &c (information) 527; speak of,
- talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate;
- spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evlugate; put forth,
- give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the
- public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to
- the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about,
- bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.
- proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet;
- trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum,
- anounce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at
- Charing Cross.
- advertise, placard; post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette,
- send round the crier.
- raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report; set news afloat.
- be published &c; be public, become public &c adj.; come out; go about,
- fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get
- wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass
- current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the
- length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora; pass from mouth to
- mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.
- Adj. published &c.v.; current &c. (news) 532; in circulation, public;
- notorious; flagrant, arrant; open &c 525; trumpet-tongued; encyclical,
- encyclic, promulgatory; exoteric.
- Adv. publicly &c. adj.; in open court, with open doors.
- Int. Oyez! O yes! notice!
- Phr. notice is hereby given; this is to give, these are to give
- notice; nomina stultorum parietibus haerent; semel emissum volat
- irrevocabile verbum..
-
- #532. News.-- N. news; information &c 527; piece of news, budget of
- news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings.
- word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable,
- marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy.
- report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry,
- buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle,
- table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.
- fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings.
- old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut*.
- narrator &c (describe) 594; newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer,
- telltale, gossip, tattler.
- V. transpire &c (be disclosed) 529; rumor &c (publish) 531.
- Adj. many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored,
- currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in
- circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town.
- Adv. as the story goes, as the story runs; as they say, it is said; by
- telegraph, by wireless.
- Phr. "airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton].
-
- #533. Secret.-- N. secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum,
- mystery; latency &c 526; Asian mystery; sealed book, secrets of the prison
- house; le desous des cartes.
- enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus,
- logogriph; monogram, anagram; Sphinx; crux criticorum.
- maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander.
- problem &c (question) 461; paradox &c (difficulty) 704;
- unintelligibilty &c. 519; terra incognita &c. (ignorance) 491.
- Adj. secret &c. (concealed) 528; involved &c, 248; labryrinthian,
- mazy.
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- #534. Messenger.-- N. messenger, envoy, emissary, legate; nuncio,
- internuncio; ambassador &c (diplomatist) 758.
- marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman, pursuivant,
- parlementaire, apparitor.
- courier, runner; dak, estafette; Mercury, Iris, Ariel.
- commissionaire; errand boy, chore boy; newsboy.
- mail; post, post office; letter bag; telegraph, telephone; cable, wire
- (electronic information transmission); carrier pigeon.
- reporter, gentleman of the press, representative of the press; penny-
- a-liner; special correspondent, own correspondent; spy, scout; informer &c.
- 527.
-
- #535. Affirmation.-- N. affirmance, affirmation; statement,
- allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment;
- confirmation.
- asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition &c
- (record) 551; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession;
- acknowledgment &c. (assent) 488; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemnment,
- averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.
- remark, observation; position &c. (proposition) 514, saying, dictum,
- sentence, ipse dixit.
- emphasis; weight; dogmatism &c. (certainty) 474; dogmatics &c 887.
- V. assert; make an assertion &c n.; have one's say; say, affirm,
- predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.
- put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate,
- broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend.
- depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take
- one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit;
- take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero; swear till
- one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till
- all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify,
- assure, swear by bell book and candle.
- swear by &c (believe) 484; insist upon, take one's stand upon;
- emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay
- down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out;
- repeat; reassert, reaffirm.
- announce &c (information) 527; acknowledge &c (assent) 488; attest &c
- (evidence) 467; adjure &c (put to one's oath) 768.
- Adj. asserting &c.v.; declaratory, predicatory, pronunciative,
- affirmative, soi-disant; positive; certain &c 474; express, explicit &c
- (patent) 525; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked,
- distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal,
- solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted; predicable.
- Adv. affirmatively &c adj.; in the affirmative.
- with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction.
- I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to
- say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my
- honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George, &c.;
- troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in
- earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured
- &c (belief) 484; yes &c (assent) 488; I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll
- engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take
- my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the
- matter.
- Phr. quoth he; dixi.
-
- #536. Negation. -- N. negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal,
- disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention; recusation, protest;
- recusancy &c (dissent) 489; flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction,
- emphatic denial, dementi.
- qualification &c 469; repudiation &c 610; retraction &c 607;
- confutation &c 479; refusal &c 764; prohibition &c 761.
- V. deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay,
- negative, shake the head.
- disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant &c 607; revoke &c
- (abrogate) 756.
- dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question,
- call in question &c. (doubt) 485; give (one) the lie in his throat.
- deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely,
- deny wholly, deny entirely; give the lie to, belie.
- repudiate &c 610; set aside, ignore &c 460; rebut &c. (confute) 479;
- qualify &c 469; refuse &c 764.
- Adj. denying &c.v.; denied &c.v.; contradictory; negative, negatory;
- recusant &c (dissenting) 489; at issue upon.
- Adv. no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at
- all, not in the least, not so; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing
- of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en
- faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means;
- negatively.
- Phr. there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in
- faedera.
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- #537. Teaching.-- N. teaching &c.v.; instruction; edification;
- education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy.
- qualification, preparation; training, schooling &cv.; discipline;
- exercise, excitation; drill, practice.
- persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda; indoctrination,
- inculcation, inoculation.
- explanation &c (interpretation) 522; lesson, lecture, sermon;
- apologue, parable; discourse, prolection, preachment; chalk talk;
- Chautauqua [U.S.].
- exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three
- R's, initiation, A.B.C. &c (beginning) 66.
- elementary education, primary education, secondary education,
- technical education, college education, collegiate education, military
- education, university education, liberal education, classical education,
- religious education, demoninational education, moral education, secular
- education; propaedeutics, moral tuition.
- gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education; sloyd.
- V. teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach;
- enlighten &c (inform) 527.
- inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft,
- infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of,
- disseminate.
- given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right.
- sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes,
- bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot" [Thomson]; improve &c.
- 658.
- expound &c (interpret) 522; lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson,
- give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept; hold forth,
- preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral.
- train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare,
- qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture,
- drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct;
- initiate; inure &c (habituate) 613.
- put to nurse, send to school.
- direct, guide; direct attention to &c. (attention) 457; impress upon
- the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince
- &c (belief) 484.
- Adj. teaching &c.v; taught &c.v.; educational; scholastic, academic,
- doctrinal; disciplinal; instructive, didactic; propaedeutic,
- propaedeutical.
- Phr. the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor; adeo
- in teneris consuecere multum est [Vergil]; docendo discimus; quaenocent
- docent; qui docet discit; "sermons in stones and good in everything' [As
- You Like It].
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- #538. Misteaching.-- N. misteaching, misinformaton, misintelligence,
- misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion, misinstruction, misleading &c.v.;
- perversion, false teaching; sophistry &c 477; college of Laputa; the blind
- leading the blind.
- V. misinform, misteach, misdescribe, misdirect, misguide, misinstruct,
- miscorrect; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent; deceive &c
- 545; mislead &c (error) 495; misrepresent; lie &c 544; ambiguas in vulgum
- spargere voces [Vergil], preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to
- suck eggs.
- render unintelligible &c 519; bewilder &c (uncertainty) 475; mystify
- &c. (conceal) 528; unteach.
- Adj. misteaching &c.v; unedifying.
- Phr. piscem natare doces.
-
- #539. Learning -- N. learning; acquisition of knowledge &c 490,
- acquisition of skill &c 698; acquirement, attainment; edification,
- scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self-
- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry &c 451.
- apprenticeship, prenticeship; pupilage, pupilarity; tutelage,
- novitiate, matriculation.
- docility &c (willingness) 602; aptitude &c 698.
- V. learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take
- in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge,
- gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean
- knowledge, glean information, glean learning.
- acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself
- acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by
- rote.
- read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through;
- dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves.
- study; be studious &c adj.; consume the midnight oil, mind one's book.
- go to school, go to college, go to the university; serve an (or one's)
- apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be informed &c 527; be
- taught &c 537.
- Adj. studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile &c (willing)
- 602; apt &c 698, industrious &c 682.
- Adv. at one's books; in statu pupillari &c (learner) 541.
- Phr. "a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora imparo!
- "hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]; "lash'd into Latin by
- the tingling rod" [Gay].
-
- #540. Teacher. -- N. teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master,
- tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don;
- governor, bear leader; governess, duenna; disciplinarian.
- professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher; chalk
- talker, khoja; pastor &c (clergy) 996; schoolmaster, dominie, usher,
- pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher.
- expositor &c 524; preceptor, guide; guru; mentor &c (adviser) 695;
- pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example &c (model for
- imitation) 22.
- professorship &c (school) 542.
- tutelage &c (teaching) 537.
- Adj. professorial
- Phr. qui doet discet.
-
- #541. Learner.-- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice,
- prentice; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, abecedarian, alphabetarian;
- alumnus, eleve.
- recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor, catechumen, probationer; chela,
- fellow-commoner; debutant.
- schoolboy; fresh, freshman; junior soph, junior; senior soph, senior;
- sophister, sophomore; questionist.
- undergraduate.
- class, form, remove; pupilage &c (learning) 539.
- disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple.
- Adj. in statu pupillari, in leading strings.
-
- #542. School.-- N. school, academy, university, alma mater, college,
- seminary, Lyceum; institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class,
- seminar.
- day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school,
- infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board
- school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school,
- collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County
- Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher
- grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, state-aided
- school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art;
- kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory.
- pulpit, desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater,
- amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune.
- school book, horn book, text book; grammar, primer, abecedary,
- rudiments, manual, vade mecum; encyclopedia, cyclopedia; Lindley Murray,
- Cocker; dictionary, lexicon.
- professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship; chair.
- School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of
- Studies, Prefect of Studies; Textbook Committee; propaganda.
- Adj. scholastic, academic, collegiate; educational.
- Adv. ex cathedra.
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- #543. Veracity.-- N. veracity; truthfulness, frankness, &c. adj.;
- truth, sincerity, candor, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides;
- love of truth; probity &c. 939; ingenuousness &c (artlessness) 703.
- the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth,
- sober truth &c (fact) 494; unvarnished tale; light of truth.
- V. speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the card; paint in its
- true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean breast &c
- (disclose) 529; speak one's mind &c. (be blunt) 703; not lie &c 544, not
- deceive &c. 545.
- Adj. truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous &c (honorable)
- 939; sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open
- hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling
- &c (dissemble &c 544); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true
- blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken,
- ingenuous &c (artless) 703; undisguised &c (real) 494.
- Adv. truly &c (really) 494; in plain words &c 703; in truth, with
- truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to
- the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth, in good earnest; unfeignedly,
- with no nonsense, in sooth, sooth to say, bona fide, in foro conscientiae;
- without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by
- my troth &c (affirmation) 535.
- Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo; Dichtung und Wahrheit; esto
- guod esse videris; magna est veritas et praevalet; "that golden key that
- opes the palace of eternity" [Milton]; veritas odium parit; veritatis
- simplex oratio est; verite sans peur.
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- #544. Falsehood. -- N. falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification;
- deception &c. 545; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c. 454; untruth &c 546;
- guile; lying &c. v. misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing;
- forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin.
- perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri;
- perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration &c 549; prevarication,
- equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi &c (lie)
- 546; mystification &c (concealment) 528; simulation &c (imitation) 19;
- dissimulation, dissembling; decit; blague.
- sham; pretense, pretending, malingering.
- lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere
- outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug;
- jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy';
- crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness, quackery; charlatanism, charlatanry;
- gammon; bun-kum, bumcombe, flam; bam*, flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas
- kiss; perfidy &c (bad faith) 940; il volto sciotlo i pensieri stretti.
- unfairness &c (dishonesty) 940; artfulness &c (cunning) 702;
- misstatement &c (error) 495.
- V. be false &c adj., be a liar &c 548; speak falsely &c adv.; tell a
- lie &c. 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure
- oneself, bear false witness.
- misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify,
- pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c. (misinterpret)
- prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding;
- repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the
- bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
- garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a
- gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider;
- varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate &c 549; blague.
- invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct;
- romance &c (imagine) 515; cry "wolf!'
- dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe;
- play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a
- part; affect &c. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a
- show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.
- cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put
- on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand
- out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend
- the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere
- voces; deceive &c 545.
- Adj. false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest,
- faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive;
- uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.
- canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish;
- Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double
- minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth
- spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected &c 855.
- collusive, collusory; artful &c (cunnint) 702; perfidious &c 940;
- spurious &c (deceptive) 545; untrue &c 546; falsified &c v.; covinous.
- Adv. falsely &c adj.; a la Tartufe, with a double tongue; silly &c
- (cunning) 702.
- Phr. blandae mendacia lingua; falsus in uno falsus in omnibus; "I give
- him joy that's awkward at a lie" [Young]; la mentira tiene las piernas
- cortas; "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" [Merchant of Venice]
-
- #545. Deception. -- N. deception; falseness &c 544; untruth &c 546;
- imposition, inposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence, fraudulency;
- covin; knavery &c. (cunning) 702; misrepresentation &c (falsehood) 544;
- bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.]; spoof*.
- delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain;
- prestigiation|, prestidigitation; magic &c 992; conjuring, conjuriation;
- hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery|, chicanery;
- supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation|, collusion; treachery &c
- 940; practical joke.
- trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch,
- chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; thimblerig; card sharping, artful
- dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem &c (artifice) 702;
- confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft &c. 791; ballot-box stuffing [U.S.]
- barney*, brace* game, bunko game, drop* game, gum* game, [U.S.] panel game,
- shell game, skin* game [U.S.].
- snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe, springle|; noose, hoot;
- bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb, net,
- meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea, Venus's flytrap; ambush &c
- 530; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom; spring-net, spring net, spring
- gun, mask, masked battery; mine; flytrap; green goods [U.S.]; panel house.
- Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing &c (deceiver) 548; disguise,
- disguisement; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de
- velours.
- mockery &c (imitation) 19; copy &c 21; counterfeit, sham, make-
- believe, forgery, fraud; lie &c 546; "a delusion a mockery and a snare"
- [Denman], hollow mockery.
- whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel, paste, false jewelry,
- scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia
- metal, paint; jerry building; man of straw.
- illusion &c (error) 495; ignis fatuus &c 423; mirage &c 443.
- V. deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab,
- chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize;
- abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the
- eyes, "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"
- [Macbeth].
- impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm upon, foist
- upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush*, gum* [U.S.],
- spoof*, stuff (a ballot box) [U.S.].
- circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march
- upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch
- set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay,
- spread the toils, lime; decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle;
- trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; trick; entrap, intrap, ensnare;
- nick, springe; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; immesh; shanghai; catch,
- catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice
- on one's creduility, dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle; hum,
- humbug; gammon, stuff up*, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical
- joke upon one; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of
- one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an
- April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over &c.
- (influence) 615; gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good
- face upon; dissemble &c 544.
- cog, cog the dice; live by one's wits, play at hide and seek; obtain
- money under false pretenses &c (steal) 791; conjure, juggle, practice
- chicanery; deacon [U.S.].
- play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off.
- lie &c 544; misinform &c 538; mislead &c (error) 495; betray &c 940;
- be deceived &c 547.
- Adj. deceived &c v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c 702; prestigious|,
- prestigiatory|; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, covinous; delusive,
- delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus.
- untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide*, pseudo,
- spurious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus, scamped,
- fraudulent, tricky, factitious, artificial, bastard; surreptititous,
- illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at
- the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated;
- catchpenny; Brummagem; simulated &c 544.
- Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the
- left.
- Phr. fronti nulla fides; "ah that deceit should steal such gentle
- shapes" [Rich. III]; "a quicksand of deceit' [Hen. VI]; decipimur specie
- recti [Hor.]; falsi crimen; fraus est celare fraudem; lupus in fabula; "so
- smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue" [Rich. III].
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- #546. Untruth.-- N. untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not,
- fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth.
- forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation;
- perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi; exaggeration &c 549.
- invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance &c
- (imagination) 515; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up
- story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave,
- sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy
- tale, fake, press agent's yarn; claptrap.
- myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest,
- farce.
- irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation &c
- (concealment) 528.
- pretense, pretext; false plea &c 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift,
- shuffle, make-believe; sham &c (deception) 545.
- profession, empty words; Judas kiss &c (hypocrisy) 544; disguise &c
- (mask) 530.
- V. have a false meaning.
- Adj. untrue, false, trumped up; void of foundation, without-
- foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded,
- ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious,
- factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory, illusory; ironical;
- soi-disant &c (misnamed) 565.
- Phr. se non e vero e ben trovato; "where none is meant that meets the
- ear" [Milton]
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- #547. Dupe.-- N. dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull*, cully,
- victim, pigeon, April fool; jay*, sucker*; laughingstock &c 857; Cyclops,
- simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool &c 501; puppet, cat's paw.
- V. be deceived &c 545, be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the
- bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar.
- Adj. credulous &c 486; mistaken &c. (error) 495.
-
- #548. Deceiver.-- N. deceiver &c (deceive &c 545); dissembler,
- hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface,
- Tartfufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in
- sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon.
- liar &c (lie &c 544); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a
- triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer* [U.S.], carpetbagger* [U.S.], capper*
- [U.S.], faker, fraud, four flusher*, horse coper, ringer*, spieler, straw
- bidder [U.S.].
- imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro,
- Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin &c (bungler) 701; actor &c (stage
- player) 599.
- quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric,
- quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.
- conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy,
- decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler &c (thief) 792; jobber.
- Phr. "saint abroad and a devil at home" [Bunyan].
-
- #549. Exaggeration.-- N. exaggeration,; expansion &c 194; hyperbole,
- stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura;
- extravagance &c. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn,
- fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry*
- storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482;
- puff, puffery &c (boasting) 884; rant &c (turgescence) 577.
- figure of speech, facon de parler; stretch of fancy, stretch of the
- imagination; flight of fancy &c (imagination) 515.
- false coloring &c (falsehood) 544; aggravation &c. 835.
- V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194;
- overestimate &c 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay,
- overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain,
- strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a
- long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the
- marvelous.
- out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.
- heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish;
- color &c. (misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.
- Adj. exaggerated &c. v.; overwrought; bombastic &c. (grandiloquent)
- 577; hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous,
- egregious, outre, highflying.
- Adv. hyperbolically &c adj.
- Phr. excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Cicero].
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- Section III. MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
- 1. Natural Means
-
- #550 Indication -- N. indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology,
- semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics; Zeitgeist.
- [means of recognition] lineament, feature, trait, characteristic,
- diagnostic; divining rod; cloven hoof; footfall.
- sign, symbol; index, indice|, indicator; point, pointer; exponent,
- note, token, symptom; dollar mark.
- type, figure, emblem, cipher, device; representation &c. 554;
- epigraph, motto, posy.
- gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug,
- beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy,
- chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint &c. 527; clue, clew, key, scent.
- signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower;
- telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph;
- guidon; headlight.
- mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot,
- point, notch, nick; asterisk, red letter, italics, sublineation,
- underlining, jotting; print; imprint, impress, impression; note,
- annotation; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, tilde.
- [For identification badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark,
- countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter,
- counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness,
- voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark; signature, autograph,
- autography; attestation; hand, hand writing, sign manual; cipher; seal,
- sigil, signet; paraph, brand; superscription; indorsement, endorsement;
- title, heading, docket; mot de passe, mot du guet; pass-parole; shibboleth;
- password, watchword, catchword; address card, visiting card; carte de
- visite; credentials &c. (evidence) 467; open sesame; timbrology.
- insignia; banner, banneret, bannerol; bandrol; flag, colors,
- streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme; figurehead;
- ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee, blue Peter, jack, ancient,
- gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory " [U.S.], quarantine flag;
- vexillum; yellow-flag, yellow jack; tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting.
- heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings, hatchment;
- escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery, uniform; cockade,
- epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor.
- [Of locality] beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer,
- vane, cock, weathercock; guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directingpost,
- signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-fire; l'etoile du
- Nord; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize; polestar, loadstar, lodestar;
- cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard.
- [Of the future] warning &c. 668; omen &c. 512; prefigurement &c. 511.
- [Of the past] trace, record &c. 551. [Of danger] warning &c. 668; alarm &c.
- 669. [Of authority] scepter &c. 747. [Of triumph] trophy &c. 733. [Of
- quantity] gauge &c. 466. [Of distance] milestone, milepost. [Of disgrace]
- brand, fool's cap. [For detection] check, telltale; test &c. (experiment)
- 463; mileage ticket; milliary.
- notification &c. (information) 527; advertisement &c. (publication)
- 531.
- word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry;
- battle cry, rallying cry; angelus; reveille; sacring bell, sanctus bell.
- exposition &c. (explanation) 522, proof &c. (evidence) 463; pattern
- &c. (prototype) 22.
- V. indicate; be the -sign &c. n.- of; denote, betoken; argue, testify
- &c. (evidence) 467; bear the -impress &c. n.- of; connote, connotate.
- represent, stand for; typify &c. (prefigure) 511; symbolize.
- put an indication, put a mark &c. n.; note, mark, stamp, earmark;
- blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print;
- imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.
- make a sign &c. n. signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a
- signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink;
- gesticulate; raise the finger , hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up
- the hand; saw the air, "suit the action to the word" [Hamlet].
- wave a banner, unfurl a banner, hoist a banner, hang out a banner &c.
- n.; wave the hand, wave a kerchief; give the cue &c. (inform) 527; show
- one's colors; give an alarm, sound an alarm; beat the drum, sound the
- trumpets, raise a cry.
- sign, seal, attest &c. (evidence) 467; underline &c. (give importance
- to) 642; call attention to &c. (attention) 457; give notice &c. (inform)
- 527.
- Adj. indicating &c. v., indicative, indicatory; denotative,
- connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic,
- pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic,
- exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual &c. (special) 79.
- known by, recognizable by; indicated &c. v.; pointed, marked.
- [Capable of being denoted] denotable; indelible.
- Adv. in token of; symbolically &c. adj.; in dumb show.
- Phr. ecce signum; ex ungue leonem, ex pede Herculem; vide ut supra;
- vultus ariete fortior.
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- #551. Record. -- N. trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix;
- footstep, footmark, footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste.
- monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk,
- pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento &c. (memory) 505; testimonial,
- medal; commemoration &c. (celebration) 883.
- record, note, minute; register, registry; roll &c. (list) 86;
- cartulary, diptych, Domesdaybook; catalogue raisonne; entry, memorandum,
- indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch &c. (mark) 550;
- muniment, deed &c. (security) 771; document; deposition, proces verbal;
- affidavit; certificate &c. (evidence) 467.
- notebook, memorandumbook, pocketbook, commonplace book; portfolio;
- pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings.
- gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack;
- calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook, petty
- cashbook.
- archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book; statistics &c. 86;
- compte rendu; Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of; Hansard's Debates;
- chronicle,annals, legend; history, biography &c. 594; Congressional
- Records.
- registration; registry; enrollment, inrollment; tabulation; entry,
- booking; signature &c (identification) 550; recorder &c. 553; journalism.
- V. record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand
- down to posterity; keep up the memory &c. (remember) 505; commemorate &c.
- (celebrate) 883; report &c. (inform) 527; commit to writing, reduce to
- writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white;
- put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down; note,
- minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum;
- make a return.
- mark &c. (indicate) 550; sign &c. (attest) 467.
- enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick
- off; register, enroll, inscroll; file &c. (store) 636.
- Adv. on record.
- Phr. exegi monumentum aere perennium [Horace]; "read their history in
- a nation's eyes" [Gray] ; " records that defy the tooth of time " [Young].
-
- #552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration. -- N. obliteration;
- erasure, rasure; cancel, cancellation; circumduction; deletion, blot;
- tabula rasa; effacement, extinction.
- V. efface, obliterate, erase, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take
- out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe
- off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through,
- apply the sponge.
- be effaced &c.; leave no trace &c. 550; "leave not a rack behind."
- Adj. obliterated &c. v.; out of print; printless; leaving no trace;
- intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
- Int. dele; out with it!
- Phr. delenda est Carthago [Cato].
-
- #553. Recorder. -- N. recorder, notary, clerk; registrar, registrary,
- register; prothonotary; amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer,
- bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls.
- annalist; historian, historiographer; chronicler, journalist;
- biographer &c. (narrator) 594; antiquary &c. (antiquity) 122; memorialist;
- interviewer.
-
- #554. Representation. -- N. representation, representment; imitation
- &c. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture,
- iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting &c. 556; sculpture
- &c. 557; engraving &c. 558; photography, cinematography; radiography,
- autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy.
- personation, personification; impersonation; drama &c. 599.
- picture.
- copy &c. 21; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure,
- scheme.
- image, likeness, icon, portrait , striking likeness, speaking
- likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile.
- figure , figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-
- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue,
- statuette.
- hieroglyphic, anaglyph; diagram, monogram.
- map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation; ichnography,
- cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view &c. (painting) 556; radiograph,
- scotograph, sciagraph; spectrogram, heliogram.
- V. represent, delineate; depict, depicture; portray; take a likeness,
- catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype; snapshot;
- figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe &c. 594;
- trace, copy; mold.
- dress up; illustrate, symbolize.
- paint &c. 556; carve &c. 557; engrave &c. 558.
- personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act;
- play &c. (drama) 599; mimic &c. (imitate) 19; hold the mirror up to nature.
- Adj. represent, representing &c. v., representative; *illustrative;
- represented &c. v.; imitative, figurative; iconic.
- like &c. 17; graphic &c. (descriptive) 594; cinquecento quattrocento,
- trecento.
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- #555. Misrepresentation. -- N. misrepresentation, distortion,
- caricatura|, exaggeration; daubing &c. v.; bad likeness, daub, sign
- painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis; burlesque, falsification,
- misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty.
- V. misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub;
- burlesque, parody, travesty.
- Adj. misrepresented &c. v.
-
-
-
- #556. Painting. -- N. painting; depicting; drawing &c. v.; design;
- perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy; chiaroscuro &c. (light) 420
- composition; treatment.
- historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape
- painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting;
- scenography.
- school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture;
- ornamental art &c. 847.
- monochrome, polychrome; grisaille.
- pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal,
- crayons, chalk, pastel; paint &c. (coloring matter) 428; watercolor, body
- color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish &c. 356a, priming; gouache,
- tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting;
- mosaic; tapestry.
- photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting.
- picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting &c.; fresco,
- cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil &c.
- drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch,
- outline, study.
- photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph,
- heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype.
- portrait &c. (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half
- length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.
- landscape, seapiece; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama; still
- life.
- picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca.
- V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple,
- hatch,
- dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish; draw in
- pencil
- &c. n.; paint in oils &c. n.; stencil; depict &c. (represent) 554.
- Adj. painted &c. v.; pictorial, graphic, picturesque.
- pencil, oil &c. n.
- Adv. in pencil &c. n.
- Phr. fecit, delineavit; mutum est pictura poema.
-
- #557. Sculpture. -- N. sculpture, insculpture| ; carving &c. v.;
- statuary.
- high relief, low relief, bas relief; relief; relieve; bassorilievo,
- altorilievo, mezzorilievo; intaglio, anaglyph; medal, medallion; cameo.
- marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery,
- porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon,
- satsuma.
- statue.&c. (image) 554; cast &c (copy) 21; glyptotheca.
- V. sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; *cast.
- Adj. sculptured &c, v. in refief, anaglyptic, ceroplastic, ceramic;
- parian; marble &c. n.; xanthian.
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- #558. Engraving. -- N. engraving, chalcography; line engraving,
- mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur;
- etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving,
- steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography,
- cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography,
- glyphograph,y xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph,
- chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.
- impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching;
- mezzotint, aquating, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype,
- autotype, heliotype.
- graver, burin, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block,
- negative; die, punch, stamp.
- printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing,
- color printing, lithographic printing; type printing &c. 591; three-color
- process.
- illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial
- letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece.
- V. engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph
- &c., n.; print.
- Adj. insculptured; engraved &c. v.
- Phr. sculpsit, imprimit.
-
- #559. Artist. -- N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, stketcher,
- designer, engraver; master, old master; draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack;
- enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.
- historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter,
- portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign
- painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles; sculptor, carver, chaser,
- modeler, figuriste, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.
- photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician,
- camera buff; wildlife photographer.
- Phr. photo safari; "with gun and camera"
-
-
- 2. Conventional Means
- 1
- . Language generally
-
- #560. Language. -- N. language; phraseology &c. 569; speech &c. 582;
- tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongu, native tongue;
- household words; King's or Queen's English; dialect &c. 563.
- confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime &c. (signs) 550;
- onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmitation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy.
- lexicology, philogy, glossology, glottology; linguistics,
- chrestomathy; paleology, paleography; comparative grammar.
- literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses,
- humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages,
- classics; genius of language; scholarship &c. (scholar) 492.
- V. express by words &c. 566.
- Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual;
- diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.
- Phr. "syllables govern the world" [Selden].
-
- #561. Letter. -- N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c. (writing) 590;
- type &c. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph;
- majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC, abecedary,
- christcross-row.
- consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, liquid, labial, dental,
- guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, suffix.
- spelling, orthograph; phonography, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism,
- metagrammatism. cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic.
- V. spell.
- Adj. literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular,
- minuscular; uncial &c. (writing) 590.
-
- #562. Word. -- N. word, term, vocable; name &c. 564; phrase &c. 566;
- root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c. (grammar) 567; ideophone.
- dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, index, glossary, thesaurus, gradus,
- delectus, concordance.
- etymology, derivation; glossology, terminology orismology; paleology
- &c. (philogy) 560.
- lexocography; glossography &c. (scholar) 492; lexicologist, verbarian.
- Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal. [Similarly derived] conjugat,
- paronymous; derivative.
- Adv. verbally &c. adj.; verbatim &c. (exactly) 494.
- Phr. " the artillery of words" [Swift].
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- #563. Neologism. -- N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression;
- caconym; barbarism; archaism, black letter, monkish Latin; corruption,
- missayingk, antiphrasis.
- paranomasia, play upon words; word play &c. (wit) 842; double-entendre
- &c. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse
- of terms.
- dialect, brogue, patois, provincialism, broken English, lingua fraca;
- Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism;
- Gypsy lingo, Romany, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto,
- Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
- dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; jargon;
- babu English, chi-chi.
- colloquialism &c. (figure of speech) 521; byword; technicality, lingo,
- slang, cant, argot, St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French,
- flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.
- pseudology.
- pseudonym &c. (misnomer) 565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em,
- whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi.
- neologist, coiner of words.
- V. coin words; Americanize, Anglicize.
- Adj. neologic, neological; archaic; obsolete &c. (old) 124;
- colloquial; Anglice.
-
- #564. Nomenclature. -- N. nomenclature; naming &c. v.; nuncupation|,
- nomination, baptism; orismology; onomatopoeia; antonomasia.
- name; appelation, appelative; designation title; heading; caption;
- denomination; by-name, epithet.
- style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname;
- cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty title,
- empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.
- term, expression, noun;.byword; convertible terms &c. 522; technical
- term; cant &c. 563.
- V. name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe, dub,
- christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name
- of; label &c. (mark) 550.
- be -called &c v.; take the name of, bean the name of, go (or be known ) by
- the name of, go (or pass) under th ename of, rejoice in the name of.
- Adj. named &c. v.; hight, yeleped, known as; what one may well, call
- fairly, call properly, call fitly.
- nuncupatory, nuncupative; cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological.
- Phr. "beggar'd all description" [Antony and Cleopatra].
-
- #565. Misnomer. -- N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo;; Mrs. Malaprop;
- what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563; Hoosier.
- nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom
- de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym,
- pseudonymy.
- V. misname, miscall, misterm; nickname; assume a name.
- Adj. misnamed &c. v.; pseudonymous; soi-disant; self called, self
- styled, self christened; so-called.
- nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed;
- unacknowledged.
- Adv. in no sense.
-
- #566. Phrase. -- N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence,
- paragraph; figure of speech &c. 521; idiom, idiotism; turn of expression;
- style.
- paraphrase &c. (synonym) 522; periphrase &c. (circumlocution) 573
- motto &c. (proverb) 496.
- phraseology &c. 569.
- V. express, phrase; word, - it; give -words, - expression -to; voice
- arrange in word, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch
- in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate,
- designate, dub.
- Adj. expressed &c. v.; idiomatic.
- Adv. in round, in set, in good, set- terms; inset phrases.
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- #567. Grammar. -- N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation;
- parts of speech; jussive; syllabication; inflection, case, declension,
- conjugation; us et norma loquendi; Lindley Murray &c. (schoolbook) 542;
- correct style, philology &c. (language) 560.
- V. parse, punctuate, syllabicate.
-
- #568. Solecism. -- N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty
- grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop;
- bull; barbarism, impropriety.
- V. use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism;
- murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's
- head.
- Adj. ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper,
- incongruous; solecistic, solecistical.
-
- #569. Style. -- N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner,
- strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech,
- literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language &c.
- (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire..
- V. express by words &c. 566; write.
- Phr. le style *c'est de l'homme [Buffon]; "style is the dress of
- thoughts " [Chesterfield].
-
- Various Qualities of Style
-
- #570. Perspicuity. -- N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c.
- (intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c. (manifestation) 525;
- definiteness, definition; exactness &c. 494; explicitness, lucidness.
- Adj. lucid &c. (intelligible) 518; explicit &c. (manifest) 525; exact
- &c. 494.
-
- #571. Obscurity. -- N. obscurity &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
- involution; hard words; ambiguity &c. 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness
- &c. 475, inexactness &c. 495; what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563;
- darkness of meaning.
- Adj. obscure &c. n.; crabbed, involved, confused.
-
- #572. Conciseness. -- N. conciseness &c. adj.; brevity, " the soul of
- wit," laconism; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c. (shortening)
- 201; compression &c. 195; epitome &c. 596; monostich; brunch word,
- portmanteau word.
- V. be concise &c. adj.; condense &c. 195; abridge &c. 201; abstract
- &c. 596; come to the point.
- Adj. concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat,
- compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant,
- summary; pregnant; compendious &c. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical,
- epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.
- Adv. concisely &c. adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a
- word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a
- long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this,
- the long and the short of it is.
- Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Horace].
-
- #573. Diffuseness. -- N. diffuseness &c. adj.; amplification &c. v.;
- dilating &c. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum; flow
- of words &c. (loquacity) 584; looseness.
- Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology|; pleonasm, exuberance,
- redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages ;
- periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-
- lining; richness &c. 577.
- V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge,
- dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launchout, branchout; rant.
- maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.
- digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate,
- spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize.
- Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
- exuberant, pleonast'c, lengthy; longsome, longwinded, longspun, longdrawn
- out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory,
- periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive;
- loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
- Adv. diffusely &c. adj.; at large, in extenso; about it and about it.
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- #574. -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c. adj.;
- intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquancy; verve, glow,
- fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation,
- loftiness, sublimity.
- eloquence; command of words, command of language.
- Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerfor, forcible, trenchang, incisive,
- impressive; sensational.
- spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent,
- piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.
- lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned;
- poetic.
- Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms.
- Phr. "thoughts that breath and words that burn" [Gray].
-
- #575. Feebleness. -- N. feebleness &c. adj.
- Adj. feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, trashy, cold, frigid,
- poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic;
- unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight; careless,
- slovenly, loose, lax; slipslod, slip slop; inexact; puerile, childish;
- flatulent; rambling &c. (diffuse) 573.
-
- #576. Plainness. -- N. plainness &c. adj.; simplicity, severity; plain
- terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
- V. call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
- Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely,
- homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact,
- natural, prosaic.
- dry, unvaried,monotonous &c. 575.
- Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common
- parlance; point-blank.
-
- #577. Ornament. -- N. ornament; floridness c. adj. turgidity,
- turgescence; altiloquence &c. adj.; declamation, teratiology; well-rounded
- periods; elegance &c. 578; orotundity.
- inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasio; figurativeness &c.
- (metaphor) 521.
- flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style,
- euphuism, euphemism.
- big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology, sespuipedalia
- verba, Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose
- run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality; Minerva press.
- phrasemonger; euphuist, euphemist.
- V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.
- Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich,
- flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding;
- inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted;
- orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory;
- grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy,
- flaming.
- antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c. 521; artificial &c.
- (inelegant) 579.
- Adv. ore rutundo.
-
- #578. Elegance. -- N elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness,
- readiness &c. adj.; concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism,
- classicalism, classicism.
- well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right
- word in the right place; antithesis &c. 577.
- *purist.
- V. point an antithesis, round a period.
- Adj. elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Cieceronian,
- artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical.
- graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected,
- natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic;
- numerose|, rhythmical.
- felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly
- expressed
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- #579. Inelegance. -- N. inelegance; stiffness &c. adj.; "unlettered
- Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c. 563; solecism &c. 568; mannerism &c.
- (affectation) 855; euphuism; fustian &c. 577; cacophony; words that break
- the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism.
- V. be inelegant &c. adj.
- Adj. inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff,
- cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous;
- awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid &c. 577; affected, euphuistic;
- barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears
- polite.
- 2. Spoken Language
-
- #580. Voice. -- N. voice; vocality; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice,
- fine voice, powerful voice &c. (loud) 404;, musical voice &c. 413;
- intonation; tone of voice &c. (sound) 402 .
- vocalization; cry &c. 411; strain, utterance, prolation; exclamation,
- ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis; enunciation, articulation;
- articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper;
- delivery.
- accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent,
- pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.
- [Word similarly pronounced] homonym.
- orthoepy; cacoepy; euphony &c. (melody) 413.
- gastriloquism, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism, polyphonist.
- [Science of voice] phonology &c. (sound) 402.
- V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c. (shout) 411;
- ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate|, articulate, enunciate, pronounce,
- accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.
- Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct,
- stertorous; euphonious &c. (melodious) 413.
- Phr. "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman" [Massinger]; "the
- organ of the soul" [Longfellow]; "thy voice is a celestial melody"
- [Longfellow].
-
- #581. Aphony. -- N. aphony, aphonia; dumbness &c. adj.; obmutescence;
- absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoopy; silence &c.
- (taciturnity) 585; raucity; harsh voice &c. 410 , unmusical voice &c. 414 ;
- falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.
- V. keep silence &c. 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper &c.
- (faintness) 405.
- silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress,
- smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence,
- stop one's mouth, cut one short.
- stick in the throat.
- Adj. aphonous, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied;
- breatless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish,
- mute as a stockfish, mute as a mackerel; silent &c. (taciturn) 585;
- muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
- croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a
- raven; rough.
- Adv. with bated breath, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce; in a
- low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice.
- Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Vergil].
-
- #582. Speech. -- N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk,
- parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth,
- parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
- oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon,
- tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c. 589;
- allocution &c. 586; interlocution &c. 588; salutatory [U.S.]: screed:
- valedictory [U.S.].
- oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence,
- multiloquence; burst of eloquence; facundity; flow of words, command of
- words, command of language; copia verborum; power of speech, gift of the
- gab; usus loquendi.
- speaker &c. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece,
- Hermes; orator, oratrix, oratress; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump
- orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore.
- V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter
- forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out
- have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of
- one's tongue.
- break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice,
- raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak; put in
- a word or two.
- hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech &c. n.; speechify,
- harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse,
- be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent
- one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate &c. (speak at length) 573; speak
- one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U. S.].
- soliloquize &c. 589; tell &c. (inform) 527; speak to &c. 586; talk
- together &c. 588.
- be eloquent &c. adj; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the
- gab &c. n.
- pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the
- mouth.
- Adj. speaking &c., spoken &c. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not
- written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical,
- rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c. 577; talkative &c. 584;
- Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
- Adv. orally &c. adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
- Phr. quoth he, said he &c.; "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; "pour
- the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]; "she speaks poignards and every
- word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "speech is but broken light upon the
- depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time
- [Antony and Cleopatra].
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- #583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering. -- N. inarticulateness;
- stammering &c. v.; hesitation &c. v.; impediment in one's speech;
- titubancy, traulism|; whisper &c. (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl,
- tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c. (want of
- voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
- brogue &c. 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae
- V. stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate|,
- balbucinate|, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.
- mumble, mutter; maud|, mauder; whisper &c. 405; mince, lisp; jabber,
- gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick,
- speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's wordds; murder the language,
- murder the King's (or Queen's) English; mispronounce, missay.
- Adj. stammering &c. v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous;
- affected.
- Adv. sotto voce &c. (faintly) 405.
-
- #584. Loquacity. -- N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c.
- adj.; garrulity; multiloquence, much speaking.
- jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle,
- twattle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble,
- gibble-gabble; small talk &c. (converse) 588.
- fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words;.flux
- de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor
- loquendi; verbosity &c. (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab &c. (eloquence)
- 582.
- talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler &c. v.; rattle; ranter;
- sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite [U. S.]; gossip &c. (converse)
- 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles..
- V. be loquacious &c. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate,
- palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter,
- blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattlle; babble, gabble; outtalk;
- talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hourse; exxpatiate &c. (speak at
- length) 573; gossip &c. (converse) 588; din in the ears &c. (repeat) 104;
- talk at random, talk nonsense &c. 497; be hoarse with talking.
- Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious|, multiloquous;
- largiloquent|; chattering &c. v.; chatty &c. (sociable) 892; declamatory
- &c. 582; open-mouthed.
- fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded &c.
- (diffuse) 573.
- Adv. trippingly on the tongue; glibly &c. adj.; off the reel.
- Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue
- running on wheels; all talk and no cider; "foul whisperings are abroad"
- [Macbeth]; "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!" [Tempest].
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- #585. Taciturnity. -- N. silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity,
- pauciloquy, costiveness|, curtness; reserve, reticence &c. (concealment)
- 528.
- man of few words.
- V. be silent &c. adj .; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tonue, hold
- one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak. &c. 582; say nothing, keep one's
- counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips,
- put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on
- one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth;
- make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret &c. 528; not have a
- word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on
- the lips; render mute &c. 581.
- stick in one's throat.
- Adj. silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as
- the grave &c. (still) 403; dumb &c. 581; unconversable.
- taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive|, inconversable|,
- curt; reserved; reticent &c. (concealing) 528.
- Int. shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the
- word; keep your mouth shut![vulgar].
- Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui; volto sciollo i pensieri stretti.
-
- #586. Allocution. -- N. allocution, alloquy|, address; speech &c. 582;
- apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the
- ear.
- [Feigned dialogue] *dialogism.
- platform &c. 542; plank; audience &c. (interview) 588.
- V. speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to,
- invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo.
- take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.
- lecture &c. (make a speech) 582.
- Int. soho! halloo! hey! hist!
- 587. Response &c., see Answer 462.
-
- #588. Interlocution. -- N. interlocution; collocution, colloquy,
- converse, conversation, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse;
- oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.
- causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town
- talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble,
- babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the
- town, talk of the village.
- conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete;
- reception, conversazione; congress &c. (council) 696; powwow [U. S.].
- hall of audience, durbar.
- palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words.
- gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c. (loquacity) 584;
- interlocutor &c. (spokesman) 582; conversationist, dialogist.
- "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope); mollia tempora
- fandi.
- V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry
- on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in
- a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip,
- tattle; prate &c. (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.]..
- discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold
- converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted
- with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.
- Adj. conversing &c. v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable;
- discursive, discoursive; chatty &c. (sociable) 892; colloquial.
- Phr. "with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost].
-
- #589. Soliloquy. -- N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology.
- V. Soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think
- aloud, aapostrophize.
- Adj. soliloquizing &c. v.
- Adv. aside.
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-
- 3. Written Language
-
- #590. Writing. -- N. writing &c. v.; chirography, stelography,
- cerography; penmanship, craftmanship; quill driving; typewriting.
- writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents.
- stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline;
- pen and ink.
- letter &c. 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham,
- Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari; script.
- shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy; secret writing,
- writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography, pasigraphy,
- Polygraphy, logography.
- copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting;
- signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.
- calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand,
- legible hand, bold hand.
- cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed
- hand, illegible hand; scribble &c. v.; pattes de mouche; ill-formed
- letters; pothooks and hangers.
- stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap,
- parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table;
- blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.
- transcription &c. (copy) 21; inscription &c. (record) 551;
- superscription &c. (indication) 550; graphology.
- composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi; graphoidea,
- graphomania; phrenoia.
- writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman,
- copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist;
- writer for the press &c. (author) 593.
- V. write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe;
- scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down &c.
- (record) 551; sign &c. (attest) 467; enface.
- compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw
- on paper, dash off; manifold.
- take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in
- ink.
- Adj. writing &c. v.; written &c. v.; in writing, in black and white;
- under one's hand.
- uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical.
- Adv. currente calamo; pen in hand.
- Phr. audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest
- gift - my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium
- et *ons [Horace]; "that mighty instrument of little men" *[Byron]; "the pen
- became a clarion" (Longfellow].
-
- #591. Printing. -- N. printing; block printing, type- printing; plate
- printing &c. [engraving] 558; the press &c. (publication) 531; composition.
- print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.
- typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype; type, black letter,
- font, fount; pi, pie; capitals &c. (letters) 561; brevier, bourgeois, pica
- &c.
- boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room,
- composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification,
- linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix,
- matter, monotype, point system: 41/2, 5, 51/2, 6, 7, 8 point, etc.; press
- room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif,
- shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.
- folio &c. (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's
- proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.
- printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil copyholder.
- V. print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press,
- see through the press; publish &c. 531; bring out; appear in print, rush
- into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.
- Adj. printed &c. v.; in type; typographical &c. n.; solid in galleys.
-
- #592. Correspondence. -- N. correpondence, letter, epistle, note,
- billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty,
- letter card, picture post card; postal [U.S.], card; despatch; dispatch;
- bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post &c. (messenger) 534.
- V. correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a
- correspondence.
- Adj. epistolary.
- Phr. furor scribendi.
-
- #593. Book. -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule;
- tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual,
- pamphjlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book.
- part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial,
- magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
- paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire,
- ream
- chapter, section head, article paragraph, passage, clause.
- folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo.
- encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press &c.
- (publication) 531.
- writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the
- scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writerr for the press,
- gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker,
- diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a
- liner; editor, subeditor; playwright &c. 599; powt &c. 597.
- bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore,
- bookseller's shop.
- knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c. (knowledge) 490.
- Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez
- tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I
- lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write"
- [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton);
- "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; volumes
- that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest].
-
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-
- #594. Description. -- N. description, account, statement, report;
- expose &c. (disclosure) 529 specification, particulars; state of facts,
- summary of facts; brief &c. (abstract) 596; return &c. (record) 551;
- catalogue raisonne &c. (list) 86; guidebook &c. (information) 527.
- delineation &c (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute
- account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic
- account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.
- historiography, chronography; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography,
- autobiograpby; necrology, obituary.
- narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c. (chronicle) 551;
- saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative,
- journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote,
- ana, trait.
- work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery
- tale; fable, parable, apologue; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling
- shocker
- relator &c. v.; raconteur, historian &c. (recorder) 553; biographer,
- fabulist, novelist.
- V. describe; set forth &c. (state) 535; draw a picture, picture;
- portray &c. (represent) 554; characterize, particularize; narrate, relate,
- recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's
- battles over again.
- unfold a tale &c. (disclose) 529 ; tell; give an account of, render an
- account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement.
- detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to
- particulars , descend to details,; itemize.
- Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn;
- historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic, storied;
- described &c. v.
- Phr. furor scribendi.
-
- #595. Dissertation. -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis,
- theme; tractate, tractation; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture,
- sermon, homily, pandect; excursus.
- commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading
- article; editorial; running commentary.
- investigation &c. (inquiry) 461; study &c. (consideration) 451;
- discussion &c. (reasoning) 476; exposition &c. (explanation) 522.
- commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer.
- V. dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a
- subject, touch upon a subject; treat of a subject, take up a subject,
- ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a
- subject, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.
- Adj. discursive, discoursive; disquisitionary; expository.
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-
- #596. Compendium. -- N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis,
- epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance,
- brief, abridgment, summary, apergu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis,
- textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.
- album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book;
- extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing;
- spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation.
- recapitulation, resume, review.
- abbreviation, abbreviature; contraction; shortening &c. 201;
- compression &c. 195.
- V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare
- an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c. n.
- recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.
- abbreviate &c. (shorten) 201; condense &c. (compress) 195; compile &c.
- (collect) 72.
- Adj. compendious, synoptic, analectic; abrege, abridged &c. v.;
- variorum.
- Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words.
- Phr. it lies in a nutshell.
-
- #597. Poetry. -- N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful
- Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring.
- versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry.
- poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoca, ode, epode, idyl, lyric,
- eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay,
- rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, *monody, elegy; amoebeaum,
- ghazal, palinode.
- dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra
- poetae
- song, ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song;
- lullaby; music &c. 415; nursery rhymes.
- [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics;
- macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes.
- canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain;
- strophe, antistrophe.
- verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers,
- strain, rhythm; accentuation &c. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee,
- anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast,
- blank verse, ictus.
- elegiacs &c. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
- poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour,
- trouvere; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger; improvisatore; versifier,
- sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist, rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster;
- genus genus irrittaabile vatum.
- V. poetize, sing, versity, make verses, rhyme, scan.
- Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c.
- n.; metrical; a catalectin; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic;
- amoebeeic, Melibean, skaldic; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
- Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith); Dichtung und
- Wahrheit; furor poeticus; "his virtues formed the magic of his song"
- [Hayley]; "I do but sing because I must" [Tennyson]; "I learnt life from
- the poets" [de Stael]; licentia vatum; mutum est pictura poema; "O for a
- muse of fire!" [Henry V]; "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge'
- [Sidney]; "the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter
- und Deker; "wisdom married to immortal verse" [Wordsworth].
-
- #598. Prose. -- N. prose, prose writer. prosaicism, prosaism,
- prosaist, proser.
- V. prose.
- write prose, write in prose.
- Adj. prosal,prosy, prosaic; unpoetical.
- rhymeless, unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.
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-
- #599. The Drama. -- N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play;
- film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography;
- theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene
- and Thalia, Thespis.
- play, drama, stageplay, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera,
- vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode,
- farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime,
- burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame;
- melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy,
- farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs;
- mystery, miracle play.
- [movies] western, horse opera; flick [coll.]; spy film, love story,
- adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin
- flick, X-rated film.
- act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue;
- libretto.
- performance, representation, mise en scene, stagery, jeu de theatre;
- acting; gesture &c. 550; impersonation &c. 554; stage business, gag,
- buffoonery.
- theater; playhouse, operahouse; house; music hall; amphitheater,
- circus, hippodrome; puppet show, fantoccini; marionettes, Punch and Judy.
- auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery,
- parquet; greenroom, coulisses.
- flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation
- scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium.
- stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies;
- floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.
- theatrical costume, theatrical properties.
- movie studio, back lot, on location.
- part, role, character, dramatis personae; repertoire.
- actor, player; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer;
- mime, mimer; artists; comedian tragedian; tragedienne, Thespian, Roscius;
- star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol;
- supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter *; masker. pantomimist,
- clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine;
- punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo
- appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumernry.
- mummer, guiser, guisard, gysart |, masque.
- mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat;
- contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee
- danseuse.
- company; first tragedian, prima donna, prottagonist; jeune premier;
- debutant, debutante; light comedian, genteel comedian, low commedian, light
- comedy, genteel comedy, low commedy; walking gentleman, amoroso, heaavy
- father, ingenue, jeune veuve
- property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager;
- director, stage manager, acting manager; producer, entrepreneur,
- impresario.
- dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist,
- mimographer.
- V. act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate &c. 554; mimic &c.
- (imitate) 19; enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a
- part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage";
- tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.
- Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic,
- tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.
- Adv. on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before
- an audience; behind the scenes.
- Phr. fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Petronius Arbiter]; "suit
- the action to the word, the word to the action" [Hamlet]; "the play's the
- thing" [Hamlet]; "to wake the soul by tender strokes of art" [Pope].
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-
-
- CLASS V
- WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS1
-
- Division (1) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION
-
- Section I. VOLITION IN GENERAL
-
- 1. Acts of Volition
-
-
- #600. Will. -- N.will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum
- arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom &c. 748; discretion;
- option &c. (choice) 609; voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness;
- originality.
- pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind &c. (inclination) 602;
- intention &c. 620; predetermination &c. 611; selfcontrol &c. determination
- &c. (resolution) 604; force of will.
- V. will, list; see fit, think fit; determine &c. (resolve) 604;
- enjoin; settle &c. (choose) 609; volunteer.
- have a will of one's own; do what one chooses &c. (freedom) 748; have
- it all.one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way.
- use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take
- one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own
- accord, do upon one;s own authority; originate &c. (cause) 153.
- Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free &c. 748; optional;
- discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive.
- minded &c. (willing) 602; prepense &c. (predetermined) 611; intended
- &c. 620; autocratic; unbidden &c. (bid &c. 741); spontaieous; original &c.
- (casual) 153; unconstrained.
- Adv. voluntarily &c. adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a
- discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as
- it seems good to; a beneplacito.
- of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu,
- ex meromotu; out of one's won head; by choice &c. 609; purposely &c.
- (intentionally) 620; deliberately &c. 611.
- Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas; sic volo sic jubeo; a vostro
- beneplacito; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere; Deus vull; was man
- nicht kann meiden muss man wilig leiden.
-
- #601. Necessity. -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse;
- inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency;
- natural impulse, predetermination.
- necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c. 744; subjection
- &c. 749; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious
- necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate;
- what must be.
- destiny, destination; fatality, fate, dismet, doom, foredoom,
- election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune;
- fatalism; inevitableness &c. adj.; spell &c. 993.
- star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae,
- Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune,
- Ides of March, Hobson's choice.
- last shift, last resort; dernier ressort; pis aller &c. (stubstitute)
- 147; necessaries &c. (requirement) 630.
- necessarian, necessitarian; fatalist; automaton.
- V. lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined &c. in for,
- under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate
- &c. n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to
- help.
- destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell
- &c. 992; necessitate; compel &c. 744.
- Adj. necessary, needful &c (requisit) 630.
- fated; destined &c. v.; elect; spellbound
- compulsory &c. (compel) 744; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable,
- irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless, resistless.
- involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious,
- unwitting, unthinking; unintentional &c. (undesigned) 621; impuslive &c.
- 612.
- Adv. necessarily &c. adv.; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate
- rei; needs must; perforce &c. 744; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy
- nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute.
- faute de mieux; by stress of; if need be.
- Phr. it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping
- it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its
- way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's
- days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter gvisum;
- actum me invito factus, non est meus actus; aujord'hui roi demain rien;
- quisque suos patimur manes [Vergil].
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-
- #602. Willingness. -- N. willingness, voluntariness &c. adj.; willing
- mind, heart.
- disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood,
- vein; bent &c. (turn of mind) 820; penchant &c. (desire) 865; aptitude &c.
- 698.
- docility, docibleness; persuasibleness, persuasibility; pliability &c.
- (softness) 324.
- geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness,
- forwardness; eagerness &c. (desire) 865.
- asset &c. 488; compliance &c. 762; pleasure &c. (will) 600; gratuitous
- service.
- labor of love; volunteer, volunteering.
- V. be willing &c. adj.; incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief;
- lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a
- mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire &c. 865.
- see fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce &c (assent) 488; comply
- with &c. 762.
- swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple
- of, make no scruple of; make no bones of; jumb at, catch at; meet halfway;
- volunteer.
- Adj. willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable; favorably-
- minded, favorably inclined, favorably disposed; nothing loth; in the vein,
- in the mood, in the humor, in the mind.
- ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon &c. (desirous) 865;
- predisposed, propense.
- docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible, easily persuaded, facile,
- easy-going; tractable &c. (pliant) 324; genial, gracious, cordial,
- cheering, hearty; content &c. (assenting) 488.
- voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous; unasked &c. (ask &c. 765);
- unforced &c. (free) 748.
- Adv. willingly &c. adj.; fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul; with
- pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms; with good will, with right
- will; de bonne volonte, ex animo; con amore, heart in hand, nothing loth,
- without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a good grace.
- a la bonne heure; by all means, by all manner of means; to one's
- heart's content; yes &c. (assent) 488.
-
- #603. Unwillingness. -- N. unwillingness &c. adj.; indisposition,
- indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence,
- renitency; reluctance; indifference &c. 866; backwardness &c. adj.;
- slowness &c. 275; want of alacrity,want of readiness; indocility &c.
- (obstinacy) 606.
- scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of
- conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation
- &c. (irresolution) 605; fastidiousness &c. 868.
- averseness &c. (dislike) 867; dissent &c. 489; refusal &c. 764.
- V. be unwilling &c. adj.; nill; dislike &c. 867; grudge, begrudge; not
- be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to.
- demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil,
- shrink, swerve; hesitate &c. 605; avoid &c. 623.
- oppose &c. 708; dissent &c. 489; refuse &c. 764.
- Adj. unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined,
- indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse &c. (opposed) 708;
- laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent &c. 866; scrupulous;
- squeamish &c. (fastidious) 868; repugnant &c. (dislike) 867; restiff|,
- restive; demurring &c. v.; unconsenting &c. (refusing) 764; involuntary &c.
- 601.
- Adv. unwillingly &c. adj.; grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad,
- with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the
- grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against
- one's grain; invita Minerva; a contre caeur; malgre soi; in spite of one's
- teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens &c. (necessity) 601; perforce &c.
- 744; under protest; no &c. 536; not for the world, far be it from me.
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- #604. Resolution. -- N. determination, will; iron will, unconquerable
- will; will of one's own, decision, resolution; backbone; clear grit, true
- grit, grit [U. S. & Can.]; sand, strength of mind, strength of will;
- resolve &c. (intent) 620; firmness &c. (stability) 150; energy, manliness,
- vigor; game, pluck; resoluteness &c. (courage) 861; zeal &c. 682; aplomb;
- desperation; devotion, devitedness.
- mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self
- reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial;
- moral courage, moral strength; perseverance &c. 604a; tenacity; obstinacy
- &c. 606; bulldog; British lion.
- V. have determination &c. n.; know one's own mind; be resolved &c.
- adj.; make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide &c. (judgement)
- 480;
- form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution, come
- to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a
- crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step &c. (choice)
- 609; take upon oneself &c. (undertake) 676.
- devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick
- down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the
- wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm
- &c. (stability) 150; steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the
- voice of the charmer.
- buckle to; buckle oneself put one's shoulder to the wheel, lay one's
- shoulder to the wheel, set one's shoulder to the wheel; put one's heart
- into; run the gauntlet, make a dash at, take the bull by the horns; rush in
- medias res, plunge in medias res; go in for; insist upon, make a point of;
- set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon.
- stick at nothing, stop at nothing; make short work of &c. (activity)
- 682; not stick at trifles; go all lengths, go the limit *, go the whole
- hog; persist &c. (persevere) 604a,; go through fire and water, ride the
- tiger, ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.
- Adj. resolved &c. v.; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded;
- resolute &c. (brave) 861; self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory,
- tranchant; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking; firm, iron, gritty
- [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to
- be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi; inflexible &c. (hard) 323;
- obstinate &c. 606; steady &c. (persevering) 604a.
- earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon.
- steel against, proof against; in utrumque paratus.
- Adv. resolutely &c. adj.; in earnest, in good earnest; seriously,
- joking apart, earnestly, heart and soul; on one's mettle; manfully, like a
- man, with a high hand; with a strong hand &c. (exertion) 686.
- at any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at
- any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a
- blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or
- nothing; rain or shine.
- Phr. spes sibi quisque; celui qui veut celui-la peut; chi non
- s'arrischia non guadagna; frangas non flectes; manu forti; tentanda via
- est.
- #604a. Perseverance. -- N. perseverance; continuance &c. (inaction)
- 143; permanence &c. (absence of change) 141; firmness &c. (stability) 150.
- constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose;
- persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity &c. (industry) 682; pertinacy|,
- pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration &c. 104
- bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit; indefatigability,
- indefatigableness; bulldog courage.
- V. persevere, persist; hold on, hold out; die in the last ditch, be in
- at the death; stick to, cling to, adhere to; stick to one's text, keep on;
- keep to one's course, keep to one's ground, maintain one's course, maintain
- one's ground; go all lengths, go through fire and water; bear up, keep up,
- hold up; plod; stick to work &c. (work) 686; continue &c. 143; follow up;
- die in harness, die at one's post.
- Adj. persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating,
- unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging,
- undrooping; steady as time; unintermitting, unremitting; plodding;
- industrious &c. 682; strenuous &c. 686; pertinacious; persisting,
- persistent.
- solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself; unchangeable &c. 150;
- unconquerable &c. (strong) 159; indomitable, game to the last,
- indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring.
- Adv. through evil report and good report, through thick and thin,
- through fire and water; per fas et nefas; without fail, sink or swim, at
- any price, vogue la galere..
- Phr. never say die; vestigia nulla retrorsum; aut vincer aut mori; la garde
- meurt et ne se rend pas; tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre.
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- #605. Irresolution. -- N. irresolution, infirmity of purpose,
- indecision; indetermination, undetermindtion; unsettlement; uncertainty &c.
- 475; demur, suspense; hesitating &c. v., hesitation, hesitancy;
- vacillation; changeableness &c. 149; fluctuation; alternation &c.
- (oscillation) 314; caprice &c. 608.
- fickleness, levity, legerete; pliancy &c. (softness) 324; weakness;
- timidity &c. 860; cowardice &c. 862; half measures.
- waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp;
- doughface [U. S.].
- V. be irresolute &c. adj.; hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave
- "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle &c. (inactivity) 683;
- remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw,
- demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with;
- will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a
- compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be
- afraid &c. 860; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" [Macbeth]; falter,
- waver
- vacillate &c. 149; change &c. 140; retract &c. 607; fluctuate;
- pendulate; alternate &c. (oscillate) 314; keep off and on, play fast and
- loose; blow hot and cold &c. (caprice) 608.
- shuffle, palter, blink; trim.
- Adj. irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted;
- undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous;
- hesitating &c. v.; off one's balance; at a loss &c. (uncertain) 475.
- vacillating &c. v.; unsteady &c. (changeable) 149; unsteadfast,
- fickle, without ballast; capricious &c. 608; volatile, frothy; light,
- lightsome, lightminded; giddy; fast and loose.
- weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy &c. 860; cowardly
- &c. 862; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant &c. (soft) 324; unable to say
- "no", easy-going
- revocable, reversible.
- Adv. irresolutely &c. adj.; irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering
- accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw &c. 314.
- Int. "how happy could I be with either!" [Gay].
-
-
- #606. Obstinacy. -- N. obstinateness &c. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity;
- cussedness [U. S.]; perseverance &c. 604a; immovability; old school;
- inflexibility &c. (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration; dogged resolution;
- resolution &c. 604; ruling passion; blind side.
- self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy|, pervicacity; indocility.
- bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry|, opintiveness; fixed idea
- &c. (prejudgement) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania;
- opinionatedness opinionativeness.
- mule; optinionist|, opinionatist, opiniator|, opinator|; stickler,
- dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic.
- V. be obstinate &c. adj.; stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of
- facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a elief; have one's own way
- &c. (will) 600; persist &c. (persevere) 604a; have the last word, insist on
- having the last word.
- die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out.
- Adj. obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened;
- inflexible &c. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, not to be moved; inert &c.
- 172; unchangeable &c. 150; inexorable &c. (determined) 604; mulish,
- obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.
- dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.
- willful, self-willed, perverse; resty, restive, restiff|;
- pervicacious, wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete;
- contumacious; crossgrained.
- arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced &c. 481; creed-
- bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted;
- hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable,
- inpersuasible; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable; incorrigible, deaf
- to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety &c. 608.
- Adv. obstinately &c. adj.
- Phr. non possumus; no surrender; ils n'ont rien appris ne rien oublic.
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- #607. Tergiversation. -- N. change of mind, change of intention,
- change of purpose; afterthought.
- tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody; renunciation;
- abjuration,abjurement; defection &c. (relinquishment) 624; going over &c.
- v.; apostasy; retraction, retractation; withdrawal; disavowal &c.
- (negation) 536; revocation, revokement; reversal; repentance &c. 950-
- redintegratio'amoris.
- coquetry; vacillation &c. 605; backsliding; volte-face.
- turn coat, turn tippet|; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert;
- proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U. S.], scab*, mugwump
- [U. S.], recidivist.
- time server, time pleaser; timist|, Vicar of Bray, trimmer,
- ambidexter; weathercock &c. (changeable) 149; Janus.
- V. change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose,
- change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from &c. (relinquish) 624;
- waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go
- over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from
- one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout;
- box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.
- apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke;
- rescind &c. (abrogate) 756; recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round
- to an opinion; crawfish *[U. S.], crawl* [U. S.].
- draw in one's borns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek;
- swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come
- back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf &c. (repent) 950.
- trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on
- the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager
- entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind
- blows.
- Adj. changeful &c. 149; irresolute &c. 605; ductile, slippery as an
- eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving;. coquetting &c. v.
- revocatory, reactionary.
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron].
-
- #608. Caprice. -- N. caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsey, whimwham;
- crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit,
- flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness &c. adj.;
- kink.
- V. be capricious &c. adj.; have a maggot in the brain; take it into
- one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play
- fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque.
- Adj. capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims
- &c. n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety,
- kinky [U. S.], particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward;
- contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable &c. 83; penny wise and pound
- foolish; fickle &c. (irresolute) 605; frivolous, sleeveless, giddy,
- volatile.
- Adv. by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.
- Phr. nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi; the deuce is in him.
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- #609. Choice. -- N. choice, option;. discrition &c. (volition) 600;
- preoption; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix; adoption, cooptation;
- novation; decision &c. (judgment) 480.
- election, poll, ballot, vote, voice, suffrage, plumper, cululative
- vote; plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting &c. v.;
- elective franchise; straight ticket [U.S.].
- selection, exceprtion, gleaning, eclesctism; excerpta, gleanings,
- cuttings, scissors and paste; pick &c. (best) 650.
- preference, prelation; predilection &c. (desire) 865.
- V. offers one's choice, set before; hold out the alternative, present
- the alternative, offer the alternative; put to the vote.
- use option, use discretion, excercise option, excercise discretion,
- one's option; adopt, take up, embrace, espouse; choose, elect; take one's
- choice, make one's choice; make choice of, fix upon.
- vote, poll, hold up one's hand; divide.
- settle; decide &c. (adjudge) 480; list &c. (will) 600; make up one's
- mind &c. (resolve) 604.
- select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow;
- sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the whean, winnow
- the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge
- one;s fancy.
- set apart, mark out for; mark &c. 550.
- prefer; have rather, have as lief; fancy &c. (desire) 865; be
- persuaded &c. 615.
- take a decided step, take a decisive step; commit oneself to a course;
- pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; cast in one's lot with; take for
- better or for worse.
- Adj. optional; discretional &c. (voluntary) 600.
- eclectic; choosing &c. v.; preferential; chosen &c. v.; choice &c.
- (good) 648.
- Adv. optionally &c. adj.; at pleasure &c. (will) 600; either the one
- or the other; or at the option of; whether or not; once and for all; for
- one's money.
- by choice, by preference; in preference; rather, before.
-
- #609a. Absence of Choice. -- N. no choice, Hobson's choice; first come
- first served, random selection; necessity &c. 601; not a pin to choose &c.
- (equality) 27; any, the first that comes; that or nothing.
- neutrality, indifference; indecision &c. (irresolution) 605;
- arbitrariness.
- coercion (compulsion) 744.
- V. be neutral &c. adj.; have no choice, have no election; waive, not
- vote; abstain from voting, refrain from voting; leave undecided; "make a
- virtue of necessity" [Two Gentlemen].
- Adj. neutral, neuter; indifferent, uninterested; undecided &c.
- (irresolute) 605.
- Adv. either &c. (choice) 609.
- Phr. who cares? what difference does it make? "There's not a dime's
- worth of difference between them." [George Wallace].
-
- #610. Rejection. -- N. rejection, repudiation, exclusion; refusal &c.
- 764; declination
- V. reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline &c. (refuse) 764;
- exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast.
- repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the
- dogs, fling overboard, fing away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs, cast
- overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw
- overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard,
- toss away; send ot the right about; disclaim &c. (deny) 536; discard &c.
- (eject) 297, (have done with) 678.
- Adj. rejected &c. v.; reject, rejectaneous|, rejectious|; not chosen
- &c. 609, to be thought of, out of the question
- Adv. neither, neither the one nor the other; no &c 536.
- Phr. non haec in faedera.
-
- #611. Predetermination. -- N. predestination, preordination,
- premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait
- accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency|; intention &c. 620; project &c.
- 626; fate, foredoom, necessity.
- V. predestine, preordain, predetermine, premeditate, resolve, concert;
- resolve beforehand.
- Adj. prepense, premeditated &c. v., predesigned; advised, studied,
- designed, calculated; aforethought; intended &c. 620; foregone.
- well-laid, well-devised, well-weighed; maturely considered; cunning.
- Adv. advisedly &c. adj.; with premeditation, deliberately, all things
- considered, with eyes open, in cold blood; intentionally &c. 620.
-
- #612. Impulse. -- N. impulse, sudden thought; impromptu,
- improvisation; inspiration, flash, spurt.
- improvisatore; creature of impulse.
- V. flash on the mind.
- say what comes uppermost; improvise, extemporize.
- Adj. extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate; snap; improvised,
- improvisate, improvisatory; unpremeditated, unmeditated; improvise;
- unprompted, unguided; natural, unguarded; spontaneous &c. (voluntary) 600;
- instinctive &c. 601.
- Adv. extempore, extemporaneously; offhand, impromptu, a limproviste;
- improviso; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion.
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- #613. Habit. -- N. habit, habitude; assuetude|, assuefaction|, wont;
- run, way.
- common state of things, general state of things, natural state of
- things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run
- of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.
- prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice;
- prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion,
- vogue; etiquette &c. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity &c.
- 82; consuetude,.dustoor.
- one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae; laudator temporis
- acti.
- rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism; pipe
- clay; rut, groove.
- cacoethes; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic
- habit &c.; addiction, trick.
- training &c. (education) 537; seasoning, second nature,
- acclimatization; knack &c.
- V. be wont &c. adj.
- fall into a rut, fall into a custom &c. (conform to) 82; tread the
- beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the
- beaten; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go
- round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.
- habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize;
- naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train &c. (educate) 537.
- get into the way, get into the knack of; learn &c. 539; cling to,
- adhere to; repeat &c. 104; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a
- habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself
- to, take to, get into.
- be habitual &c. adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take
- root; gain upon one, grow upon one.
- Adj. habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed &c. v.; of daily
- occurence, everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general,
- ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, jog, trot; well-trodden,
- well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional,
- regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent;
- current, received, acknowledged, reconized, accredited; of course,
- admitted, understood.
- conformable. &c. 82; according to use, according to custom, according
- to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable &c. (genteel)
- 852.
- wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated &c. v.;
- in the habit of; habitue; at home in &c. (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued
- with; devoted to, wedded to.
- hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent,
- inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained &c. (intrinsic) 5.
- Adv. habitually &c. adj.; always &c. (uniformly) 16.
- as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the
- sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito; ex more.
- as a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically &c. adj.;
- most often, most frequently.
- Phr. cela s'entend; abeunt studia in mores; adeo in teneris
- consuescere multum est; consuetudo quasi altera natura [Cicero]; hoc erat
- in more majorum; "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Two Gentlemen];
- magna est vis consuetudinis; morent fecerat usus [Ovid].
- #614. Desuetude. -- N. desuetude, disusage; obsoleseence, disuse &c.
- 678; want of habit, want of practice; inusitation; newness to; new brooms.
- infraction of usage &c. (unconformity) 83; nonprevalence; "a custom
- more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].
- V. be -unaccustomed &c. adj.; leave off a habit, cast off a habit,
- break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through
- a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off
- a custom, wean oneslef of a custum, violate a custom, break through a
- custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a
- usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage,
- infringe a usage; disuse &c. 678; wear off.
- Adj. unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned, uninured,
- unhabituated, untrained; new; green &c. (unskilled) 699; unhackneyed.
- unusual &c. (unconformable) 83; nonobservant; disused &c. 678.
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- #615. Motive. -- N. motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action.
- reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring,
- primum mobile, keystone; the why and the wherefore; pro and con, reason
- why; secret motive, arriere pensee; intention &c. 620.
- inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism,
- magnetic force; allectation|, allective|; temptation, enticement, agacerie,
- allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell &c. 993;
- fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words,
- voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple.
- persuasibility, persuasibleness; attractability; impressibility,
- susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization.
- influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement,
- incitation; press, instigation; provocation &c. (excitation of feeling)
- 824; inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy;
- exhortation; advice &c. 695; solicitation &c. (request) 765; lobbyism;
- pull*.
- incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel,
- provocative, whet, dram.
- bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery
- and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.
- prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor; instigator, firebrand,
- incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist.
- V. induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse
- &c. n.; to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon.
- stimulate &c. (excite) 824; spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse;
- animate, incite, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate;.act upon, work upon,
- operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder, clap on the
- back, clap on the shoulder.
- influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn
- the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence
- over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence
- over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head,
- magnetize; lobby.
- persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to
- one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come
- over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.
- tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate,
- bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle;
- tantalize; cajole &c. (deceive) 545.
- tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook,
- gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop
- to, bait the hook.
- enforce, force; impel &c. (push) 276; propel &c. 284; whip, lash,
- goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound , hurry on; drag &c. 285; exhort;
- advise &c. 695; call upon &c. press &c. (request) 765; advocate.
- set an example, set the fashion; keep in countenance.
- be persuaded &c.; yield to temptation, come round; concede &c.
- (consent) 762; obey a call; follow advice, follow the bent,.follow the
- dictates of; act on principle.
- Adj. impulsive, motive; suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory,
- hortative, hortatory; protreptical|; inviting, tempting, &c. v.; suasive,
- suasory; seductive, attractive; fascinating &c. (pleasing) 829; provocative
- &c. (exciting) 824.
- induced &c. v.; disposed; persuadable &c. (docile) 602; spellbound;
- instinct with, smitten with, infatuated; inspired &c. v.; by.
- Adv. because, therefore &c. (cause) 155; from this motive, from that
- motive; for this reason, for that reason; for; by reason of, for the sake
- of, count of; out of, from, as, forasmuch as.
- for all the world; on principle.
- Phr. fax mentis incendium gloriae; "temptation hath a music for all
- ears" [Willis] "to beguile many and be beguiled by one" [Othello].
-
- #615a. Absence of Motive. -- N. absence of motive, aimlessness;
- caprice &c. 608; chance &c. (absence of design) 621.
- V. have no motive; scruple &c. (be unwilling) 603.
- Adj. without rhyme or reason; aimless, capricious, whimsical &c.
- (chance) 621.
- Adv. out of mere caprice.
-
- #616. Dissuasion. -- N. dissuasion, dehortation, expostulation,
- remonstrance; deprecation &c. 766.
- discouragement, damper, wet blanket.
- cohibition &c. (restraint) 751; curb &c. (means of restraint) 752;
- check &c. (hindrance) 706.
- reluctance &c. (unwillingness) 603; contraindication.
- V. dissuade, dehort, cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate, warn,
- contraindicate.
- disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage,
- dishearten, disenchant; deter; hold back, keep back &c. (restrain) 751;
- render averse &c. 603; repel; turn aside &c. (deviation) 279; wean from;
- act as a drag &c. (hinder) 706; throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill,
- blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate &c. 766.
- Adj. dissuading &c. v.; dissuasive; dehortatory, expostulatory;
- monitive|, monitory.
- dissuaded &c. v.; admonitory; uninduced &c. (induce &c. 615);
- unpersuadable &c. (obstinate) 606; averse &c. (unwilling) 603; repugnant
- &c. (dislike) 867.
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-
- #617. [Ostensible motive, ground, or reason assigned.] Pretext. -- N.
- pretext, pretense, pretension, plea|; allegation, advocation; ostensible
- motive, subterfuge, obtensible ground, obtensible reason, phony reason;
- excuse &c. (vindication) 937; color; gloss, guise, cover.
- loop hole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of
- escape.
- handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi; stalking-horse, cheval de
- bataille, cue.
- pretense &c. (untruth) 546; put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind;
- moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to
- a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special
- pleading &c. (sophistry) 477; soft sawder &c. (flattery) 933.
- V. pretend, plead, allege; shelter oneself under the plea of; excuse
- &c. (vindicate) 937; lend a color to; furnish a handle &c. n.; make a
- pretext of, make a handle of; use as a plea &c. n.; take one's stand upon,
- make capital out of , pretend &c. (lie) 544.
- Adj. ostensibly &c. (manifest) 525; alleged, apologetic; pretended &c.
- 545.
- Adv. ostensibly; under color; under the plea, under the pretense of,
- under the guise of.
-
-
- 3. Objects of Volition
-
-
- #618. Good. -- N. good, benefit, advantage; improvement &c. 658;
- greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main
- chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished";
- gain, boot; profit, harvest.
- boon &c. (gift) 784; good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good
- luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif,
- treasure-trove.
- good fortune &c. (prosperity) 734; happiness &c. 827.
- [Source of good] goodness &c. 648; utility &c. 644; remedy &c. 662;
- pleasure giving &c. 829.
- Adj. commendable &c. 931; useful &c. 644; good &c., beneficial &c.
- 648.
- Adv. well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the
- best; to one's advantage &c. n.; in one's favor, in one's interest &c. n.
- Phr. so far so good; magnum bonum.
-
- #619. Evil. -- N. evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance;
- machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.
- blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal
- blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss &c. (deterioration) 659.
- disadvantage, prejudice, drawback.
- disaster, accident, casualty; mishap &c. (misfortune) 735; bad job,
- devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin &c. (destruction)
- 162; adversity &c. 735.
- mental suffering &c. 828. *[Evil spirit] demon &v. 980. [Cause of
- evil] bane &c. 663. [Production of evil] badness &c. 649; painfulness &c.
- 830; evil doer &c. 913.
- outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice,
- spoliation &c. 791; grievance, crying evil.
- V. be in trouble &c. (adversity) 735.
- Adj. disastrous, bad &c. 649; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
- Adv. amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
- Phr. "moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello]
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- Section II. Prospective Volition1
- 1. Conceptional Volition
-
- #620. Intention. -- N. intent, intention, intentionality; purpose; quo
- animo; project &c. 626; undertaking &c. 676; predetermination &c. 611;
- design, ambition.
- contemplation, mind, animus, view, purview, proposal; study; look out.
- final cause; raison detre; cui bono; object, aim, end; "the be all and
- the end all"; drift &c. (meaning) 516; tendency &c. 176; destination, mark,
- point, butt, goal, target, bull's-eye, quintain; prey, quarry, game.
- decision, determination, resolve; fixed set purpose, settled purpose;
- ultimatum; resolution &c. 604; wish &c. 865; arriere pensee; motive &c.
- 615.
- [Study of final causes] teleology.
- V. intend, purpose, design, mean; have to; propose to oneself; harbor
- a design; have in view, have in contemplation, have in one's eye, have in-
- petto; have an eye to.
- bid for, labor for; be after, aspire after, endeavor after; be at, aim
- at, drive at, point at, level at, aspire at; take aim; set before oneself;
- study to.
- take upon oneself &c. (undertake) 676; take into one's head; meditate,
- contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of; premeditate &c. 611; compass,
- calculate; destine, destinate; propose.
- project &c. (plan) 626; have a mind to &c. (be willing) 602; desire
- &c. 865; pursue &c. 622.
- Adj. intended &c. v.; intentional, advised, express, determinate;
- prepense &c. 611; bound for; intending &c. v.; minded; bent upon &c.
- (earnest) 604; at stake; on the anvil, on the tapis; in view, in prospect,
- in the breast of; in petto; teleological
- Adv. intentionally &c. adj.; advisedly, wittingly, knowingly,
- designedly, purposely, on purpose, by design, studiously, pointedly; with
- intent &c. n.; deliberately &c. (with premeditation) 611; with one's eyes
- open, in cold blood.
- for; with a view, with an eye to; in order to, in order that; to the
- end that, with the intent that; for the purpose of, with the view of, in
- contemplation of, on account of.
- in pursuance of, pursuant to; quo animo; to all intents and purposes.
- Phr. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" [Johnson];
- sublimi feriam sidera vertice [Horace].
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- #621. [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance. 2 -- N.
- chance &c. 156; lot, fate &c. (necessity) 601; luck; good luck &c. (good)
- 618; mascot.
- speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot;
- blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke &c. (uncertainty) 475;
- fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer*; limit
- drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition|; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge
- et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro,
- roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or talls
- cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.
- gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; joint *;
- totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box; dicer; gambler,
- gamester; man of the turf; adventurer.
- V. chance &c. (hap) 156; stand a chance &c. (be possible) 470.
- toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave
- to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chpter of accidents; tempt
- fortune; chance it, take one's chance; run the risk, run the chance, incur
- the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand
- the hazard of the die.
- speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery,
- buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards.
- risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet,
- wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
- Adj. fortuitous &c. 156; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not
- meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated &c. 612; unforeseen, never
- thought of.
- indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected, random; aimless, driftless,
- designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
- possible &c. 470.
- Adv. casually &c. 156; unintentionally &c. adj.; unwittingly.
- en passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at
- a venture, at haphazard.
- Phr. acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of
- circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances"
- [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoic; "the
- happy combination of fortuitous circumstances" [Scott]; "the fortuitous or
- casual concourse of atoms" [Bentley].
-
- #622. [Purpose in action.] Pursuit -- N. pursuit; pursuing &c. v.;
- prosecution; pursuance; enterprise &c. (undertaking) 676; business &c. 625;
- adventure &c. (essay) 675; quest &c. (search) 461; scramble, hue and cry,
- game; hobby; still-hunt.
- chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation,
- venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking;
- shikar.
- pursuer; hunter, huntsman; shikari, sportsman, Nimrod; hound &c. 366.
- V. pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt
- after, prowl after; shadow; carry on &c. (do) 680; engage in &c.
- (undertake) 676; set about &c. (begin) 66; endeavor &c. 675; court &c.
- (request) 765 seek &c. (search) 461; aim at &c. (intention) 620; follow the
- trail &c. (trace) 461; fish for &c. (experiment) 463; press on &c. (haste)
- 684; run a race &c. (velocity) 274.
- chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound; tread on the heels,
- follow on the heels of, &c. (sequence) 281.
- rush upon; rush headlong &c. (violence) 173 ride full tilt at, run
- full tilt at; make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down; start game.
- tread a path; take a course, hold- a course; shape one's steps, direct
- one's steps, bend one's steps, course; play a game; fight one's way, elbow
- one's way; follow up; take to, take up; go in for; ride one's hobby.
- Adj. pursuing &c. v.; in quest of &c. (inquiry) 461 in puursuit, in
- full cry, in hot pursuit; on the scent.
- Adv. in pursuance of &c. (intention) 620; after.
- Int. tallyho! yoicks! soho!
-
- #623. .[Absence of pursuit.] Avoidance. -- N. abstention, abstinence;
- for bearance; refraining &c. v.; inaction &c. 681; neutrality.
- avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion &c. 893.
- avolation|, flight; escape &c. 671; retreat &c. 287; recoil &c. 277;
- departure &c. 293; rejection &c. 610.
- shirker &c. v.; truant; fugitive, refugee; runaway, runagate; maroon.
- V. abstain, refrain, spare, not attempt; not do &c. 681; maintain the
- even tenor of one's way.
- eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with; keep aloof keep
- off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off; take no part in, have no
- hand in.
- avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's
- distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of
- the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against &c. (oppose)
- 708; deny oneself.
- shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil &c. 277; retire
- &c. (recede) 287; flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way
- for, give place to.
- beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels;
- runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee;
- fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert,
- elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break
- away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from,
- scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from;
- slip calbe, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give
- one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt,
- abscond, levant, skedadle, absquatulate [U.S.], cut one's stick, walk one's
- chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape &cl. 671;
- go away &c. (depart) 293; abandon &c. 624; reject &c. 610.
- lead one a dance, lead one a pretty dance; throw off the scent, play
- at hide and seek.
- Adj. unsought, unattempted; avoiding &c. v.; neutral, shy of &c
- (unwilling) 603; elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.
- Adj. lest, in order to avoid.
- Int. forbear! keep off, hands off! sauve qui peut! devil take the
- hindmost!
- Phr. "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" [Paradise Lost].
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- #624. Relinquishment. -- N. relinquishment, abandonment; desertion,
- defection, secession, withdrawal; cave of Adullam; nolle prosequi.
- discontinuance &c. (cessation) 142; renunciation &c. (recantation)
- 607; abrogation &c. 756; resignation &c. (retirement) 757; desuetude &c.
- 614; cession &c. (of property) 782.
- V. relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch;
- go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave,
- quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate &c. (resign) 757.
- renounce &c (abjure) 607; forego, have done with, drop; disuse &c.
- 678; discard &c. 782; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.
- break off, leave off; desist; stop &c. (cease) 142; hold one's hand,
- stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.
- throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the
- argument; pass to the order of the day, move to the previous question.
- Adj. unpursued; relinquished &c. v.; relinqishing &c. v.
- Int. avast! &c. (stop) 142.
- Phr. aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben; entbehr gern was du nicht
- hast.
-
- #625. Business. -- N. business, occupation, employment; pursuit &c.
- 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.
- matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work,
- job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty &c. 926.
-
- part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department capacity,
- sphere, orb, field, line; walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.
- office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living; situation, berth,
- employ; service &c. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c. 676.
- vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art;
- industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade &c. (commerce) 794.
- exercise; work &c. (action) 680; avocation; press of business &c.
- (activity) 682.
- V. pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in;
- employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern
- oneself with; make it one's business &c. n.; undertake &c. 676; enter a
- profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with &c. (do)
- 680.
- drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry
- on business, do business, transact business &c. n.; keep a shop; ply one's
- task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of
- one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.
- officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve
- the office, discharge the office ,perform the office, perform the duties,
- perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place,
- fill a situation; hold a portfolio.
- be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with,
- be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have
- on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full &c. (activity)
- 682.
- be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through
- one's hands.
- Adj. businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy
- &c. (actively employed) 682; on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on
- foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
- Adv. in the course of business, all in one's day's work;
- professionally, &c. adj.
- Phr. "a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto
- quaeramus seria ludo [Horace]; par negotiis neque supra [Tacitus].
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- #626. Plan. -- N. plan, scheme, design, project; proposal,
- proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution &c. (provision)
- 673; deep-laid plan &c. (premeditated) 611;
- system &c. (order),58; organization &c. (arrangement) 60; germ &c.
- (cause) 153.
- sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough
- cast, rough draft, draught, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.
- forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays; card; bill,
- protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare &c. (food) 298;
- base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U. S.], ticket [U. S.].
- role; policy &c. (line of conduct) 692.
- contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device;
- pipelaying [U. S.]; stratagem &c. (cunning) 702; trick &c. (deception) 545;
- alternative, loophole; shift &c. (substitute) 147; last shift &c.
- (necessity) 601.
- measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card,
- court card; cheval de bataille, great gun; coup, coup d'etat; clever
- stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright thought,
- bright idea.
- intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination; underplot,
- counterplot.
- schemer, schemist, schematist|; strategist, machinator; projector,
- artist, promoter, designer &c. v.; conspirator; intrigant &c. (cunning)
- 702.
- V. plan,,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch;
- devise, invent &c. (imagine) 515; set one's wits to work &c. 515; spring a
- project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map
- out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine
- &c. 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare &c. 673; hatch, hatch a
- plot concoct; take steps, take measures.
- cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange &c. 60; digest, mature.
- plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue
- &c. (cunning) 702.
- Adj. planned &c. v.; strategic, strategical; planning &c. v.; in
- course of preparation &c. 673; under consideration; on the tapis, on the
- carpet, on the floor.
-
- #627. Method. [Path.] -- N. method, way, manner, wise, gait, form,
- mode, fashion, tone, guise; , modus operandi, MO; procedure &c. (line of
- conduct) 692.
- path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory,
- orbit, track, beat, tack.
- steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron.
- bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway;
- drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe &c. 260.
- door; gateway &c. (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of
- access, approach, adit; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back-
- door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel.
- roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike ,
- freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's
- highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track,
- bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk;
- crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut &c. (mid-course) 628;
- carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad,
- railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal &c. (conduit) 350;
- street &c. (abode) 189; speedway.
- adv. how; in what way, in what manner; by what mode; so, in this way, after
- this fashion.
- one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other &c. (instrumentality)
- 631; by way of; via; in transitu &c. 270; on the high road to.
- Phr. hae tibi erunt artes
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-
- #628. Mid-course. -- N. middle course, midcourse; mean &c. 29 middle
- &c. 68; juste milieu, mezzo termine, golden mean,
- <gr/ariston metron/gr>, aurea mediocritas.
- straight &c. (direct) 278 straight course, straight path; short cut,
- cross cut; great circle sailing.
- neutrality; half measure, half and half measures; compromise.
- V. keep in a middle course, preserve a middle course, preserve an even
- course, go straight &c. (direct) 278.
- go halfway, compromise, make a compromise.
- Adj. straight &c. (direct) 278.
- Phr. medium tenuere beati.
-
- #629. Circuit. -- N. circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour,
- circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding &c. (circuition) 311; zigzag &c.
- (deviation) 279.
- V. perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a
- detour; meander &c. (deviate) 279.
- lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry.
- Adj. circuitous, indirect, roundabout; zigzag &c. (deviating) 279;
- backhanded.
- Adv. by a side wind, by an indirect course; in a roundabout way; from
- pillar to post.
-
-
- #630. Requirement. -- N. requirement, need, wants, necessities;
- necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency,pinch, sine qua non,
- matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.
- needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency.
- requisition &c. (request) 765, (exaction) 741; run upon; demand, call
- for.
- charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept.
- desideratum &c. (desire) 865; want &c. (deficiency) 640.
- V. require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without,
- not be able to dispense with; prerequire.
- render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for, put
- in requisition; make a requisition &c. (ask for) 765, (demand) 741.
- stand in need of; lack &c. 640; desiderate; desire &c. 865; be
- necessary &c. Adj.
- Adj. required &c. v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative,
- essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request.
- urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing.
- in want of; destitute of &c. 640.
- Adv. ex necessitate rei &c. (necessarily) 601; of necessity.
- Phr. there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be
- dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Quintilian]; necessitas non
- habet legem; nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te [Martial].
-
- 2. Subservience to Ends
-
- 1. Actual Subservience
-
- #631. Instrumentality. -- N. instrumentality; aid &c. 707;
- subservience, subserviency; mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium,
- vehicle, hand; agency &c. 170.
- minister, handmaid; midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician;
- gobetween; cat's-paw; stepping-stone.
- key; masterkey, passkey, latchkey; " open sesame "; passport, passe-
- partout, safe-conduct.
- instrument &c. 633; expedient &c. (plan) 626; means &c. 632.
- V. subserve, minister, mediate, intervene; be instrumental &c. adj.;
- pander to; officiate; tend.
- Adj. instrumental; useful &c. 644; ministerial, subservient,
- mediatorial; intermediate, intervening; conducive.
- Adv. through, by, per; whereby, thereby, hereby; by the agency of &c.
- 170; by dint of; by virtue of, in virtue of; through the medium of &c. n.;
- along with; on the shoulders of; by means of &c. 632; by the aid of, with
- the aid of &c. (assistance) 707.
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- per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul; somehow, somehow or other; by
- hook or by crook.
-
- #632. Means. -- N. means, resources, wherewithal, ways and means;
- capital &c. (money) 800; revenue; stock in trade &c. 636; provision &c.
- 637; a shot in the locker; appliances &c. (machinery) 633; means and
- appliances; conveniences; cards to play; expedients &c. (measures) 626; two
- strings to one's bow; sheet anchor &c. (safety) 666; aid &c. 707; medium
- &c. 631..
- V. find means, have means, possess means &c. n.
- Adj. instrumental &c. 631; mechanical &c. 633.
- Adv. by means of, with; by what means, by all means, by any means, by
- some means; wherewith, herewith, therewith; wherewithal.
- how &c. (in what manner) 627; through &c. (by the instrumentality of)
- 631; with the aid of, by the aid of &c. (assistance) 707; by the agency of
- &c. 170
-
- #633. Instrument. -- N. machinery, mechanism, engineering.
- instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe,
- gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine.
- gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant,
- materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde; equipment,
- equipmentage; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia
- &c. (belongings) 780.
- mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow,
- crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle;
- pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion,
- crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan &c. (lift) 307; wheel &c. (rotation)
- 312; inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut,
- heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.
- handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm,
- treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.
- hammer &c. (impulse) 276; edge tool &c. (cut) 253; borer &c. 262;
- vice, teeth, &c. (hold) 781; nail, rope &c. (join) 45; peg &c. (hang) 214;
- support &c. 215; spoon &c. (vehicle) 272; arms &c. 727; oar &c.
- (navigation) 267; cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph.
- Adj. instrumental &c. 631; mechanical, machinal; brachial.
-
- #634. Substitute. -- N. substitute &c. 147; deputy &c. 759; badli.
-
- #635. Materials. -- N. material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple;
- adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle,
- bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery &c. 384; compo,
- composition; concrete; reenforeed concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.
- materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum
- &c. (food) 298; ammunition &c. (arms) 727; contingents; relay,
- reenforcement; baggage &c. (personal property) 780; means &c. 632; calico,
- cambric, cashmere.
- Adj. raw &c. (unprepared) 674; wooden &c. n.; adobe.
-
- #636. Store. -- N. stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring;
- fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.
- stock in trade, supply; heap &c. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve,
- corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.
- crop, harvest, mow, vintage.
- store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay &c. (provision)
- 637.
- storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache,
- repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse,
- entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery,
- safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank &c. (treasury) 802; armory;
- arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie.
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- reservoir, cstern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer.
- budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer &c. (receptacle) 191.
- conservation; storing &c. v.; storage.
- V. store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart;
- store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save
- up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.
- reserve; keep back, hold back; husband, husband one's resources.
- deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect &c. 72; lay in
- store &c.
- Adj.; keep, file [papers]; lay in &c. (provide) 637; preserve &c. 670.
- Adj. stored &c. v. ; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare,
- supernumerary.
- Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
-
- #637. Provision. -- N. provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill;
- subvention &c. (aid) 707; resources &c. (means) 632; groceries, grocery.
- providing &c. v.; purveyance; reenforcement; commissariat.
- provender &c. (food) 298; ensilage; viaticum.
- caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple, feeder,
- batman, victualer, grocer, comprador, restaurateur; jackal, pelican;
- sutler &c. (merchant) 797.
- grocery shop [U. S.], grocery store.
- V. provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a
- stock, lay in a store.
- supply, suppeditate|; furnish; find, find one in; arm.
- cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock
- with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.
- have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep
- on hand; have to fall back upon; store &c. 636; provide against a rainy day
- &c. (economy) 817.
-
-
- #638. Waste. -- N. consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion
- &c. 73; ebb; leakage &c. (exudation) 295; loss &c. 776; wear and tear;
- waste; prodigality &c. 818; misuse &c. 679; wasting &c. v.; rubbish &c.
- (useless) 645. mountain in labor.
- V. spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish;
- spill, drain, empty; disperse &c. 73.
- cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter
- away,; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander &c. 818.
- " waste its sweetness on the desert air " [Gray]; cast one's bread
- upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a
- nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a weel; labor in vain &c.
- (useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.
- leak &c. (run out) 295; run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.
- Adj. wasted &c. v.; at a low ebb.
- wasteful &c. (prodigal) 818; penny wise and pound foolish.
- Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; "
- idly busy rolls their world away " [Goldsmith].
-
-
- #639. Sufficiency. -- N. sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal,
- quantum sufficit, satisfaction, competence; no less.
- mediocrity &c. (average) 29.
- fill; fullness &c. (completeness) 52; plenitude, plenty; abundance;
- copiousness &c. Adj.; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; "
- good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance &c. (fertility)
- 168; affluence &c. (wealth) 803; fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk
- and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalhaea; mine &c. (stock)
- 636.
- outpouring; flood &c. (grieat quantity) 31; tide &c. (river) 348;
- repletion &c. (redundance) 641; satiety &c. 869.
- V. be sufficient &c. Adj.; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster;
- have enough &c. n.; eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill;
- roll in, swim in; wallow in &c. (superabundance) 641 ; wanton.
- abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour
- in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.
- render sufficient &c. Adj.; replenish &c .(fill) 52.
- Adj. sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate,
- competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.
- measured; moderate &c. (temperate) 953.
- full.&c. (complete) 52; ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as
- blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding &c. v.; replete, enough and to
- spare, flush; choke-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted,
- unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish &c.
- 641; wholesale.
- rich; luxuriant &c. (fertile) 168; affluent &c. (wealthy) 803;
- wantless; big with &c. (pregnant) 161.
- unexhausted, unwasted; exhaustless, inexhaustible.
- adv. sufficiently, amply &c. Adj.; full; in abundance &c. n. with no
- sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.
- phr. " cut and come again " [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug.
-
-
- #640. Insufficiency. -- N. insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness;
- incompetence &c. (impotence) 158; deficiency &c. (incompleteness) 53;
- imperfection &c. 651; shortcoming &c. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness &c.
- (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.
- scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition,
- starvation, famine, drought.
- dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations;
- banyan day.
- emptiness, poorness &c. Adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb
- tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes " [Romeo and Jul.];
- indigence &c. 804; insolvency &c. (nonpayment) 808.
-
- V. be insufficient &c. Adj.; not suffice &c. 639; come short of &c.
- 304 run dry.
- want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c. (poor) 804, live from
- hand to mouth.
- render insufficient &c. Adj.; drain of resources, impoverish &c.
- (waste) 638; stint &c. (begrudge) 819; put on short allowance.
- do insufficiently &c. adv.; scotch the snake.
- Adj. insufficient, inadequate; too little &c. 32; not enough &c. 639;
- unequal to; incompetent &c. (impotent) 158; " weighed in the balance and
- found wanting "; pertunctory &c. (neglect) 460; deficient &c. (incomplete)
- 53; wanting, &c. v.; imperfect &c. 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-
- stored, ill-off.
- slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute
- of, devoid of , bereft of &c. 789; denuded of; dry, drained.
- unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed; unstored,
- untreasured; empty-handed.
- meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved,
- starveing; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.
- scant &c. (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or
- money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c. 819; at the end of
- one's tether; without resources &c. 632; in want &c. (poor) 804; in debt
- &c. 806.
- Adv. insufficiently &c. Adj.; in default of, for want of; failing.
- Phr. semper avarus eget [Horace].
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- #641.. Redundance. -- N. redundance; too much, too many;
- superabundance, superfluity, superfluence|, saturation; nimiety,
- transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion &c. (plenty) 639;
- repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more
- than enough &c. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit,
- sickener; turgescence &c. (expansion) 194; overdose, overmeasure,
- oversupply, overflow; inundation &c. (water) 348; avalanche.
- accumulation &c. (store) 636; heap &c. 72; drug, drug in the market;
- glut; crowd; burden.
- excess; surplus, overplus; epact; margin; remainder &c. 40; duplicate;
- surplusage, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.
- luxury; intemperance &c. 954; extravagance &c. (prodigality) 818;
- exorbitance, lavishment.
- pleonasm &c. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras
- de richesses.
- V. superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every
- turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over,
- well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge,
- overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the
- mark &c. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load,
- drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; *hepatize.
- choke, cloy, accloy, suffoccate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate
- with; lavish &c. . (squander) 818.
- send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to
- Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;.kill
- the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lilly", butter one's bread on
- both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut &c.
- (waste) 638.
- exaggerate &c. 549; wallow in roll in &c. (plenty) 639 remain on one's
- hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.
- Adj. redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate,
- superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal &c.
- 818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged &c. v.;
- supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running runningover, running to
- waste, running down.
- crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst;
- dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese &c. 194.
- superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous|, uncalled for, to
- spare, in excess; over and above &c. (remainder) 40; de trop; adscititious
- &c. (additional) 37; supernumerary &c. (reserve) 636; on one's hands,
- spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort.
- adv. over, too, over and above; overmuch , too much; too far; without
- measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with . . . to spare; over head and
- ears; up to one's eyes, ears; extra; beyond the mark &c. (transcursion)
- 303; acervatim.
- Phr. it never rains but it pours; fortune multis dat mimium nulli
- satis.
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- 2. Degree of Subservience
-
- #642. Importance. -- N. importance, consequence, moment, prominence,
- consideration, mark, materialness.
- import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest.
- greatness &c. 31; superiority &c. 33; notability &c. (repute) 873;
- weight &c. (influence) 175; value &c. (goodness) 648; usefulness &c. 644.
- gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter;
- pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death.
- memorabilia, notabilia, great doings; red-letter day.
- great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "
- [Macbeth]; cardinal point; substance, gist &c. (essence) 5; sum and
- substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part,
- prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of
- one's nostrils &c. (life) 359;cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus;
- keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card &c. (device) 626; salient
- points.
- top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna, chief; triton among the
- minnows; " it" [U.S.]
- V. be important &c. adj., be somebody, be something; import, signify,
- matter, boot, be an object; carry weight &c. (influence) 175; make a figure
- &c. (repute) 873; be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way,
- take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the
- root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of
- regard, be worthy of consideration.
- attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to &c.
- n.; value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark &c. 550; mark with
- a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in
- italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put
- in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on.
- make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece
- of work about, make much ado about; make much ado of,make much of.
- Adj. important; of importance &c. n.; momentous, material; to the
- point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at;
- egregious; weighty &c. (influential) 175; of note &c. (repute) 873;
- notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable;
- worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring,
- eventful.
- grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding,
- imposing.
- urgent, pressing, critical, instant.
- paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief,
- main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of
- vital &c. importance.
- in the front rank, first-rate; superior &c. 33; considerable &c.
- (great) 31; marked &c. v.; rare &c. 137.
- significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti.
- adv. materially &c. Adj.; in the main; above all, <gr/kat ezochen/gr>,
- par excellence, to crown all, to beat all.
- Phr. expende Hannibalem! [Juvenal].
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-
- #643. Unimportance. -- N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness,
- immateriality.
- triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness &c. Adj.; poverty; smallness
- &c. 32; vanity &c. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference &c. 866; no
- object.
- nothing, nothing to signify,, nothing worth speaking of, nothing
- particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no
- great matter, trifling matter &c. Adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly
- anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great
- shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel.
- toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimerack, gewgaw, bauble,
- trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knicknack, whim-wham, trifle, " trifles light
- as air "; yankee notions [U. S.].
- trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or
- prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse &c.
- (inutility) 645; scum &c. (dirt) 653.
- joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge &c. (unmeaning) 517;
- fiddlestick, fiddlestick end; pack of nonsense, mere farce.
- straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing,
- brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son,; cent,
- mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent [U.S.].
- minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance,
- feather in the *seale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.
- nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus; flash in the pan &c. (impotence)
- 158; much ado about nothing &c. (overestimation) 482.
- V. be unimportant &c. Adj.; not matter &c. 642; go for nothing, matter
- nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not
- matter a straw &c. n.
- make light of &c. (underestimate) 483; catch at straws &c.
- (overestimate) 482.
- Adj.,unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account,
- of little importance, of no importance &c. 642; immaterial; unessential,
- nonessential; indifferent.
- subordinate &c. (inferior) 34; mediocre &c. (average) 29; passable,
- fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common;
- ordinary &c. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant,
- inappreciable.
- trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle;
- puerile &c. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak &c. 160; powerless &c. 158;
- frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous,
- farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby,
- wishy-washy, milk and water.
- poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible &c. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean,
- meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel, weedy,
- niggardly, scurvy, putid, beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny, cheap,
- trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U. S.]. not worth the
- pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not
- worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw &c. n.;1 beneath
- notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath
- consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina; vain &c.
- (useless) 645.
-
- Adv. slightly &c. adj.; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for
- aught one cares.
- Int. no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge!
- bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind!
- n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that,
- what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff!
- nonsense!
- Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas; le jeu ne. vaut pas la chandelle; it
- matters not, it does not signify; it is of no consequence, it is of no
- importance; elephantus non capit murem; tempete dans un verre d'eau.
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- #644. Utility. -- N. utility; usefulness &c. adj.; efficacy,
- efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help &c. (aid) 707;
- applicability &c. adj.; subservience &c. (instrmentality) 631; function &c.
- (busbiness) 625; value; worth &c. (goodness) 648; money's worth;
- productiveness &c. 168; cui bono &c. (intention) 620; utilization &c. (use)
- 677 step in the right direction.
- common weal; commonwealth public good, public interest; utilitarianism
- &c. (philanthropy) 910.
- V. be useful &c. adj.; avail, serve; subserve &c. (be instrumental to)
- 631; conduce &c. (tend) 176; answer , serve one's turn, answer a purpose,
- serve a purpose.
- act a part &c. (action) 680; perform a function, discharge a function
- &c.; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service;
- bestead, stand one in good stead be the making of; help &c. 707.
- bear fruit &c. (produce) 161; bring grist to the mill; profit,
- remunerate; benefit &c. (do good) 648.
- find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of
- &c. (be better for) 658. render useful &c. (use) 677.
- Adj. useful; of use &c. n.; serviceable, proficuous|, good for;
- subservient &c. (instrumental) 631.; conducive &c. (tending) 176;
- subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
- advantageous &c. (beneficial) 648; profitable, gainful, remunerative,
- worth one's salt; valuable; prolific &c. (productive) 168.
- adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient &c.
- 646.
- applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious,
- adaptable; of all work.
- adv. usefully &c. adj.; pro bono publico.
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- #645. Inutility. -- N. inutility; uselessness &c. adj.; inefficacy,
- futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience; inadequacy &c.
- (insufficiency) 640; inefficiency.&c. (incompetence) 158; unskillfulness
- &c. 699; disservice; unfruitfulness &c.(unproductiveness). 169; labor in
- vain, labor lost, labor of Sisyphus; lost trouble, lost labor; work of
- Penelope; sleeveless errand, wild goose chase, mere farce.
- tautology &c. (repetition) 104; supererogation &c. (redundance) 641.
- vanitas vanitatum, vanity, inanity, worthlessness, nugacity;
- triviality &c. (unimportance) 643.
- caput mortuum, waste paper, dead letter; blunt tool.
- litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button
- top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings,
- waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs &c.
- (dirt) 653; weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.
- fruges consumere natus [Horace] &c. (drone) 683.
- V. be useless &c. Adj.; go a begging &c. (redundant) 641; fail &c.
- 732.
- seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain
- efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the
- waves, battre l'eau avec un baton, donner un coup d'epee dans l'eau, fish
- in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well, sow the sand;
- bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds; whistle jigs to a
- milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des moulins; lock the
- stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn door after the horse is
- stolen &c. (too late) 135; hold a farthing candle to the sun; cast pearls
- before swine &c. (waste) 638; carry coals to Newcastle &c. (redundance)
- 641; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible) 471.
- render useless &c. adj.; dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify,
- disable; unrig; cripple, lame &c. (injure) 659; spike guns, clip the wings;
- put out of gear.
- Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless;
- inoperative &c. 158; inadequate &c. (insufficient) 640; inservient|,
- unsubservient; inept, inefficient &c. (impotent) 158; of no avail &c. (use)
- 644; ineffectual &c. (failure) 732; incompetent &c. (unskillful) 699; "
- stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous &c. (redundant) 641;
- dispensable; thrown away &c. (wasted) 638; abortive &c. (immature) 674.
- worthless, valueless, priceless; unsalable; not worth a straw &c.
- (trifling) 643 dear at any price.
- vain, empty, inane; gainless, profitless, fruitless; unserviceable,
- unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive &c. 169; hors de combat; effete, past
- work &c. (impaired) 659; obsolete &c. (old) 124; fit for the dust hole;
- good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and
- shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.
- Adv. uselessly &c. adj.; to little purpose, to no purpose, to little
- or no purpose.
- Int. cui bono? what's the good!
- Phr. actum ne agas; chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin;
- tanto buon che val niente.
-
- #646. [Specific subservience.] Expedience. -- N. expedience,
- expediency; desirableness, desirability &c. adj.; fitness &c. (agreement)
- 23; utility &c. 644; propriety; opportunism; advantage.
- high time &c. (occasion) 134.
- V. be expedient &c. Adj.; suit &c. (agree) 23; befit; suit the time,
- befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion,
- befit the occasion.
- conform &c. 82.
- Adj. expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth
- while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming;
- befitting &c. v.; opportune &c. (in season) 134; in loco; suitable &c.
- (accordant) 23; applicable &c. (useful) 644.
- Adv. in the right place; conveniently &c. adj.
- Phr. operae pretium est.
-
-
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- #647. Inexpedience. -- N. inexpedience, inexpediency; undesirableness,
- undesirability &c. Adj.; discommodity, impropriety; unfitness &c.
- (disagreement) 24; inutility &c. 645; disadvantage.
- V. be inexpedient &c. Adj.; come amiss &c. (disagree) 24; embarrass
- &c. (hinder) 706; put to inconvenience; pay too dear for one's whistle.
- Adj. inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable;
- objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious,
- discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit &c. (inconsonant) 24.
- ill-contrived, ill-advised; unsatisfactory; unprofitable &c.,
- unsubservient &c. (useless) 645; inopportune &c. (unseasonable) 135; out of
- place, in the wrong place; improper, unseemly.
- clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy, hulky;
- unmanageable &c. (impracticable) 704; impedient &c. (in the way) 706.
- unnecessary &c. (redundant) 641.
- Phr. it will never do.
-
-
- #648. [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness. -- N.
- goodness &c. adj.; excellence, merit; virtue &c. 944; value, worth, price.
- super-excellence, supereminence; superiority &c. 33; perfection &c.
- 650; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream,
- elite, pick, A1, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the
- flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy.
- tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel,
- pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a
- thousand.
- beneficence &c. 906; good man &c. 948.
- V. be beneficial &c. Adj.; produce good, do good &c. 618; profit &c.
- (be of use) 644; benefit; confer a benefit &c. 618.
- be the making of, do a world of good, make a man of.
- produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve
- &c. 658.
- do no harm, break no bones.
- be good &c. adj.; excel, transcend &c. (be superior) 33; bear away the
- bell.
- stand the proof, stand the test; pass muster, pass an examination.
- challenge comparison, vie, emulate, rival.
- Adj. harmless, hurtless; unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent,
- inoffensive.
- beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable &c. (useful) 644;
- advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary &c. (healthful) 656.
- favorable; propitious &c. (hope-giving) 858; fair.
- good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior &c. 33; above par;
- nice, fine; genuine &c. (true) 494.
- best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless;
- unparagoned, unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superlatively &c. 33; good;
- bully* , crackajack*, giltedged; superfine, superexcellent; of the first
- water; first-rate, first-class; high-wrought, exquisite, very best, crack,
- prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal; standard &c. (perfect) 650; inimitable.
- admirable, estimable; praiseworthy &c. (approve) 931; pleasing &c.
- 829; couleur de rose, precious, of great price; costly &c. (dear) 814;
- worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable,
- inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye.
- tolerable &c. (not very good) 651; up to the mark, unexceptionable,
- unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy.
- in good condition, in fair condition; fresh; sound &c. (perfect) 650.
- Adv. beneficially &c. adj.; well &c. 618.
- Phr. " Jewels five words long " [Tennyson]; long may such goodness
- live! " [Rogers]; "the luxury of doing good " [Goldsmith].
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- #649. [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness. -- N.
- hurtfulness &c. Adj.; virulence.
- evil doer &c. 913; bane &c. 663; plague spot &c. (insalubrity) 657;
- evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the
- closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side.
- malignity; malevolence &c. 907; tender mercies [ironically].
- ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution,
- outrage; misusage &c. 679; injury &c. (damage) 659; knockout drops [U. S.].
- badness &c. adj.; peccancy, abomination; painfulness &c. 830;
- pestilence &c. (disease) 655; guilt &c. 947; depravity &c. 945.
- V. be burtful &c. adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work
- evil, do evil &c. 619; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure &c. (damage)
- 659; pain &c. 830.
- wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear
- hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run
- down; molest &c. 830.
- maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul;
- smite &c. (scourge) 972; do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce,
- outrage.
- do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble.
- destroy &c. 162.
- Adj. hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious,
- deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of
- mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome;
- prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting.
- unlucky, sinister; obnoxious; untoward, disastrous.
- oppressive, burdensome, onerous; malign &c. (malevolent) 907.
- corrupting &c. (corrupt &c. 659); virulent, venomous, envenomed,
- corrosive; poisonous &c. (morbific) 657; deadly &c. (killing) 361;
- destructive &c. (destroying) 162; inauspicious &c. 859.
- bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible;
- dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.
- vile, base, villanous; mean &c. (paltry) 643; injured &c. deteriorated
- &c. 659; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par &c.
- (imperfect) 651; illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous,
- deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful &c. (painful) 830.
- evil, wrong; depraved &c. 945; shocking; reprehensible &c.
- (disapprove) 932. hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable,
- execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal;
- diabolic &c. (malevolent) 907.
- unadvisable &c. (inexpedient) 647; unprofitable &c. (useless) 645;
- incompetent &c. (unskillful) 699; irremediable &c. (hopeless) 859.
-
-
- Adv. badly &c. Adj. ; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe
- pinches.
- Phr. bad is the best: the worst come to the worst; herba mala presto
- cresco; "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged " [Wordsworth].
-
- #650. Perfection. -- N. perfection; perfectness &c. adj.;
- indefectibility; impeccancy, impeccability.
- pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of
- perfection; ne plus ultra; summit &c. 210.
- cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor.
- model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very
- prince of.
- masterpiece, superexcellence &c. (goodness) 648; transcendence &c.
- (superiority) 33.
- V. be perfect &c. adj.; transcend &c. (be supreme) 33.
- bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete &,,c. 729; put
- in trim &c. (prepare) 673; maturate.
- Adj. perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible;
- immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection &c. 651;
- unblemished, uninjured &c. 659; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect
- condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy &c. (safe) 644; right as
- a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Horace]; consummate &c.
- (complete) 52; finished &c. 729.
- best &c. (good) 648; model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned,
- unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superhuman, divine; beyond all praise &c.
- (approbation) 931; sans peur et sans reproche.
- adv. to perfection; perfectly &c. adj.; ad unguem; clean, - as a
- whistle.
- phr. " let us go on unto perfection " [ Hebrews vi, 1]; " the
- perfection of art is to conceal art [Quintilian].
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- #651. Imperfection. -- N. imperfection; imperfectness &c. Adj.;
- deficiency; inadequacy &c. (insufficiency) 640; peccancy &c. (badness) 649;
- immaturity &c. 674.
- fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw &c. (break) 70; gap &c.
- 198; twist &c. 243; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat;
- blemish &c. 848; weakness &c. 160; half blood; shortcoming &c. 304;
- drawback; seamy side.
- mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of;
- one-borse shay.
- V. be imperfect &c. adj.; have a defect &c. n.; lie under a
- disadvantage; spring a leak.
- not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short &c. 304.
- Adj. imperfect; not perfect &c. 650; deficient, defective; faulty,
- unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped
- &c. (distort) 243; lame; injured &c. (deteriorated) 659; peccant &c. (bad)
- 649; frail &c. (weak) 160; inadequate &c. (insufficient) 640; crude &c.
- (unprepared) 674; incomplete &c. 53; found wanting,; below par; short-
- handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full
- complement.
- indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average &c. 29; so-so;
- coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty
- good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough,
- adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable, unobjectionable,
- admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.
- secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].
- Adv. almost &c.; to a limited extent, rather &c. 32; pretty,
- moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough.
- Phr. surgit amari aliquid.
-
- #652. Cleanness. -- N. cleanness, cleanliness &c. adj.; purity;
- cleaning &c. v.; purification, defecation &c. v.; purgation, lustration;
- detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation|; ablution, lavation,
- colature|; disinfection &c. v.; drainage, sewerage.
- lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi,
- laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings [Local U. S.]
- brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter;
- blotter.
- napkin, cloth, maukin|, malkin|, handkerchief, towel, sudary; doyley,
- doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.
- cover, drugget.
- wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier &c. v.;
- disinfectant; aperient; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin; bleaching powder,
- chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative.
- V. be clean, render clean &c. Adj.
- clean, cleanse; mundify|, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop,
- sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.
- wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge|, deterge; decrassify; clear,
- purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate,
- lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain,
- strain.
- disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate,
- emasculate.
- sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.
- rout out, clear out, sweep out &c.; make a clean sweep of.
- Adj. clean, cleanly; pure; immaculale; spotless, stainless, taintless;
- trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied,
- untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut.
- neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in
- pattens; cleaned &c. v.; kempt.
- abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
- Adv. neatly &c. adj.; clean as a whistle.
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- #653. Uncleanness. -- N. uncleanness &c. Adj.; impurity; immundity,
- immundicity; impurity &c. [of mind] 961.
- defilement, contamination &c. v.; defoedation|; soilure, soiliness|;
- abomination; leaven; taint, tainture|; fetor &c. 401. decay; putrescence,
- putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo|.
- slovenry; slovenliness &c. Adj. squalor.
- dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin|, slammock,
- slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dustman, sweep; beast.
- dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge,
- smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle.
-
- sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap;
- dross, drossiness; mother|, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.
- reerement, slag; scum, froth.
- hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, czheeseparings;
- sweepings &c. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings, outscourings; off scum;
- caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness;
- exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar.
- riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch.
- mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh,
- sposh [U. S.].
- spawn, offal, gurry [U. S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; exereta &c.
- 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces,
- feces, , excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit; sewage, sewerage; muck;
- coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
- dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes;
- toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain,
- sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.
- sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum,
- rookery.
- V. be unclean, become unclean &c. Adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester,
- rankle, reek; stink &c. 401; mold, molder; go bad &c. adj.
- render unclean &c. adj.; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge,
- smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch;
- begrease;.dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear &c.,
- bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully,
- pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven;, corrupt &c. (injure)
- 659; cover with dust &c. n.; drabble in the mud; roil.
- wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.
- Adj. unclean, dirty, filthy, grimy; soiled &c. v.; not to be handled
- with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid,
- dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].
- uncleanly, slovenly, untidy, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed;
- uncombed, unkempt, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained,
- unpurified; grody to the max; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky,
- sozzly.
- nasty, coarse, foul, impure, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky,
- reechy; fetid &c. 401.
- moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad,
- gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten,
- corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive,
- putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant;
- fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy,
- impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as
- cheese.
- crapulous &c. (intemperate) 954; gross &c. (impure in mind) 961;
- fimetarious, fimicolous.
- Phr. " they that touch pitch will be defiled " [Much Ado About
- Nothing].
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- #654. Health. -- N. health, sanity; soundness &c. adj.; vigor; good
- health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health;
- bloom. mens sana in corpore sano; Hygeia; incorruption, incorruptibility;
- good state of health, clean bill of health; eupepsia; euphoria, euphory;
- St. Anthony's fire.
- V. be in health &c. adj. bloom, flourish.
- keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health,
- enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of health.
- return to health; recover &c. 660; get better &c. (improve) 658; take
- a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure
- &c. (restore) 660; tinker.
- Adj. healthy, healthful; in health &c. n.; well, sound, hearty, hale,
- fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust,
- vigorous, weatherproof.
- unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed, unmarred, untainted; sound of wind and
- limb, safe and sound.
- on one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy,
- fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high
- feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as
- well as can be expected.
- sanitary &c. (health-giving) 656; sanatory &c. (remedial) 662.
- phr. " health that snuffs the morning air" [Grainger); non est vivere
- sed valere vita [Martial].
-
-
- #655. Disease. -- N. disease; illness, sickness &c. adj.; ailing &c. "
- all the ills that flesh is heir to " [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity|;
- infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper,
- distemperature.
- visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
- delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy; cachexia, atrophy,
- marasmus; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay &c. (deterioration) 659; decline,
- consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
- taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation; epidemic,
- pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, virus, pox.
- sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple &c. (swelling) 250;
- carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold
- sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease,
- malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus,
- sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out.
- fever, calenture; inflammation.
- ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic
- cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague,
- pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning,
- bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial
- fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of
- the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash,
- cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea,
- cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema;
- gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu;
- hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes,
- itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis,
- phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm,
- rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula,
- seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsilitis, tracheocele,
- trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping
- cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.
- fatal disease &c. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping
- consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.
- [Disease of mind] idiocy &c. 499; insanity &c. 503.
- martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind";
- valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-
- chamber.
- [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology.
- [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague,
- glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia,
- roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.
- V. be ill &c. adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with,
- complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.
- keep one's bed; feign sickness &c. (falsehood) 544.
- lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease &c. n., catch an
- infection; break out.
- Adj. diseased; ailing &c. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with;
- indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness,
- afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in
- hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather
- [U. S.]; valetudinary.
- unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic,
- unbraced. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting.
- morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid,
- mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core;
- withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic,
- phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.
- touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat
- &c. (useless) 645.
- weakly, weakened &c. (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed &c. (deteriorated)
- 659; incurable &c. (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad
- way, in danger, prostrate; moribund &c. (death) 360.
- morbific &c. 657; epidemic, endemic; zymotic.
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- #656. Salubrity. -- N. salubrity; healthiness &c. Adj.
- fine air, fine climate; eudiometer.
- [Preservation of health] hygiene; valetudinarian, valetudinarianism;
- sanitarian; sanitarium, sanitOrium.
- V. be salubrious &c. Adj.; agree with; assimilate &c. 23.
- Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous; wholesome; healthy,
- healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating,
- good for, nutritious; hygeian, hygienic.
- innoxious, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious.
- sanative &c. (remedial) 662; restorative &c. (reinstate) 660; useful
- &c. 644.
-
- #657. Insalubrity. -- N. insalubrity; unhealthiness &c. Adj.;
- nonnaturals; plague spot; malaria &c. (poison) 663; death in the pot,
- contagion; toxicity.
- Adj. insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific,
- morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous,
- pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous,
- narcotic.
- contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic;
- epizootic.
- innutritious, indigestible, ungenial; uncongenial &c. (disagreeing)
- 24.
- deadly &c. (killing) 361.
-
-
- #658. Improvement. -- N. improvement; amelioration, melioration;
- betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending &c. v.; advancement;
- advance &c. (progress) 282; ascent &c. 305; promotion, preferment;
- elevation &c. 307; increase &c. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture,
- march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics.
- reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts,
- correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification &c. 652;
- oxidation; repair &c. (restoration) 660; recovery &c. 660.
- revise, new edition.
- reformer, radical.
- V. improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.
- advance &c. (progress) 282; ascend &c. 305; increase &c. 35; fructify,
- ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over
- a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover
- &c. 660.
- be better &c. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to
- good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make
- good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.
- render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate;
- correct; decrassify.
- improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.
- promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring
- on; foster &c. 707; invigorate &c. (strengthen) 159.
- touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten
- up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune;
- repair &c. (restore) 660; put in order &c. (arrange) 60.
- review, revise; make -corrections,make improvements &c. n.; doctor &c.
- (remedy) 662; purify,&c. 652.
- relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.
- reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.
- view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to
- Philip sober.
- palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil &c. 36 .
- Adj. improving &c. v.; progressive, improved &c. v.; better, better
- off, better for; all the better for; better advised.
- reformatory, emendatory; reparatory &c. (restorative) 660; remedial
- &c. 662.
- corrigible, improvable; accultural.
- adv. on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on
- better advice; ad melius inquirendum.
- phr. urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.
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- #659. Deterioration. -- N. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb;
- recession &c. 287; retrogradation &c. 283; decrease &c. 36.
- degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation,
- depravement; devolution; depravity &c. 945; demoralization, retrogression;
- masochism.
- impairment, inquination|, injury, damage, loss, detriment,
- delaceration|, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,
- prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation|,
- poisoning, venenation|, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption,
- adulteration, alloy.
- decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency; falling off
- &c. v.; caducity, decrepitude.
- decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion,
- erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight, marasmus,
- atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement &c. (destruction). 162;
- aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron; vinefretter, vinegrub.
- wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra; jade, plug,
- rackabones [U. S.], skate [U. S.]; tackey, tacky [U. S.].
- V. be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated &c.
- Adj.; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane &c.
- (decrease) 36; ebb; retrograde &c. 283- decline, droop; go down &c. (sink)
- 306; go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out
- of the frying pan into the fire.
- run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale|, sweal|; lapse, be the
- worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start;
- shrivel &c. (contract) 195; fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle,
- decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and
- yellow leaf," rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish &c.
- 162; die &c. 360.
- [Render less good] deteriorate; weaken &c. 160; put back, set back;
- taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt,
- exulcerate|, pollute, vitiate, inquinate|; debase, embase|; denaturalize,
- denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate;
- stain &c. (dirt) 653; discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper
- with, prejudice.
- pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious &c. 945.
- embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate.
- injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend|, scath|, scathe,
- spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage &c. 791.
- wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate|, cripple, hough, hamstring,
- hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish,
- deface, warp.
- blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the
- root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up;
- disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy &c. 162.
- damnify &c. (aggrieve) 649; do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow
- to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the
- deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc
- among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil
- among; decimate.
- Adj. unimproved &c. (improve &c. 658); deteriorated &c. v.; altered,
- altered for the worse; injured &c. v.; sprung; withering, spoiling &c. v.;
- on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse
- for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect &c. 651; the
- worse for wear; battered; weathered, weatherbeaten; stale, passe, shaken,
- dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn,
- worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags;
- reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky [U. S.*].
- decayed &c. v.; motheaten, wormeaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy, spotted,
- seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted, crumbling,
- moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved &c. (vicious) 945;
- decrepid, decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of commission, broken down;
- done, done for, done up; worn out, used up, finished; fit for the dust
- hole, fit for the wastepaper basket past work &c. (useless) 645.
- at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous;
- nodding to its fall &c. (destruction) 162; tottering &c,. (dangerous) 665:
- past cure &c. (hopeless) 859; fatigued &c. 688; retrograde &c.
- (retrogressive) 283; deleterious &c. 649.
-
- phr. out of the frying pan into the fire; agrescit medendo; "what a falling
- off was there! " [Hamlet].
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- #660. Restoration. -- N. restoration, restoral; reinstatement,
- replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution,
- reconstruction; reproduction &c. 163; renovation, renewal; revival,
- revivessence, reviviscence; refreshment &c. 689; resuscitation,
- reanimation, revivification, reviction|; Phenix; reorganization.
- renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence,. new birth; regeneration,
- regeneracy, regenerateness; palingenesis, reconversion.
- redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery; convalescence; resumption,
- resumption; sanativeness.
- recurrence &c. (repetition) 104; rechauffe, rifacimento.
- cure, recure|, sanation|; healing &c. v.; redintegration;
- rectification; instauration.
- repair, reparation; recruiting &c. v.; cicatrization; disinfection;
- tinkering.
- reaction; redemption &c. (deliverance) 672; restitution &c. 790;
- relief &c. 834.
- tinker, cobbler; vis medicatrix &c. (remedy) 662. curableness.
- V. return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to,
- come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself
- again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise
- from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive &c. (outlive) 110; resume,
- reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.
- heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.
- restore, put back, place in statu quo; reinstate, replace, reseat,
- rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate, reinstall.
- reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew,
- renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.
- redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue &c. (deliver) 672.
- redress, recure; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break
- of; bring round, set on one's legs.
- resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce
- &c. 163; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh &c. 689.
- redintegrate, make whole; recoup &c. 790; make good, make all square;
- rectify; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set
- straight; set up, correct; put in order &c. (arrange) 60; refit, recruit;
- fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.
- repair; put in repair, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair;
- retouch, botch|, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch, up plaster up, vamp
- up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk,
- careen, splice, bind up wounds.
- Adj. restored &c. v.; redivivus, convalescent; in a fair way; none the
- worse; rejuvenated.
- restoring &c. v.; restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative,
- sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial.
- restorable, recoverable, sanable, remediable, retrieveable, curable.
- Adj. in statu quo; as you were.
- phr. revenons a nos moutons; medecin, gueris-toi toi-meme; vestigia nulla
- retrorsum [Horace].
-
-
- #661. Relapse. -- N. relapse, lapse; falling back &c. v.;
- retrogradation &c. (retrogression) 283; deterioration &c. 659.
- [Return to, or recurrence of a bad state] backsliding, recidivation |;
- recidivism, recidivity; recrudescence.
- V. relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return;
- retrograde &c. 283; recidivate; fall off again &c. 659 .
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- #662. Remedy. -- N. remedy, help, redress; anthelmintic; antidote,
- antifebrile, antipoison, counterpoison, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer,
- faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue, lithagogue, pick-meup, stimulant,
- tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative &c. 174;
- palliative; febrifuge; alterant, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic,
- analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive, antiinflammatory, antibiotic,
- antiviral, antifungal, carminative; Nepenthe, Mithridate.
- cure, treatment, regimen; radical cure, perfect cure, certain cure;
- sovereign remedy.
- examination, diagnosis, diagnostics; analysis, urinalysis, biopsy,
- radiology.
- medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical,
- prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion,
- drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon.
- nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon, panacea, elixir,
- elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac, ptisan.
- agueweed, arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset, calomel,
- catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts; feverroot, feverwort;
- friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous
- chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina; sassafras, yarrow.
- salve, ointment, cerate, oil, lenitive, lotion, cosmetic; plaster;
- epithem, embrocation, liniment, cataplasm, sinapism, arquebusade,
- traumatic, vulnerary, pepastic, poultice, collyrium, depilatory;
- emplastrum; eyewater, vesicatory.
- compress, pledget; bandage &c. (support) 215.
- treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis
- medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting,
- bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisuge, leeches; operation,
- surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter,
- feeding tube;
- prevention, preventative medicine, immunization, inoculation,
- vaccination, vaccine, shot, booster, gamma globulin.
- pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutics; pharmacopoeia, formulary;
- acology, Materia Medica, therapeutics, posology; homeopathy, allopathy,
- heteropathy, osteopathy, hydropathy; cold water cure; dietetics; surgery,
- chirurgery, chirurgy; healing art, leechcraft;
- orthopedics, orthopedy, orthopraxy; pediatrics; dentistry, midwifery,
- obstetrics, gynecology; tocology; sarcology.
- hospital, infirmary; pesthouse, lazarhouse; lazaretto; lock hospital;
- maison de sante; ambulance.
- dispensary; dispensatory, drug store, pharmacy, apothecary, druggist,
- chemist.
- Hotel des Invalides; sanatarium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red
- Cross.
- doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general
- practitioner, specialist ; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech;
- osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist,
- oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist;
- dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack,
- exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse,
- midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical
- nurse, monthly nurse, sister; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist,
- pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist.
- V. apply a remedy &c. n.; doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to,
- attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent &c. 706; relieve &c. 834;
- palliate &c. 658; restore &c. 660; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let
- blood; manicure.
- operate, excise, cut out; incise.
-
- Adj. remedial; restorative &c. 660; corrective, palliative, healing;
- sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous
- &c. (salutary) 656; medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical,
- epulotic|, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne,
- hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent|, emollient;
- depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal,
- alterative; traumatic, vulnerary.
- allopathic, heteropathic, homeopathic, hydropathic; anthelmintic;
- antifebile, antiluetic; aperient, chalybeate, deobstruent, depurative,
- laxative, roborant.
- dietetic, alimentary; nutritious, nutritive; peptic; alexipharmic,
- alexiteric; remediable, curable.
- phr. aux grands maux les grands remedes; Dios que da la llaga da la
- medicina; para todo hay remedio sino para la muerte; temporis ars medicina
- fere est [Ovid]; " the remedy is worse than the disease " [Dryden]; " throw
- physic to the dogs, I'll none of it " [Macbeth].
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- #663. Bane. -- N. bane, curse; evil &c. 619; hurtfulness &c. (badness)
- 649; painfulness &c. (cause of pain) 830; scourge &c. (punishment) 975;
- damnosa hereditas; white elephant.
- sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle.
- poison, leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic;
- strychnine, nicotine; miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest.
- Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury;
- carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp;
- hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux
- vomica, ratsbane.
- rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot;
- canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper &c. (evil doer) 913; demon &c.
- 980.
- hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite;
- banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree.
- [Science of poisons] toxicology.
- Adj. baneful &c. (bad) 649; poisonous &c. (unwholesome) 657.
- phr. bibere venenum in auro.
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- 3. Contingent Subservience
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-
- #664. Safety. -- N. safety, security, surety, impregnability;
- invulnerability, invulnerableness &c. Adj.; danger past, danger over;
- storm blown over; coast clear; escape &c. 671; means of escape; blow valve,
- safety valve, release valve, sniffing valve; safeguard, palladium.
- guardianship, wardship, wardenship; tutelage, custody, safekeeping;
- preservation &c. 670; protection, auspices.
- safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield &c. (defense) 717;
- guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci.
- protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna,
- chaperon, third person.
- watchdog, bandog; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop, dick,
- fuzz, smokey, peeler|, zarp|[all slang]; sentinel, sentry, scout &c.
- (warning) 668; garrison; guardship.
- [Means of safety] refuge &c. anchor &c. 666; precaution &c.
- (preparation) 673; quarantine, cordon sanitaire. [Sense of security]
- confidence &c. 858.
- V. be safe &c. Adj.; keep one's head above water, tide over, save
- one's bacon; ride out the storm, weather the storm; light upon one's feet,
- land on one's feet; bear a charmed life; escape &c. 671.
- make safe , render safe &c. Adj.; protect; take care of &c. (care)
- 459; preserve &c. 670; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard
- &c. (defend) 717; secure &c. (restrain) 751; intrench, fence round &c.
- (circumscribe) 229; house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.
- escort, convoy; garrison; watch, mount guard, patrol.
- make assurance doubly sure &c. (caution) 864; take up a loose thread;
- take precautions &c. (prepare for) 673; double reef topsails.
- seek safety; take shelter, find shelter &c. 666.
- Adj. safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side;
- under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the
- shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out
- of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on
- sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened,
- unmolested; protected &c. v.; cavendo tutus; panoplied &c. (defended) 717.
- snug, seaworthy; weatherproof, waterproof, fireproof.
- defensible, tenable, proof against, invulnerable; unassailable,
- unattackable, impenetrable; impregnable, imperdible|; inexpugnable;
- Achillean.
- safe and sound &c. (preserved) 670; harmless; scathless &c. (perfect)
- 650; unhazarded; not dangerous &c. 665.
- protecting &c. v.; guardian, tutelary; preservative &c. 670;
- trustworthy &c 939.
- adv. ex abundanti cautela; with impunity.
- phr. all's well; salva res est; suave mari magno; a couvert; e terra
- alterius spectare laborem [Lucretius]; Dieu vous garde.
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- #665. Danger. -- N. danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard,
- venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability &c. 149; defenselessness
- &c. Adj. exposure &c. (liability) 177; vulnerability; vulnerable point,
- heel of Achilles; forlorn hope &c. (hopelessness) 859.
- [Dangerous course] leap in the dark &c. (rashness) 863; road to ruin,
- faciles descensus Averni [Vergil], hairbreadth escape.
- cause for alarm; source of danger &c. 667. [Approach of danger] rock
- ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds
- gathering; warning &c. 668; alarm &c. 669. [Sense of danger] apprehension
- &c. 860.
- V. be in danger &c. Adj.; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur
- danger, encounter danger &c. n.; run a risk; lay oneself open to &c.
- (liability) 177; lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the
- ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against
- one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be
- between a rock and a hard place.
- hang by a thread, totter; sleep on a volcano, stand on a volcano; sit
- on a barrel of gunpowder, live in a glass house.
- bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger , place in jeopardy,
- put in jeopardy &c. n.; endanger, expose to danger, imperil; jeopard,
- jeopardize; compromise; sail too near the wind &c. (rash) 863.
- adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard; run the
- gauntlet &c. (dare) 861; engage in a forlorn hope.
- threaten danger &c. 909; run one hard; lay a trap for &c. (deceive)
- 545.
- Adj. in danger &c. n.; endangered &c. v.; fraught with danger;
- dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous|; unsafe, unprotected
- &c. (safe, protect &c. 664);insecure, . untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on
- a sandy basis; wildcat.
- defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless; unshielded; vulnerable,
- expugnable, exposed; open to &c. (liable) 177.
- aux abois, at bay; on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on
- the rocks.
- at stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery,
- slippy; hanging by a thread &c. v.; with a halter round one's neck; between
- the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and
- a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires;
- on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a
- precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground,
- under fire; not out of the wood.
- unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, ununprepared &c. 674; off one's
- guard &c. (inexpectant) 508.
- tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown,
- ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way;
- reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the
- balance; nodding to its fall &c. (destruction) 162. threatening &c. 909;
- ominous, illomened; alarming &c. (fear) 860; explosive.
- adventurous &c. (rash) 863, (bold) 861.
- phr. incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim; nam tua res agitur
- paries dum proximus ardet.
-
-
- #666. [Means of safety.] Refuge. -- N. refuge, sanctuary, retreat,
- fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison &c. 752; asylum, ark,
- home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse; hiding place &c. (ambush) 530;
- sanctum sanctorum &c. (privacy) 893.
- roadstead, anchorage; breakwater, mole, port, haven; harbor, harbor of
- refuge; seaport; pier, jetty, embankment, quay.
- covert, cover, shelter, screen, lee wall, wing, shield, umbrella;
- barrier; dashboard, dasher [U.S.].
- wall &c. (inclosure) 232; fort &c. (defense) 717.
- anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick;
- mainstay; support &c. 215; cheek &c. 706; ballast.
- jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning
- rod, lightning conductor.
- means of escape &c. (escape) 671 lifeboat, swimming belt, cork jacket;
- parachute, plank, steppingstone.
- safeguard &c. (protection) 664.
- V. seek refuge, take refuge, find refuge &c. n.; seek safety, find
- safety &c. 664; throw oneself into the arms of; break for taller timber [U.
- S.].
- create a diversion.
- Phr. bibere venenum in auro; valet anchora virtus.
-
-
- #667. [Source of danger.] Pitfall. -- N. rocks, reefs, coral reef,
- sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt|, syrtis|; Goodwin sands,
- sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf,
- flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead.
- precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush &c. 530; pitfall, trapdoor; trap
- &c. (snare) 545.
- sword of Damocles; wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the
- pot; latency &c. 526.
- ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort; firebrand, hornet's
- nest.
- Phr. latet anquis in herba [Vergil]; proximus ardet Ucalegon [Vergil].
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-
- #668. Warning. -- N. warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice
- &c. (information) 527; premonition, premonishment; prediction &c. 511;
- contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm &c. 669.
- handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow
- flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs
- of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen,
- gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.
- watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse &c. (indication of
- locality) 550. sentinel, sentry,; watch, watchman; watch and ward;
- watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac,
- scout, spy, spial|; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced
- guard, rear guard; lookout.
- cautiousness &c. 864.
- V. warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice,
- give warning, dehort; menace &c. (threaten) 909; put on one's guard; sound
- the alarm &c. 669; croak.
- beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and
- ward &c. (care) 459.
- Adj. warning &c. v.; premonitory, monitory, cautionary; admonitory,
- admonitive; sematic.
- warned, forewarned &c. v.; on one's guard &c. (careful) 459,
- (cautious) 864.
- adv. in terrorem &c. (threat) 909.
- Int. beware! ware! take care! look out! fore![golf], mind what you are
- about!, take care what you are about! mind!
- Phr. ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort; foenum habet in cornu; caveat
- actor; le silence du people est la legon des rois; verbum sat sapienti; un
- averti en vaut deux.
-
- #669. [Indication of danger.] Alarm. -- N. alarm; alarum, larum, alarm
- bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue
- and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop;
- warning &c. 668; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light,
- red flag; fire bell; police whistle.
- false alarm, cry of wolf; bug-bear, bugaboo.
- V. give the alarm, raise the alarm, sound the alarm, turn in the
- alarm, beat the alarm, give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm, turn
- in an alarm, beat an alarm &c. n.; alarm; warn &c. 668; ring the tocsin;
- battre la generale; cry wolf.
- Adj. alarming &c. v.
- Int. sauve qui peut! qui vive?
-
- #670. Preservation. -- N. preservation; safe-keeping; conservation &c.
- (storage) 636; maintenance, support, susteritation, conservatism; vis
- conservatrix; salvation &c. (deliverance) 672.
- [Means of preservation] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative;
- hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning;
- ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods.
- [Superstitious remedies] snake oil, cure-all; charm &c. 993.
- V. preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep
- alive; refrigerate, keep on ice;not willingly let die; bank up; nurse;
- save, rescue; be safe, make safe &c. 664; take care of &c. (care) 459;
- guard &c. (defend) 717.
- stare super antiquas vias [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground,
- stand one's ground &c. (resist) 719.
- embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize|, bottle, pot, tin, can;
- sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate,
- evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband &c. (store) 636.
- Adj. preserving &c. v.; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory,
- preservative; hygienic.
- preserved &c. v.; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged,
- unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
- Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari.
-
- #671. Escape. -- N.escape, scape; avolation|, elopement, flight;
- evasion &c. (avoidance) 623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape;
- close call; come off, impunity.
- [Means of escape] loophole &c. (opening) 260; path &c. 627; refuse &c.
- 666; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.
- reprieve &c. (deliverance) 672; liberation &c. 750. refugee &c.
- (fugitive) 623.
- V. escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good
- one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper
- belle, save one's bacon; weather the storm &c. (safe) 664; escape scot-
- free.
- elude &c., make off &c. (avoid) 623;. march off &c. (go away) 293;
- give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip
- the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose
- from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to
- creep out of.
- disappear, vanish.
- Adj..escaping, escaped &c. v. stolen away, fled.
- Phr. the bird has flown the coop.
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-
- #672. Deliverance. -- N. deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve,
- reprieval; respite; liberation &c. 750; emancipation; redemption,
- salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
- V. deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring
- off,bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch
- from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve &c. (restore)
- 660; be rid of, get rid of.
- Adj. saved &c. v. extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
- Int. to the rescue!
-
- 3. Precursory Measures
-
- #673. Preparation. -- N. preparation; providing &c. v.; provision,
- providence; anticipation &c. (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation,
- predisposition; forecast &c. (plan) 626; rehearsal, note of preparation.
- [Putting in order] arrangement &c. 60; clearance; adjustment &c. 23;
- tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.
- ripening &c. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction,
- digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.
- groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold
- &c. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage.
- [Preparation of men] training &c. (education) 537; inurement &c.
- (habit) 613; novitiate; [ Preparation of food] cooking, cookery; brewing,
- culinary art; [ Preparation of the soil] tilling, plowing, sowing;
- semination, cultivation.
- [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness,
- mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir.
- [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier,
- avant-coureur; voortrekker; sappers and miners, pavior, navvy; packer,
- stevedore; warming pan.
- V. prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle
- preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in
- order &c. (arrange) 60; forecast &c. (plan) 626 prepare the ground, plow
- the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil;
- predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix
- the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix
- the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first
- stone &c. (begin) 66.
- roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape &c.
- (form) 240.
- elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture
- &c. (aid) 707; hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue;
- infumate|; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress,
- garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up,
- brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set,
- prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust
- &c. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order,
- put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.
- train &c. (teach) 537; inure &c. (habituate) 613; breed; ppepare &c.
- for; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take
- precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door
- to &c. (facilitate) 705.
- set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for
- action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards.
- prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship &c. (learn) 539; lay oneself
- out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor,
- reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up,
- put the horses to.
- guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the
- evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's
- nest; lay in provisions &c. 637; make investments; keep on foot.
- be prepared, be ready &c. Adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one's
- powder dry; lie in wait for &c. (expect) 507; anticipate &c. (foresee) 510;
- principiis obstare; veniente occurrere morbo.
-
- Adj. preparing &c. v.; in preparation, in course of preparation, in
- agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train; afoot, afloat; on foot, on the
- stocks, on the anvil; under consideration &c. (plan) 626; brewing,
- batching, forthcoming, brooding; in store for, in reserve.
- precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional,
- inchoate, under revision; preliminary &c. (precedent) 62.
- prepared &c. v.; in readiness; ready, ready to one's band, ready made,
- ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in
- working order,in working gear; snug; in practice.
- ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced &c. (skilled) 698; labored,
- elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.
- in full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in
- the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at
- all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted
- and spurred.
- in utrumque paratus, semper paratus; on the alert &c. (vigilant) 459;
- at one's post.
- Adv. in preparation, in anticipation of; against, for; abroach.
- Phr. a bove majori discit arare minor; "looking before and after "
- [Hamlet], si vis pacem para bellum.
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-
- #674. Nonpreparation. -- N. non-preparation, absence of preparation,
- want of preparation; inculture|, inconcoction|, improvidence.
- immaturity, crudity; rawness &c. Adj.; abortion; disqualification.
- [Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded
- garden; neglect &c. 460.
-
- rough copy &c. (plan) 626; germ &c. 153; raw material &c. 635.
- improvisation &c. (impulse) 612.
- V. be unprepared &c. Adj.; want preparation, lack preparation; lie
- fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits; live from hand to mouth.
- [Render unprepared] dismantle &c. (render useless) 645; undress &c.
- 226. extemporize, improvise.
- Adj. unprepared &c. [prepare &c. 673]; without preparation &c. 673;
- incomplete &c. 53; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe,
- kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough;
- unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked,
- unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.
- unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated,
- uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged;
- precocious, premature; undigested, indigested; unmellowed, unseasoned,
- unleavened.
- fallow; unsown, untilled; natural, in a state of nature; undressed; in
- dishabille, en deshabille.
- unqualified, disqualified; unfitted; ill-digested; unbegun, unready,
- unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed;
- out of gear, out of order; dismantled &c. v.
- shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded;
- happy-go-lucky; caught napping &c. (inexpectant) 508; unpremeditated &c.
- 612.
- Adv. extempore &c. 612.
-
-
- #675. Essay. -- N. essay, trial, endeavor, attempt; aim, struggle,
- venture, adventure, speculation, coup d'essai, debut; probation &c.
- (experiment) 463.
- V. try, essay; experiment &c. 463; endeavor, strive; tempt, attempt,
- make an attempt; venture, adventure, speculate, take one's chance, tempt
- fortune; try one's fortune, try one's luck, try one's hand; use one's
- endeavor; feel one's way, grope one's way, pick one's way.
- try hard, push, make a bold push, use one's best endeavor; do one's
- best &c. (exertion) 686.
- Adj. essaying &c. v.; experimental &c. 463; tentative, empirical,
- probationary.
- Adv. experimentally &c. Adj.; on trial, at a venture; by rule of
- thumb. if one may be so bold.
- Phr. aut non tentaris aut perfice [Ovid]; chi non s'arrischia non
- guadagna.
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-
- #676. Undertaking. -- N. undertaking; compact &c. 769; adventure,
- venture; engagement &c. (promise) 768; enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage;
- matter in hand &c. (business ) 625; move; first move &c. (beginning) 66.
- V. undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into;
- volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage &c. (promise) 768; contract &c.
- 769; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to &c.
- (determination) 604.
- take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to,
- set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set
- forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put
- one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin &c.
- 66; broach, institute &c. one's originate) 153; put one's hand to the plow,
- lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.
- have in hand &c. (business) 625; have many irons in the fire &c.
- (activity) 682.
- Adj. undertaking &c. v.; on the anvil &c. 625.
- Int. here goes!
-
- #677. Use. -- N. use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation;
- application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency &c.
- (physical) 170; usufruct; usefulness &c. 644; benefit; recourse, resort,
- avail.
- [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear.
- [Way of using] usage.
- V. use,.make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in
- operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work.
- ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise,
- practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur
- to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's
- hands on, try.
- render useful &c. 644; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to
- use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into
- requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the
- service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit,
- dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.
- fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of.
- use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to
- task.
- Adj. in use; used &c. v.; well-worn, well-trodden.
- useful &c. 644; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631.
-
-
- #678. Disuse. -- N. forbearance, abstinence; disuse; relinquishment
- &c. 782; desuetude &c. (want of habit) 614; disusage.
- V. not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear,
- abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on
- the shelf, lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put
- aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard &c.
- (eject) 297; dismiss, give warning.
- throw aside &c. (relinquish) 782; make away with &c. (destroy) 162;
- cast overboard , heave overboard , throw overboard; cast to the dogs, cast
- to the winds; dismantle &c. (Render useless) 645.
- lie unemployed , remain unemployed &c. Adj.
- Adj. not used &c. v.; unemployed, unapplied, undisposed of, unspent,
- unexercised, untouched, untrodden, unessayed, ungathered, unculled;
- uncalled for, not required.
- disused &c. v.; done with.
-
- #679. Misuse. -- N. misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication,
- misappropriation.
- abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste &c. 638.
- V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate.
- desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c. 638; overtask,
- overtax, overwork: squander &c. 818.
- cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch
- at a straw.
- Adj. misused &c. v.
- Phr. ludere cum sacris.
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- Section Ill. VOLUNTARY ACTION
-
- 1. Simple voluntary Action
-
-
- #680. Action. -- N. action, performance; doing, &c. v.; perpetration;
- exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor &c.
- (exertion) 686; praxis, execution; procedure &c. (conduct) 692; handicraft;
- business &c. 625; agency &c. (power at work) 170.
- deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings,
- dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke,
- blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force &c. (display) 882;
- feat, exploit; achievement &c. (completion) 729; handiwork, workmanship;
- manufacture; stroke of policy &c. (plan) 626.
- actor &c. (doer) 690.
- V. do, perform, execute; achieve &c. (complete) 729; transact, enact;
- commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice,
- play.
- employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand &c. (business)
- 625; labor &c. 686; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course &c.
- (conduct) 692.
- act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger,
- stretch forth one's hand; take in hand &c. (undertake) 676; put oneself in
- motion; put in practice; carry into execution &c. (complete) 729; act upon.
- be an actor &c. 690; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in,
- perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the
- pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand,
- lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with &c. (meddle)
- 682.
- be in action; come into operation &c. (power at work) 170.
- Adj. doing &c. v.; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in
- operation &c. 170.
- Adv. in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in
- flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.
- Phr. "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than
- words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n"
- [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac;
- fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better
- than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but
- action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest
- pas respirer c'est agir; "we live in deeds not years" [Bailey].
-
-
-
- #681. Inaction. -- N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action;
- noninterference; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect &c. 460.
- inactivity &c. 683; rest &c. (repose) 687; quiescence &c. 265; want of
- occupation, inoccupation; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce
- far niente; sinecure; soft snap, soft thing.
- V. not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive &c. 683; abstain from
- doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not
- lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave
- alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it
- have its way, let well alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias;
- rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser
- aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain &c. (avoid) 623 keep oneself from doing;
- remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist &c. (relinquish) 624; stop
- &c. (cease) 142; pause &c. (be quiet) 265.
- wait, lie in wait, bide one's time, take time, tide it over.
- cool one's heels, kick one's heels; while away the time, while away
- tedious hours; pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time; talk
- against time; waste time &c. (inactive) 683.
- lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie
- fallow; keep quiet, slug; have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought.
- undo, do away with; take down, take to pieces; destroy &c. 162.
- Adj. not doing &c. v.; not done &c. v.; undone; passive; unoccupied,
- unemployed; out of employ, out of work; fallow; desaeuvre.
- Adv. re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms; with
- the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back; pour passer le
- temps.
- Int. so let it be! stop! &c. 142; hands off!
- Phr. cunctando restituit rem.
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- #682. Activity. -- N. activity; briskness, liveliness &c. adj.;
- animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy; snap, vim.
- nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness &c. adj.; velocity, &c. 274;
- alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste &c. 684;
- punctuality &c. (early) 132.
- eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement,
- earnestness, intentness; abandon; vigor &c. (physical energy) 171; devotion
- &c. (resolution) 604; exertion &c. 686.
- industry, assiduity; assiduousness &c. adj.; sedulity; laboriousness;
- drudgery &c. (labor) 686; painstaking, diligence; perseverance &c. 604a;
- indefatigation|; habits of business.
- vigilance &c. 459; wakefulness; sleeplessness, restlessness; insomnia;
- pervigilium, insomnium; racketing.
- movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget,
- fidgetiness; flurry &c. (haste) 684.
- officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition,
- intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue.
- press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire,
- great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action.
- housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee,
- enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank;
- hummer, hustler, live man [U.S.], rustler * [U. S.].
- V. be active &c. adj.; busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's
- stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about
- one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a
- fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's
- way; make progress &c. 282; toll &c. (labor) 686; plod, persist &c.
- (persevere) 604a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.
- look sharp; have all one's eyes about one &c. (vigilance) 459; rise,
- arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march,
- kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity &c. 134 lose no time,
- not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to
- grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash
- off; make haste &c. 684; do one's best take pains &c. (exert oneself)
- 686; do wonders, work wonders.
- have many irons in the fire, have one's hands full, have much on one's
- hands; have other things to do, have other fish to fry; be busy; not have a
- moment to spare, not have a moment that one can call one's own.
- have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing,
- run riot.
- outdo; overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark; make a toil of a
- pleasure.
- have a hand in &c. (act in) 680; take an active part, put in one's
- oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head
- about, intrigue; agitate.
- tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude;
- poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.
- Adj. active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated,
- vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, rited, stirring.
- nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed;
- featly, tripping.
- quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast
- &c. (swift) 274; quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake;
- go-ahead, live [U.S.] wide-awake &c. (intelligent) 498.
- forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute
- &c. 604.
- industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking;
- intent &c. (attention) 457; indefatigable &c. (persevering) 604a;
- unwearied; unsleeping, never tired; plodding, hardworking &c. 686;
- businesslike, workaday.
- bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering;
- busy, busy as hen with one chicken.
- working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at
- call; up and doing, up and stirring.
- busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of
- business, busy as a bee.
- meddling &c. v.; meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious,
- intrigant.
- astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on
- the alert, &c. (vigilant) 459.
- Adv. actively &c. adj.; with life and spirit, with might and main &c.
- 686,with haste &c. 684, with wings; full tilt, in mediis rebus.
- Int. be alive, look alive, look sharp! move on, push on! keep moving!
- go ahead! stir your stumps! age quod agis! jaldi! karo! step lively!
- Phr. carpe diem [Latin: sieze the day] &c. (opportunity) 134; nulla
- dies sine linea [Pliny]; nec mora nec requies [Vergil]; the plot thickens;
- No sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; "veni vidi vici" [Suetonius];
- catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig [German]; dictum ac
- factum [Terence] schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im
- Alter[German: hard work in youth means soft rest in age]; "the busy hum of
- men [Milton].
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- #683. Inactivity. -- N. inactivity; inaction &c. 681; inertness &c.
- 172; obstinacy &c. 606.
- lull &c. (cessation) 142; quiescence &c. 265; rust, rustiness.
- idleness, remissness &c. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence; dawdling
- &c. v. ergophobia, otiosity.
- dullness &c. adj.; languor; segnity|, segnitude|; lentor; sluggishness
- &c. (slowness) 275; procrastination &c. (delay) 133; torpor, torpidity,
- torpescence; stupor &c. (insensibility) 823; somnolence; drowsiness &c.
- adj.; nodding &c. v.; oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, bypnotism,
- lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids.
- sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus;
- Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze,
- siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology.
- dull work; pottering; relaxation &c. (loosening) 47; Castle of
- Indolence.
- [Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative &c. 174; torpedo.
- idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy,
- sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant &c. (runaway) 623: bummer [U.S],
- lounger, lazzarone, loafer; lubber, lubbard; slow coach &c. (slow.) 275;
- opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard; slumberer, dormouse, marmot;
- waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus.
- V. be inactive &c. adj.; do nothing &c. 681; move slowly &c. 275; let
- the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil,
- lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to
- sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile.
- take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate,
- swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury,
- loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose
- time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.
- idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time;
- spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle
- fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.
- sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top,
- sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze,
- drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap &c. n.; dream; snore one's best, settle to
- sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep;
- close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids;
- get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn.
- languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.
- render idle &c. adj.; sluggardize; mitigate &c. 174.
- Adj. inactive; motionless &c. 265; unoccupied &c. (doing nothing) 681
- unbusied.
- indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid,
- sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpisb; exanimate,
- soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.
- dilatory, laggard; lagging &c. v.; slow &c. 275; rusty, flagging;
- lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering &c. v.;shilly-shally &c.
- (irresolute) 605.
- sleeping, &c. v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a
- sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in
- the lap of Morpheus.
- sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic,
- lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with
- sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous;
- hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.
- sedative &c. 174.
- Adv. inactively &c. adj.; at leisure &c. 685.
- Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws; "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of
- ease" [Dryden]; " better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay"
- [Tennyson]; "idly busy rolls their world away [Goldsmith]; "the mystery of
- folded sleep" [Tennyson]; "the timely dew of sleep" [Milton]; "thou
- driftest gently down the tides of sleep" [Longfellow]; "tired Nature's
- sweet restorer, balmy sleep" [Young].
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- #684. Haste. -- N. haste, urgency,; despatch, dispatch; acceleration,
- spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity &c. 274; precipitancy,
- precipitation, precipitiousness &c. adj.; impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry,
- drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.
- V. haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash &c. n.; hurry on, dash on,
- whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along,
- bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge
- headlong; dash off; rush &c. (violence) 173; express.
- bestir oneself &c. (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment,
- lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make
- the best of one's way.
- be precipitate &c. adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry &c. n.;
- have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work
- against time.
- quicken &c. 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge,
- whip; railroad.
- Adj. hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate,
- headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy;
- pushing.
- in haste, in a hurry &c. n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless,
- pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.
- Adv. with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste &c.
- adj.; apace &c. (swiftly) 274; amain; all at once &c. (instantaneously)
- 113; at short notice &c., immediately &c. (early) 132; posthaste; by cable,
- by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.
- hastily, precipitately &c. adj.; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-
- bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head
- and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu.
- by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.
- Phr. sauve qui peut,, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no
- sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; a word and a blow; maggire fretta
- minore atto; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German] [Goethe's motto]; "stand not
- upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you
- dragons of the night" [Cymbelinel.
-
- #685. Leisure. -- N. leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours,
- spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands;
- holiday &c. (rest) 687; otium cum dignitate [Cic.], ease.
- V. have leisure &c. n.; take one's time, take one's leisure, take
- one's ease; repose &c. 687; move slowly &c. 275; while away the time &c.
- (inaction) 681; be master of one's time, be an idle man.
- Adj. leisure, leisureIy; slow &c. 275; deliberate, quiet, calm,
- undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at a loose end.
- Phr. time hanging heavy on one's hands; eile mit Weile.
-
- #686. Exertion. -- N. exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress,
- throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work, stitch of
- work.
- "a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together"; dead lift; heft;
- gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble;
- uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.
- labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink,
- drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; operoseness, operosity.
- trouble, pains, duty; resolution &c. 604; energy &c. (physical) 171.
- V. exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use
- exertion.
- labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened
- chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the
- oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar
- bestir oneself (be active) 682; take trouble, trouble oneself.
- work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm;
- fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel &c.
- (resolution) 604; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a
- galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and
- night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work
- double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to &c.
- (persevere) 604a; work one's way, fight one's way,; lay about one, hammer
- at.
- take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; do
- the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in
- one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's
- utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card;
- put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole
- soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no
- efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water &c.
- (resolution) 604; move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.
- Adj. laboring &c. v.
- laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome,
- wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric.
- hardworking, painstaking; strenuous, energetic.
- hard at work, on the stretch.
- Adv. laboriously &c. adj.; lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and
- main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with
- much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis,
- manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs,
- heart and soul; through thick and thin &c. (perseverance) 604a.
- by the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.
- Phr. aide-toi le ciel t'aidera;" and still be doing, never done"
- [Butler]; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due
- volie;" it is better to wear out than to rust out" [Bp. Hornel; labor omnia
- vincit [Vergil] "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven"
- [Carlyle]; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit; manu forti;
- ora et labora.
-
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- #687. Repose. -- N. repose, rest, silken repose; sleep &c. 683.
- relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause &c. (cessation) 142;
- respite.
- day of rest, dies non, Sabbath, Lord's day, holiday, red-letter day,
- vacation, recess.
- V. repose; rest, rest and be thankful; take a rest, take one's ease.
- relax, unbend, slacken; take breath &c. (refresh) 689; rest upon one's
- oars; pause &c. (cease) 142; stay one's hand.
- lie down; recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair;
- go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep &c. 683.
- take a holiday, shut up shop; lie fallow &c. (inaction) 681.
- Adj. reposing &c. v.; unstrained.
- Adv. at rest.
- Phr."the best of men have ever loved repose" [Thompson]; "to repair
- our nature with comforting repose" [Henry VIII].
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- #688. Fatigue. -- N. fatigue; weariness &c. 841; yawning, drowsiness
- &c. 683; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation|, exhaustion; sweat; dyspncea.
- anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration,
- swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy; goneness.
- V. be fatigued &c. adj.; yawn &c. (get sleepy) 683; droop, sink, flag;
- lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint,
- succumb.
- fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear
- out, prostrate.
- tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax,
- overstrain.
- Adj. fatigued &c. v.; weary &c. 841; drowsy &c. 683; drooping &c. v.;
- haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated|, weatherbeaten; faint;
- done up, used up, knocked up; bushed * [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent;
- overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.
- worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.
- breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind;
- blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose; broken winded, short-
- winded; dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic.
- ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off
- one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat.
- fatiguing &c v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.
-
- #689. Refreshment. -- N. bracing &c. v.; recovery of strength &c. 159;
- restoration, revival &c. 660; repair, refection, refocillation|,
- refreshment, regalement, bait; relief &c. 834.
- V. brace &c. (strengthen) 159; reinvigorate; air, freshen up,
- refresh, recruit; repair &c. (restore) 660; fan, refocillate|; refresh the
- inner man.
- breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; draw breath, take breath, gather
- breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better,
- raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew
- one's strength &c. 159; perk up.
- come to oneself &c. (revive) 660; feel like a giant refreshed.
- Adj. refreshing &c v.; recuperative &c. 660.
- refreshed &c. v.; untired, unwearied.
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- #690. Agent.-- N. doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator,
- operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager.
- bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of
- all work, factotum.
- workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative;
- working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water,
- laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere
- tool &c. 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout.
- maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder,
- mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer;
- blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.
- machinist, mechanician, engineer.
- sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor,
- cordwainer.
- minister &c. (instrument) 631; servant &c. 746; representative &c.
- (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759.
- coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis
- personae; personnel.
- Phr. quorum pars magna fui [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae.
-
- #691. Workshop. -- N. workshop, workhouse; manufactory, mill,
- factory; cabinet, studio; bureau, atelier.
- hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; , mint,
- forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory; beehive, bindery,
- forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry foundery; furnace;
- vineyard.
- crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix.
-
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-
- #692. Conduct. -- N. conduct; behavior; deportment, comportment;
- carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance.
- dealing, transaction &c. (action) 680; business &c. 625.
- tactics, game, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship;
- strategy, strategics; plan &c. 626.
- management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage;
- regime; economy, economics; political economy; government &c. (direction)
- 693.
- execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course,
- walk, race, record.
- course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of
- proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi;
- method &c., path &c. 627.
- V. transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge;
- carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect; work out; go
- through, get through; enact; put into practice; officiate &c. 625.
- bear oneself, behave onself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry
- onself, conduct onself, acquit oneself.
- run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course;
- steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards,
- shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's own boat.
- conduct; manage &c. (direct) 693.
- deal with, have to do with; treat, handle a case; take steps, take
- measures.
- Adj. conducting &c. v. strategical, businesslike, practical,
- executive.
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- #693. Direction. -- N. direction; management, managery; government,
- gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance; bossism [U.S.];
- legislature; steerage, pilotage; reins, reins of government; helm, rudder,
- needle, compass; guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star; cynosure.
- supervision, superintendence; surveillance, oversight; eye of the
- master; control, charge; board of control &c. (council) 696; command &c.
- (authority) 737.
- premiership, senatorship; director &c. 694; chair, portfolio.
- statesmanship; statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft.
- ministry, ministration; administration; stewardship, proctorship;
- agency.
- V. direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work
- for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on;
- regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle
- take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle the reins, hold
- the reins, take the reins; drive, tool.
- superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after,
- see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate; matronize; have the care of,
- have the charge of; have charge of, take the direction; pull the strings,
- pull the wires; rule &c. (command) 737; have the direction, hold office,
- hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy
- the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.
- Adj. directing &c. v.; hegemonic.
- Adv. at the helm, at the head of.
-
- #694. Director. -- N. director, manager, governor, rector,
- comptroller.
- superintendent, supervisor.
- intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector,
- visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master
- &c. 745; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman,
- precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader,
- flugelman, linkboy.
- guiding star &c. (guidance) 693; adviser &c. 695; guide &c.
- (information) 527; pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate; wire-puller.
- driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion,
- vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster; whipper in.
- head, head man, head center; principal, president, speaker; chair,
- chairman; captain &c. (master) 745; superior; mayor &c. (civil authority)
- 745; vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch.
- officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat; man
- in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority &c. 745.
- statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist,
- statemonger; Minos, Draco; arbiter &c. (judge) 967; boss [U.S.], political
- dictator.
- board &c. (council) 696.
- secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar &c. (deputy) 759;
- steward, factor; agent &c. 758; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of
- works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd,
- croupier; proctor, procurator.
- Adv. ex officio.
-
- #695. Advice. -- N. advice, counsel, adhortation|; word to the wise;
- suggestion, submonition|, recommendation, advocacy; advisemement.
- exhortation &c. (persuasion) 615; expostulation &c. (dissuasion) 616;
- admonition &c. (warning) 668; guidance &c. (direction) 693.
- instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation; Governor's message,
- President's message; King's message, Queen's speech; message, speech from
- the throne.
- adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus
- Apollo, senator; teacher &c. 540.
- guide, manual, chart &c. (information) 527.
- physician, leech|!, archiater.
- arbiter &c. (judge) 967.
- reference, referment; consultation, conference, pourparler.
- V. advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice;
- suggest, prompt, submonish, recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort &c.
- (persuade) 615.
- enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon &c. (request) 765;
- dictate.
- expostulate &c. (dissuade) 616; admonish &c. (warn) 668.
- advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold
- a council, deliberate, be closeted with.
- confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be
- advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.
- Adj. recommendatory; hortative &c. (persuasive) 615; dehortatory &c.
- (dissuasive) 616; admonitory &c. (warning) 668.
- Int. go to!
- Phr. "give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; "I pray
- thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "my guide, philosopher,
- and friend" [Pope]; "'twas good advice and meant, my son be good" [Crabbe];
- verbum sat sapienti; vive memor leti; "we, ask advice but we mean
- approbation" [Colton].
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- #696. Council. -- N. council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court,
- chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.
- senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory,
- reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud,
- sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives;
- legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan,
- caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal &c. (tribunal) 966;
- board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.
- audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber.
- cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress,
- convention, diet, states-general.
- assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting,
- seance, conference, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum;
- council fire [N.Am.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.].
- senator; member, member of parliament, M.P.; councilor,
- representative of the people; assemblyman, congressman.
- Adj. senatorial, curule; congressional, parliamentary.
-
- #697. Precept. -- N. precept, direction, instruction, charge;
- prescript, prescription; recipe, receipt; golden rule; maxim &c. 496.
- rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris, lex scripta, act, statute,
- rubric, stage direction, regulation; form, formula, formulary;
- technicality; canon law; norm.
- order &c. (command) 741.
-
- #698. Skill. - N. skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity,
- dexterousness; adroitness, expertness &c. adj.; proficiency, competence,
- craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership,
- excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand &c.
- (deception) 545.
- seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship; rope-dancing.
- accomplishment, acquirement, attainment; art, science; technicality,
- technology; practical knowledge, technical knowledge.
- knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire; tact; mother wit
- &c. (sagacity) 498; discretion &c. *(caution) 864; finesse; craftiness &c.
- (cunning) 702; management &c. (conduct) 692; self-help.
- cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents,
- faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence &c. 498;
- sharpness, readiness &c. (activity) 682; invention &c. 515; aptness,
- aptitude; turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa
- felicitas, qualification, habilitation.
- proficient &c. 700.
- masterpiece, coup de maitre, chef d'euvre, tour de force; good stroke
- &c. (plan) 626.
- V. be skillful &c. adj.; excel in, be master of; have a turn for &c.
- n.
- know what's what, know a hawk from a handsaw, know what one is about,
- know on which side one's bread is buttered, know what's o'clock; have cut
- one's eye teeth, have cut one's wisdom teeth.
- see one's way, see where the wind lies, see which way the wind blows;
- have all one's wits about one, have one's hand in; savoir vivre; scire quid
- valeant humeri quid ferre recusent.
- look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth;
- live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near
- the wind; stoop to conquer &c. (cunning) 702; play one's cards well, play
- one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the
- right horse.
- take advantage of, make the most of; profit by &e. (use) 677; make a
- hit &c. (succeed) 731; make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun
- shines &c. (occasion) 134.
- Adj. skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft,
- ready, gain; slick, smart &c. (active) 682; proficient, good at, up to, at
- home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack,
- accomplished; conversant &c. (knowing) 490.
- experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in
- practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted,
- fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished.
- clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed;
- inventive &c. 515; shrewd, sharp &c. (intelligent) 498; cunning &c. 702;
- alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.
- neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-
- footed; cut out for, fitted for.
- technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian, shipshape; workman-like,
- business-like, statesman-like.
- Adv. skillfully &c. adj.; well &c. 618; artistically; with skill,
- with consummate skill; secundum artem, suo Marte; to the best of one's
- abilities &c. (exertion) 686.
- Phr. ars celare artem; artes honorabit; celui qui veut celui-la peut;
- c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher sonhabilite; expertus metuit
- [Horace]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein Charakter in dem
- Strom der Welt; "heart to coceive the understanding to direct, or the hand
- to execute" [Junius].
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- #699. Unskillfulness. -- N. unskillfulness &c. adj.; want of skill &c.
- 698; incompetence, incompentency; inability, infelicity, indexterity,
- inexperience; disqualification, unproficiency; quackery.
- folly, stupidity &c. 499; indiscretion &c. (rashness) 863;
- thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458 (neglect) 460; sabotage.
- mismanagement, misconduct; impolicy; maladministration; misrule,
- misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance; petticoat
- government.
- absence of rule, rule of thumb; bungling &c. v.; failure &c. 732;
- screw loose: too many cooks.
- blunder &c. (mistake) 495; etourderie gaucherie, act of folly,
- balourdise; botch, botchery; bad job, sad work.
- sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild-goose
- chase.
- bungler &c. 701; fool &c. 501.
- V. be unskillful &c. adj.; not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder,
- bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble &c.
- 275; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of;
- overshoot the mark.
- play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect,
- misapply, missend.
- stultify oneself, make a fool of oneself, commit oneself; act
- foolishly; play the fool; put oneself out of court; lose one's head, lose
- one's cunning.
- begin at the wrong end; do things by halves &c. (not complete) 730;
- make two bites of a cherry; play at cross purposes; strain at a gnat and
- swallow a camel &c. (caprice) 608; put the cart before the horse; lock the
- stable door when the horse is stolen &c. (too late) 135.
- not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on
- which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with
- one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the'goose
- which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own
- throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat
- one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring
- the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent)
- 863, have too many irons in the fire.
- mistake &c. 495; take the shadow for the substance &c. (credulity)
- 486; bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill
- a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get
- the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on
- the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old
- bottles.
- cut blocks with a razor; hold a farthing candle to the sun &c.
- (useless) 645; fight with a shadow, grasp at a shadow; catch at straws,
- lean on a broken reed, reckon without one's host, pursue a wild goose
- chase; go on a fool's goose chase, sleeveless errand; go further and fare
- worse; lose one's way, miss one's way; fail &c. 732.
- Adj. unskillful &c. 69S; inexpert; bungling &c.v.; awkward, clumsy,
- unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly,
- slatternly; gawky.
- adrift, at fault.
- inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy &c.
- (inattentive) 458; inconsiderate &c. (neglectful) 460; stupid &c. 499;
- inactive &c. 683; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified;
- unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.
- unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c. 537, uninitiated, unconversant &c.
- (ignorant) 491; shiftless; unstatesmanlike.
- unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-
- judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted,
- foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish &c.
- (inconsistent) 608.
- Phr. one's fingers being all thumbs; the right hand forgets its
- cunning; il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau; incidit in Scyllam qui vult
- vitare Charybdim; out of the frying pan into the fire; non omnia possumus
- omnes [Vergil].
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- #700. Proficient. -- N. proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster;
- connoisseur &c. (scholar) 492; master, master hand; prima donna, first
- fiddle, chef de cuisine, top sawyer; protagonist;, past master; mahatma.
- picked man; medallist, prizeman.
- veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand;
- man of business, man of the world.
- nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye,
- experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer,
- funambulist, acrobat; cunning man; conjuror &c. (deceiver) 548; wizard &c.
- 994.
- genius; mastermind, master head, master spirit.
- cunning blade, sharp blade, sharp fellow; jobber; cracksman &c.
- (thief) 792; politician, tactician, strategist.
- pantologist, admirable Crichton, Jack of all trades; prodigy of
- learning.
-
- #701. Bungler. -- N. bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot,
- fumbler, lubber, duffer, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot;
- butterfingers.
- no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab; clod, yokel,
- awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot.
- land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine;
- fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack
- &c. (deceiver) 548; lord of misrule.
- sloven, slattern, trapes.
- Phr. il n'a pas invente' la oudre; he will never set the Thames on
- fire; acierta errando; aliquis in omnibus nullus in singulis.
-
- #702. Cunning. -- N. cunning, craft; cunningness, craftiness &c. adj.;
- subtlety, artificiality; maneuvering &c. v.; temporization; circumvention.
- chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery; concealment &c.
- 528; guile, doubling, duplicity &c. (falsehood) 544; foul play.
- diplomacy, politics; Machiavelism; jobbery, backstairs influence.
- art, artifice; device, machination; plot &c. (plan) 626; maneuver,
- stratagem, dodge, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery &c.(deception) 545;
- ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go
- by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c (untruth) 546; juggle, tour de force;
- tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap &c. 545.
- Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee;
- intriguer, intrigant; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.], keener [U.S.],
- repeater [U.S. politics].
- V. be cunning &c. adj.; have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive &c (plan)
- 626; live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double,
- temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter, circumvent, steal a
- march upon; overreach &c. 545; throw off one's guard; surprise &c. 508;
- snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge;
- play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces;
- flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind.
- Adj. cunning, crafty, artful; skillful &c. 698; subtle, feline,
- vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound;
- designing, contriving; intriguing &c.v.; strategic, diplomatic, politic,
- Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim,
- insidious, stealthy; underhand &c (hidden) 528; subdolous; deceitful &c.
- 545; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a needle|!;
- canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be
- caught with chaff.
- Adv. cunningly &c. adj.; slily, on the sly, by a side wind.
- Phr. diamond cut diamond; a' bis ou a blanc; fin contre fin;
- "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet].
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- #703. Artlessness. -- N. artlessness &c. adj; nature, simplicity;
- innocence &c. 946; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity;
- singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty &c. 939; plain
- speaking; epanchement.
- rough diamond, matter of fact man; le palais de verite; enfant
- terrible.
- V. be artless &c. adj; look one in the face; wear one's heart upon his
- sleeves for daws to peck at; think aloud; speak out, speak one's mind; be
- free with one, call a spade a spade.
- Adj. artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain,
- inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive;
- sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless;
- unsuspicious, honest &c. 939; innocent &c. 946; Arcadian; undesigning,
- straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded;
- frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.
- free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken; blunt, downright, direct, matter
- of fact, unpoetical; unflattering.
- Adv. in plain words, in plain English; without mincing the matter; not
- to mince the matter &c. (affirmation) 535.
- Phr. Davus sum non (Edipus [Terrence]; liberavi animam meam; "as frank
- as rain on cherry blossoms" [E.B. Browning].
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-
- Section IV. ANTAGONISM
-
- 1. Conditional Antagonism
-
-
- #704. Difficulty. -- N. difficulty; hardness &c. adj.;
- impracticability &c. (impossibility) 471; tough work, hard work, uphill
- work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task; task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean
- labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift.
- dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity &c. (uncertainty) 475;
- intricacy; entanglement &c. 59; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish
- card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze;
- coil &c. (convolution) 248; crooked path; involvement.
- nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed
- question, vexata quaestio, poser; puzzle &c. (riddle) 533; paradox; hard
- nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick,
- crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches.
- nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt;
- critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble.
- scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of
- troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio,
- mess, ado; false position.
- set fast, stand; deadlock, dead set.
- fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac; hitch; stumblng block &c
- (hindrance) 706.
- V. be difficult &c. adj.; run one hard, go against the grain, try
- one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end;
- go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex &c. (uncertain) 475; bother,
- nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible &c. 471; be in the way
- of &c (hinder) 706.
- meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into
- difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend
- with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage;
- be in difficulty &c. adj.
- fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream,
- scud under bare poles.
- Have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to
- the pinch; bear the brunt.
- grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among
- eggs.
- get into a scrape &c. n.; bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be
- put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn
- &c. (uncertain) 475; perdre son Latin; stick at, stick in the mud, stick
- fast; come to a stand, come to a deadlock; hold the wolf by the ears.
- render difficult &c. adj.; enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel,
- entangle; put a spoke in the wheel &c. (hinder) 706; lead a pretty dance.
- Adj. difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsom, irksome;
- operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said
- than done; more easily said than done.
- difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed;
- not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water.
- awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn &c. (obstinate)
- 606; perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty;
- invious|; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine &c (convoluted) 248; intricate,
- complicated &c (tangled) 59; impracticable &c. (impossible) 471; not
- feasible &c. 470; desperate &c. (hopeless) 859.
- embarrassing, perplexing &c. (uncertain) 475; delicate, ticklish,
- critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by
- difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.
- under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the
- suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape &c.n., in
- deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between
- Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers,
- surrounded by qucksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.
- reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched,
- put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's
- shifts; puzzled, at a loss, &c (uncertain) 475; at the end of one's tether,
- at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplussed,
- stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois,
- driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity,
- driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of
- one's depth; thrown out.
- accomplished with difficulty; hard-fought, hard-earned.
- Adv. with difficulty, with much ado; hardly &c. adj.; uphill; against
- the stream, against the grain; d rebours; invita Minerva; in the teeth of;
- at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds.
- Phr. "ay there's the rub" [Hamlet]; hic labor hoc opus [Vergil];
- things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti; ad astra per aspera;
- acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.
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- #705. Facility. -- N. facility, ease; easiness &c. adj.; capability;
- feasibility &c. (practicabiity) 470; flexibility, pliancy &c. 324;
- smoothness &c. 255.
- plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's play,
- holiday task; cinch [U.S.].
- smooth water, fair wind; smooth royal road; clear coast, clear stage;
- tabula rasa; full play &c. (freedom) 748.
- disencumbrance, disentanglement; deoppilation|!; permission &c. 760.
- V. be easy &c. adj.; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play &c.
- n.; go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.
- flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go
- with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide; see one's way;
- have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands; walk over the
- course, win at a canter; make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of.
- be at home in &c. (skillful) 698.
- render easy &c. adj.; facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten,
- lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle,
- disengage; deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot, cut the
- knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate|!;
- humor &c. (aid) 707; lubricate &c. 332; relieve &c. 834.
- leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open;
- give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the
- door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the
- ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge
- over; permit &c. 760.
- Adj. easy, facile; feasible &c (practicable) 470; easily managed,
- easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the
- million, open to.
- manageable, wieldy; towardly, tractable; submissive; yielding,
- ductile; suant; pliant &c. (soft) 324; glib, slippery; smooth &c. 255; on
- friction wheels, on velvet.
- unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered,
- disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled;
- unrestrained &c. (free) 748; at ease, light.
- at home; quite at home; in one's element, in smooth water.
- Adv. easily &c. adj.; readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms,
- single-handed.
- Phr. touch and go.
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- #706. Hindrance. -- N. prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage;
- embolus; interruption, interception, interclusion|; hindrance, impedition|;
- retardment, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation|!; coarctation,
- stricture, restriction; restraint &c. 751; inhibition &c. 761; blockade
- &c. (closure) 261.
- interference, interposition; obtrusion; discouragement,
- discountenance.
- impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag; check, hitch,
- contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.
- bar, stile, barrier;
- turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis.
- beaver dam; trocha; barricade &c. (defense) 717; wall, dead wall,
- breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper &c. 263; boom, dam,
- weir, burrock.
- drawback, objection; stumbling-block, stumbling-stone; lion in the
- path, snag; snags and sawyers.
- encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain,
- drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, propylactic; load, burden, fardel,
- onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack;
- nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.
- difficulty &c. 704; insuperable &c. 471; obstacle; estoppel [law]; ill
- wind; head wind &c. (opposition) 708; trammel, tether &c. (means of
- restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.
- damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy, interloper.
- trail of a red herring; opponent &c. 710.
- V. hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite, embarrass.
- keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert|; turn aside,
- draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let;
- counteract, countercheck; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop; inhibit &c.
- 761; shackle &c. (restrain) 751; restrict.
- obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off;
- belay, barricade; block the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up &c. (close)
- 261; put on the brake &c. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke
- in the wheel; put a stop to &c. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt,
- intercept; oppose &c. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude|.
- interpose, interfere, intermeddle &c. 682.
- cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber;
- handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel,
- tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose;
- hustle, corner, drive into a corner.
- run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.
- thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze [U.S.];
- baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat &c. 731; spike guns &c. (render
- useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple &c. (injure) 659; put
- an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten &c (dissuade) 616; discountenance,
- throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket
- on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails,
- undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like
- a millstone round one's neck.
- Adj. hindering &c. v.; obstructive, obstruent; impeditive, impedient;
- intercipient|; prophylactic &c. (remedial) 662; impedimentary.
- in the way of, unfavorable; onerous, burdensome; cumbrous, cumbersome;
- obtrusive.
- hindered &c v.; windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden; hard pressed.
- unassisted &c. (see assist &c. 707); singlehanded, alone; deserted &c.
- 624.
- Phr. occurrrenit nubes.
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- #707. Aid. -- N. aid, aidance; assistance, help, opitulation|, succor;
- support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy &c.
- (cooperation) 709.
- patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy.
- sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment;
- eutrophy; manna in the wilderness; food &c. 298; means &c. 632.
- ministry, ministration; subministration; accommodation.
- relief, rescue; help at a dead lift; supernatural aid; deus ex
- machina.
- supplies, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits; support &c.
- (physical) 215; adjunct, ally &c. (helper) 711.
- V. aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid &c. n.
- of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid,
- supply aid &c. n.; give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping
- hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping
- hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand,
- take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.
- relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing, set on one's legs; bear through,
- pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reenforce, recruit; set
- forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an
- impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance
- expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.
- support, sustain, uphold, prop, hold up, bolster.
- cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse;
- manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the
- flame.
- serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister
- to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of &c. 459; entertain;
- smooth the bed of death.
- oblige, accommodate, consult the wishes of; humor, cheer, encourage.
- second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make
- interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of,
- espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits,
- press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance,
- countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile
- upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners
- of; side with &c. (cooperate) 709.
- be of use to; subserve &c. (instrument) 631; benefit &c. 648; render a
- service &c. (utility) 644; conduce &c. (tend) 176.
- Adj. aiding &c. v.; auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant &c. 709;
- subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary.
- at one's beck; friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-
- disposed; neighborly; obliging &c. (benevolent) 906.
- Adv. with the aid, by the aid &c. of; on behalf of, in behalf of; in
- aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of;
- on account of; for the sake of, on the part of; non obstante.
- Int. help! save us! to the rescue!
- Phr. alterum alterius auxilio eget [Sallust]; "God befriend us as our
- cause is just" [Henry IV].
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- #708. Opposition. -- N.. opposition, antagonism; oppugnancy,
- oppugnation; impugnation|!; contrariety; contravention; counteraction &c.
- 179; counterplot.
- cross fire, undercurrent, head wind.
- clashing, collision, conflict.
- competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race.
- absence of aid &c. 708; resistance &c. 719; restraint &c. 751;
- hindrance &c. 706.
- V. oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand &c. (resist) 719;
- control &c. (restrain) 751; hinder &c. 706; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the
- face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set
- against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead
- set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against,
- vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon;
- set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.
- be at cross purposes; play at cross purposes; counterwork,
- countermine; thwart, overthwart.
- stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the
- current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head
- against; grapple with; kick against the pricks &c. (resist) 719; contend
- &c. 720; do battle &c. (warfare) 722 -with, do battle against.
- contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against,
- militate against; come in conflict with.
- emulate &c. (compete) 720; rival, spoil one's trade.
- Adj. opposing, opposed &c.v.; adverse, antagonistic; contrary &c. 14;
- at variance &c. 24; at issue, at war with.
- unfavorable, unfriendly; hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious.
- in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers
- drawn; up in arms; resistant &c. 719.
- copetitive, emulous.
- Adv. against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes.
- against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against
- the wind, against the tide; with a headwind; with the wind ahead, with the
- wind in one's teeth.
- in spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the
- face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of
- one's teeth.
- though &c. 30; even; quand meme; per contra.
- Phr. nitor in adversum.
-
- #709. Cooperation. -- N. cooperation; coadjuvancy, coadjutancy;
- coagency, coefficiency; concert, concurrence, complicity, participation;
- union &c. 43; combination &c. 48; collusion.
- association, alliance, colleagueship,
- joint stock, copartnership; cartel; confederation &c. (party) 712;
- coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together;
- logrolling, freemasonry.
- unanimity &c. (assent) 488; esprit de corps, party spirit; clanship,
- partisanship; concord &c 714; synergy.
- V. cooperate, concur; conduce &c. 178; combine, unite one;s efforts;
- keep together, draw together, pull together, club together, hand together,
- hold together, league together, band together, be banded together; pool;
- stand shoulder to shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join
- forces, fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s
- heads together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one
- another, play into the hands of, hunt in couples.
- side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join
- hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite with, join with,
- mix oneself up with, take part with, cast in one's lot with; join
- partnership, enter into partnership with; rally round, follow the lead of;
- come to, pass over to, come into the views of; be in the same boat, row in
- the same boat; sail in the same boat; sail on the same tack.
- be a party to, lend oneself to; chip in; participate; have a hand in,
- have a finger in the pie; take part in, bear part in; second &c. (aid) 707;
- take the part of, play the game of; espouse a cause, espouse a quarrel.
- Adj. cooperating &c. v.; in cooperation &c.n., in league &c. (party)
- 712; coadjuvant, coadjutant; dyed in the wool; synergetic, synergistic.
- favorable &c. 707 to; unopposed &c. 708.
- Adv. as one &c. (unanimously) 488; shoulder to shoulder.
- Phr. due teste valgono piu che una sola.
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- #710. Opponent. -- N. opponent, antagonist, adversary; adverse party,
- opposition; enemy &c. 891; assailant.
- oppositionist, obstructive; brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant;
- filibuster [U.S.], obstructionist.
- malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist.
- rival, competitor.
-
- #711. Auxiliary. -- N. auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant,
- adjutant; ayudante, coaid; adjunct; help, helper, help mate, helping hand;
- midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator; coadjutor,
- coadjutrix; collaborator.
- ally; friend &c. 890, confidant, fidus Achates, pal, alter ego.
- confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory after the
- fact; particeps criminis; socius criminis.
- aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand;
- candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant &c. 746; puppet, cat's-paw,
- jackal|!.
- tool, ame damnee; satellite, adherent.
- votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor,
- advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel
- [theater, entertainment].
- friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina, guardian angel,
- tutelary genius.
-
- #712. Party. -- N. party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set,
- crew, band. horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, &c. 166; team; tong.
- community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity;
- familistere, familistery; brotherhood, sisterhood.
- knot, gang, clique, ring, circle; coterie, club, casino|!; machine;
- Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].
- corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company;
- copartnership, partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock
- company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.
- society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union;
- league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination;
- Turnverein; league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and
- defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy; junto, cabal,
- camarilla, camorra, brigue|; freemasonry; party spirit &c. (cooperation)
- 709.
- Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals,
- Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan; Liberals, Luddites,
- Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.
- staff; dramatis personae.
- V. unite, join; club together &c. (cooperate) 709; cement a party,
- form a party &c. n.; associate &c. (assemble) 72; enleague, federalize, go
- cahoots .
- Adj. in league, in partnership, in alliance &c. n.
- bonded together, banded together, linked &c. (joined) 43- together;
- embattled; confederated, federative, joint.
- Adv. hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse,in the
- same boat.
-
- #713. Discord. -- N. disagreement &c. 24; discord, disaccord,
- dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling &c. v.; screw
- loose.
- variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes,
- odds, brouillerie; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the
- camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism &c. (dissent)
- 489; feud, faction.
- quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney *,
- demel, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling &c. v.; jangle,
- brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.
- polemics; litigation; strife &c. (contention) 720; warfare &c. 722;
- outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.
- broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation|; embroilment,
- embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work,
- scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance &c (disorder) 59;
- commotion &c. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook Fair.
- subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point;
- bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli; question
- at issue &c. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata quaestio,
- brand of discord.
- troublous times; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness &c. adj.; enmity
- &c. 889; hate &c. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant &c. 710; strange
- bedfellows.
- V. be discordant &c. adj.; disagree, come amiss &c. 24; clash, jar,
- jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand
- one another; live liek cat and dog; differ; dissent &c. 489; have a bone to
- pick, have a crow to pluck with.
- fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert &c. (deny) 536;
- squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar &c. (contend) 720;
- have words &c. n. with; fall foul of.
- split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war,
- try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel
- on; sow dissension, stir up dissension &c. n.; embroil, entangle, disunite,
- widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit
- against.
- get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row,
- kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.
- Adj. discordant; disagreeing &c. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms,
- dissentient &c. 489; unreconciled, unpacified.
- quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic,
- disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
- at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at
- cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms,
- together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.
- torn, disunited.
- Phr. quot homines tot sententiae [Terence]; no love lost between them,
- non nostrum tantas componere lites [Vergil]; Mars gravior sub pace latet
- [Claudius].
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- #714. Concord. -- N. concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue;
- agreement &c. 23; sympathy &c. (love) 897; response; union, unison, unity;
- bonds of harmony; peace &c. 721; unanimity &c. (assent) 488; league &c.
- 712; happy family.
- rapprochement; reunion; amity &c. (friendship) 888; alliance, entente
- cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor,
- mediator.
- V. agree &c. 23; accord, harmonize with; fraternize; be -concordant
- &c. adj.; go hand in hand; run parallel &c. (concur) 178; understand one
- another, pull together &c. (cooperate) 709; put up one's horses together,
- sing in chorus.
- side with, sympathize with, go with, chime in with, fall in with; come
- round; be pacified &c. 723; assent &c. 488; enter into the ideas of, enter
- into the feelings of; reciprocate.
- hurler avec les loups; go with the stream, swim with the stream.
- keep in good humor, render accordant, put in tune; come to an
- understanding, meet halfway; keep the peace, remain at peace.
- Adj. concordant, congenial; agreeing &c.v.; in accord &c. n.;
- harmonious, united, cemented; banded together &c. 712; allied; friendly &c.
- 888; fraternal; conciliatory; at one with; of one mind &c. (assent) 488.
- at peace, in still water; tranquil &c. (pacific) 721.
- Adv. with one voice &c. (assent) 488; in concert with, hand in hand;
- on one's side.
- Phr. commune periculum concordiam parit.
-
-
- #715. Defiance. -- N. defiance; daring &. v. ; dare; challenge,
- cartel|!; threat &c. 909; war cry, war whoop.
- V. defy, dare, beard; brave &c. (courage) 861; bid defiance to; set at
- defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance; snap the
- fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey &c. 742.
- show fight, show one's teeth, show a bold front; bluster, look big,
- stand akimbo; double the fist, shake the fist; threaten &c. 909.
- challenge, call out; throw down the gauntlet, fling down the gauntlet,
- fling down the gage, fling down the glove, throw down the glove.
- Adj. defiant; defying &c. v.;"with arms akimbo".
- Adv. in defiance of, in the teeth of; under one's very nose.
- Int. do your worst! come if you dare! come on! marry come up! hoity
- toity|!
- Phr. noli me tangere; nemo me impune lacessit.
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- #716. Attack. -- N. attack; assault, assault and battery; onset,
- onslaught, charge.
- aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak;
- estrapade, ruade; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray; run
- at, run against; dead set at.
- storm, storming; boarding, escalade; siege, investment, obsession|!,
- bombardment, cannonade.
- fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting,
- broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, feu d'enfer.
- cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust;
- coupe de bec; kick, punch &c. (impulse) 276.
- battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade; devastation &c. 162;
- eboulement.
- assailant, aggressor, invader.
- base of operations, point of attack; echelon.
- V. attack, assault, assail; invade; set upon, fall upon; charge,
- impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.
- assume the offensive, take the offensive; be the aggressor, become the
- aggressor; strike the first blow, throw the first stone at; lift a hand
- against, draw the sword against; take up the cudgels; advance against,
- march against; march upon, harry; come on, show fight.
- strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one
- a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at,
- have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy
- at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out
- agianst; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a
- set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.
- close with, come to close quarters;
- bring to bay.
- ride full tilt against; attack tooth and nail.
- let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at,
- hawk at, have at, let out at; make a dash, make a rush at; strike home;
- drive one hard; press one hard; be hard upon, run down, strike at the root
- of.
- lay about one, run amuck.
- draw a bead on [U.S.].
- fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at; shoot at, pop at, level at, let
- off a gun at; open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, ppour a broadside into;
- fire a volley, fire red-hot shot; spring a mine.
- throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate, pelt; hurl at, hurl
- against, hurl at the head of; rock [U.S.]
- beset, besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches,
- plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.
- cut and thrust, bayonet, butt; kick, strike &c. (impulse) 276; whipe
- &c. (punish) 972.
- Adj. attacking &c.v.; aggressive, offensive, obsidional.
- up in arms.
- Adv. on the offensive.
- Int. "up and at them!"
- Phr. "the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony,
- the groan of death" [Southey]; "their fatal hands no second stroke intend'
- [Paradise Lost]; "thirst for glory quells the love of life" [Addison].
-
- #717. Defense -- N. defense, protection, guard, ward; shielding &c.v.;
- propugnation|, preservation &c. 670; guardianship.
- self-defense, self-preservation; resistance &c. 719.
- safeguard &c. (safety) 664; balistraria; screen &c. (shelter) 666;
- (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment; bulwark, fosse, moat,
- ditch, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment,
- mound, mole, bank; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall,
- contravallation; paling &c. (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade,
- stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de
- frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement,
- rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.
- buttress, abutment; shore &c. (support) 215.
- breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin;
- vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt;
- fort-elage, fort-alice; lines.
- loophole, machicolation; sally port.
- hold, stronghold, fastness; asylum &c. (refuge) 666; keep, donjon,
- fortress, citadel, capitol, castle; tower of strength, tower of strength;
- fort, barracoon, pah, sconce, martello tower, peelhouse, blockhouse, rath;
- wooden walls.
- buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble,
- carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate,
- cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail,
- brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume,
- morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece,
- casque, pickethaube, vambrace, shako &c. (dress) 225.
- bearskin; panoply; truncheon &c. (weapon) 727.
- garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian &c. (safety)
- 664; bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner.
- V. defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend
- round &c. (circumscribe) 229; fence, intrench; guard &c. (keep safe) 664;
- guard against; take care of &c. (vigilance) 459; bear harmless; fend off,
- keep off, ward off, beat off; hinder &c. 706.
- parry, repel, propugn, put to flight; give a warm reception to
- [ironical]; hold at bay, keep at bay, keep arm's length.
- stand on the defensive, act on the defensive; show fight; maintain
- one;s ground, stand one's ground; stand by; hold one's own; bear the brunt,
- stand the brunt; fall back upon, hold, stand in the gap.
- Adj. defending &c.v.; defensive; mural|!; armed, armed at all points,
- armed cap-a-pie, armed to the teeth; panoplied; ironplated, ironclad;
- loopholed, castellated, machicolated, casemated; defended &c.v.; proof
- against.
- ballproof|!, bulletproof.
- Adv. defensively; on the defense, on the defensive; in defense; at
- bay, pro aris et focis.
- Int. no surrender!
- Phr. defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit; fidei defensor.
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- #718. Retaliation. -- N. retaliation, reprisal, retort; counter-
- stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project; retribution, lex
- talionis; reciprocation &c. (reciprocity) 12.
- tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for
- an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game
- at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous.
- recrimination &c. (accusation) 938; revenge &c. 919; compensation &c.
- 30; reaction &c. (recoil) 277.
- V. retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's
- own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate &c. 148; turn the tables
- upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo &c. n., give as much as
- one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be
- quits, be even with; pay off old scores.
- serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's
- own garden, catch a Tartar.
- Adj. retaliating &c. v.; retaliatory, retaliative; talionic.
- Adv. in retaliation; en revanche.
- Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Horace]; par pari refero
- [Terence]; tu quoque; you're another; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo; a beau
- jeu beau retour; litem . . . lite resolvit [Horace].
-
- #719. Resistance. -- N. resistance, stand, front, oppugnation;
- oppugnancy; opposition &c. 708; renitence, renitency; reluctation,
- recalcitration; kicking &c. v.
- repulse, rebuff.
- insurrection &c. (disobedience) 742; strike; turn out, lock out,
- barring out; levee en masse, Jacquerie; riot &c. (disorder) 59.
- V. resist; not submit &c. 725; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand;
- stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof
- against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand
- the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold
- firm.
- breast the wave, breast the current; stem the tide, stem the torrent;
- face, confront, grapple with; show a bold gfront &c. (courage) 861; present
- a front; make a stand, take one's stand.
- kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose &c.
- 708; fly in the face of; lift the hand against &c. (attack) 716; rise up in
- arms &c. (war) 722; strike, turn out; draw up a round robin &c.
- (remonstrate) 932; revolt &c. (disobey) 742; make a riot.
- prendre le mors aux dents; take the bit between the teeth; sell one's
- life dearly, die hard, keep at bay; repel, repulse.
- Adj. resisting &c.v.; resistive, resistant; refractory &c.
- (disobedient) 742; recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms.
- repulsive, repellant.
- proof against; unconquerable &c. (strong) 159; stubborn, unconquered;
- indomitable &c. (persevering) 604a; unyielding &c. (obstinate) 606.
- Int. hands off! keep off!
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- #720. Contention. -- N. contention, strife; contest, contestation;
- struggle; belligerency; opposition &c. 708.
- controversy, polemics; debate &c. (discussion) 476; war of words,
- logomachy, litigation; paper war; high words &c. (quarrel) 713; sparring
- &c. v.
- competition, rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism|, concours,
- match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field
- day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy,
- gymkhana; boat race, torpids.
- wrestling, pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, spar, mill, set-to, round,
- bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship,
- gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo; athletics, athletic sports;
- games of skill &c. 840.
- shindy; fracas &c. (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle,
- broil, fray; affray, affrayment|; velitation|; colluctation|, luctation;
- brabble, brigue|, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting.
- free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight.
- conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision,
- affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement,
- joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [medeival times]; tournay, list; pitched
- battle.
- death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle,
- Armageddon.
- hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war.
- naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight.
- duel, duello; single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes,
- passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting,
- digladiation; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms &c. (warfare)
- 722.
- pugnacity; combativeness &c. adj.; bone of contention &c. 713.
- V. contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar,
- square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib|!, justle, tussle, tilt,
- box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight &c. (war) 722; wrangle &c.
- (quarrel) 713.
- contend &c. with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with,
- bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush &c. n. with, tilt with;
- encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose &c.
- 708; reluct.
- join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the
- scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the
- cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch
- one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms &c. (warfare) 722.
- lay about one; break the peace.
- compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie, emulate, rival;
- run a race; contend &c. for, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make
- a point of.
- Adj. contending &c. v.; together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at
- issue.
- competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose,
- unpeaceful; warlike &c. 722; quarrelsome &c. 901; pugnacious; pugilistic,
- gladiatorial; palestric, palestrical.
- Phr. a verbis ad verbera; a word and a blow; "a very pretty quarrel as
- it stands" [Sheridan]; commune periculum concordiam parit; lis litem
- generat.
-
-
- #721. Peace. -- N. peace; amity &c. (friendship) 888; harmony &c.
- (concord) 714; tranquillity &c. (quiescence) 265; truce &c. (pacification)
- 723; pipe of peace, calumet of peace.
- piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.
- pax Romana; Pax Americana.
- V. be at peace; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714.
- make peace &c. 723.
- Adj. pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled,
- halcyon; bloodless; neutral.
- Phr. the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all
- quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax bello [Nepos]; "peace hath her victories
- no less renowned than war" [Milton]; "they make a desert and they call it
- peace".
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- #722. Warfare. -- N. warfare; fighting &c.v.; hostilities; war, arms,
- the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella; bloodshed.
- appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of
- battle; ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword.
- battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition; mobilization; state of
- siege; battlefield &c. (arena) 728; warpath.
- art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation; generalship;
- soldiership; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry.
- gunpowder, shot.
- battle, tug of war &c. (contention) 720; service, campaigning, active
- service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet,
- clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of
- drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password,
- watchword; passage d-armes.
- war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort, guerre a outrance;
- open war, internecine war, civil war.
- V. arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the
- cudgels &c. 720; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the
- sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the
- tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war' [Julius Caesar];
- cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's
- banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away
- the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own
- hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle;
- flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the
- trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight;
- combat; contend &c. 720; battle with, break a lance with.
- serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign;
- wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill
- blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.
- carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good
- fight; fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to
- hand; sell one's life dearly.
- Adj. contending, contentious &c. 720; armed, armed to the teeth, armed
- cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with;
- bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field;
- embattled; battled.
- unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerant, combative, armigerous, bellicose,
- martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.
- chivalrous; strategical, internecine.
- Adv. flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth;
- at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.
- Int. vae victis! to arms! to your tents O Israel!
- Phr. the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in
- bello non licet; jus gladii; "my voice is still for war" [Addison]; "'tis
- well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it" [Robert
- E. Lee]; "my sentence is for open war" [Milton]; "pride, pomp, and
- circumstance of glorious war" [Othello]; "the cannons have their bowels
- full of wrath" [King John]; "the cannons . . .spit forth their iron
- indignation" [King John]; "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war" [Henry IV];
- silent leges inter arma [Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum.
-
- #723. Pacification. -- N. pacification, conciliation; reconciliation,
- reconcilement; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment;
- terms, compromise; amnesty, deed of release.
- peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of
- peace.
- truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities;
- breathing time; convention; modus vivendi; flag of truce, white flag,
- parlementaire, cartel|!.
- hollow truce, pax in bello; drawn battle.
- V. pacify, tranquillize, compose; allay &c. (moderate) 174; reconcile,
- propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch,
- heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.
- settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate
- differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites; come
- to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make
- matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences [U.S.].
- raise a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet,
- lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of
- peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714; be
- pacified &c.; come round.
- Adj. conciliatory; composing &c.v.; pacified &c.v.
- Phr. requiescat in pace.
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- #724. Mediation. -- N. mediation, mediatorship, mediatization;
- intervention, interposition, interference, intermeddling, intercession;
- arbitration; flag of truce &c. 723; good offices, peace offering; .
- parley, negotiation; diplomatics, diplomacy; compromise &c. 774.
- mediator, intercessor, peacemaker, makepeace, negotiator, go-between;
- diplomatist &c. (consignee) 758; moderator; propitiator; umpire.
- V. mediate, mediatize; intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene;
- step in, negotiate; meet halfway; arbitrate; magnas componere lites.
- Adj. mediatory.
-
- #725. Submission. -- N. submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience
- &c. 743.
- surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown.
- obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow,
- prostration.
- V. succumb, submit, yeild, bend, resign, defer to.
- lay down one's arms, deliver up one's arms; lower colors, haul down
- colors, strike one's flag, strike colors.
- surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms,
- retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns &c. (humility) 879; give way,
- give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgement by default; bend,
- bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle
- down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.
- eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust;
- be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself
- at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the
- other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down.
- obey &c. 743; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to;
- bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission,
- courtesy, curtsy, kowtow.
- pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin
- and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit
- with a good grace &c. (bear with) 826.
- Adj. surrendering &c. v.; submissive, resigned, crouching;
- downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresisting,
- nonresisting; pliant &c. (soft) 324; undefended.
- untenable, indefensible; humble &c. 879.
- Phr. have it your own way; it can't be helped; amen &c. (assent) 488;
- da locum melioribus; tempori parendum.
-
-
- #726. Combatant. -- N. combatant; disputant, controversialist,
- polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter,
- assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater,
- duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.
- prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator,
- athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; .
- warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent;
- campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur, redcoat, military man, Rajput.
- armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army,
- standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry,
- volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-
- nationale, garde-royale; minuteman [Am. Hist.]; auxiliary forces, reserve
- forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater;
- guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
- janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee, spahi, Cossack, Croat,
- Pandoz; irregular, franctireur, tirailleur, bash-bazouk, guerilla,
- condottiere.
- mercenary; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian.
- levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw
- levies.
- private, private soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper,
- sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, food for powder; officer &c. (commander)
- 745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; halberdier,
- lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager,
- skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowmann.
- horse and foot; horse soldier, foot soldier; cavalry, horse,
- artillery, horse artillery, infantry, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan,mounted
- rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier;
- Foot Guards, Horse Guards; gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman,
- matross; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantrym,
- rifles,chasseur, zouave; military train, coolie.
- army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing,
- detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion,
- sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad;
- piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of
- skirmishers.
- war horse, charger, destrier.
- marine, man-of-war's man &c. (sailor) 269; navy, wooden walls, naval
- forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadrong.
- man-of-war; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; destroyer; submarine;
- torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; line
- of battle ship, ship of the line; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor,
- floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat,
- bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; privateer;
- tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran.
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- #727. Arms. -- N. arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament,
- armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor &c. (defense) 717;
- armory &c. (store) 636; apparatus belli.
- ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge,
- cartouche, fireball; "villanous saltpeter" [Hen. IV]; dumdum bullet.
- explosive; gunpowder, guncotton.
- dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite; pyroxyline.
- sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand,
- whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck,
- claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger,
- dirk, banger, ponlard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet,
- sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax;
- gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan,
- yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked
- sword; cold steel.
- club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver,
- shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle
- duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.
- gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering
- train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece,
- mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel,
- pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse;
- infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun,
- Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun,
- machine gun; pompom; tenpounder.
- small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil,
- caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock,
- harquebuss, arguebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore;
- breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield
- rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry
- rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle;
- needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol;
- escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron *
- [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun.
- bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling; battering ram &c. (impulse)
- 276; gunnery; ballistics &c. (propulsion) 284.
- missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister
- shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain
- shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug,
- stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve
- rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt.
- pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow,
- reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet,
- wommerah.
- Phr. en flute; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam.
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- #728. Arena. -- N. arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater;
- walk, course; hustings; stare, boards &c. (playhouse) 599; amphitheater;
- Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course,
- corso, turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring,
- lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus
- [U.S.].
- theater of war, seat of war; battle-field, battle-ground; field of
- battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting
- place &c. (place of meeting) 74.
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- Section V. RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION
-
-
- #729. Completion. -- N. completion, accomplishment, achievement,
- fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation,
- culmination; finish, conclusion; close &c. (end) 67; terminus &c. (arrival)
- 292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result;
- final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke;
- last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone,
- keystone; missing link &c. 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done,
- fait accompli.
- elaboration; finality; completeness &c. 52.
- V. [transitive] effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass,
- consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect,
- complete; elaborate.
- do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring
- about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.
- despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work
- of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in
- practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution;
- make good; be as good as one's word.
- do thoroughly, not do by halves,go the whole hog; drive home; be in at
- the death &c. (persevere) 604a; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the
- bill [U.S.].
- finish, bring to a close &c. (end) 67; wind up, stamp, clinch, seal,
- set the seal on, put the seal; give the final touch &c.n. to; put the last,
- put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on; crown, crown all;
- cap.
- [intransitive] ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis;
- come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run
- one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach &c.
- (arrive) 292; get in the harvest.
- Adj. completing, final; concluding, conclusive; crowning &c. v.;
- exhaustive.
- done, completed &c. v.; done for, sped, wrought out; highly wrought
- &c. (preparation) 673; thorough &c. 52; ripe &c. (ready) 673.
- Adv. completely &c.(thoroughly) 52; to crown all, out of hand.
- Phr. the race is run; actum est; finis coronat opus; consummatum est;
- c'en est fait; it is all over; the game is played out, the bubble has
- burst; aussilot dit aussilot fait; aut non tentaris aut perfice [Ovid).
-
- #730. Noncompletion. -- N. noncompletion, nonfulfillment; shortcoming
- &c. 304; incompleteness &c. 53; drawn battle, drawn game; work of Penelope.
- nonperformance, inexecution; neglect &c. 460.
- V. not complete &c. 729; leave unfinished &c. adj., leave undone;
- neglect &c. 460; let alone, let slip; lose sight of.
- fall short of &c. 304; do things by halves, scotch the snake not lull
- it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse &c. 304.
- Adj. not completed &c. v.; incomplete &c. 53; uncompleted, unfinished,
- unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted; sketchy, addle.
- in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding; on one's hands; on the
- anvil.
- Adv. re infecta.
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- #731. Success. -- N. success, successfulness; speed; advance &c.
- (progress) 282.
- trump card; hit, stroke; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good
- stroke; bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike [U.S.]; coup de maitre,
- checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit &c. (acquisition) 775.
- continued success; good fortune &c. (prosperity) 734; time well spent.
- advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery;
- expugnation|, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation &c. (subjection) 749.
- triumph &c. (exultation) 884; proficiency &c. (skill) 698.
- conqueror, victor; master of the situation, master of the position.
- V. succeed; be successful &c. adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends;
- crown with success.
- gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a
- point, win an object; get there *[U.S.]; manage to, contrive to; accomplish
- &c. (effect, complete) 729; do wonders, work wonders; make a go of it.
- come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make
- short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's
- spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the
- prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have
- the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the
- hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of
- the field; score a success.
- speed; make progress &c. (advance) 282; win one's way, make one's way,
- work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper &c. 734;
- drive a roaring trade; make profit &c. (acquire) 775; reap the fruits,
- gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil *
- [U.S.]; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn
- to account &c. (use) 677.
- triump, be triumphant; gain a victory, obtain a victory, gain an
- advantage; chain victory to one's car.
- surmount a difficulty, overcome a difficulty, get over a difficulty,
- get over an obstacle &c. 706; se tirer d'affaire; make head against; stem
- the torrent, stem the tide, stem the current; weather the storm, weather a
- point; turn a corner, keep one's head above water, tide over; master; get
- the better of, have the better of, gain the better of, gain the best of,
- gain the upper hand, gain the ascendancy, gain the whip hand, gain the
- start of; distance; surpass &c. (superiority) 33.
- defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow,
- overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit,
- outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of
- one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst;
- put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of
- court.
- silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus,
- stalemate, trump; baffle &c. (hinder) 706; circumvent, elude; trip up, trip
- up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put
- one's nose out of joint.
- settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink,
- shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate &c. (subject) 749; reduce; make
- the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot,
- put an extinguisher upon.
- answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out
- well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the
- right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's
- account in.
- Adj. succeeding &c. v.; successful; prosperous &c. 734; triumphant;
- flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious; set up; in the
- ascendant; unbeaten &c. (see beat &c. v.); well-spent; felicitous,
- effective, in full swing.
- Adv. successfully &c. adj.; well flying colors, in triumph,
- swimmingly; a merveille, beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose;
- to one's heart's content.
- Phr. veni vidi vici, the day being one;s own, one's star in the
- ascendant; omne tulit punctum.
- bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria; cede repugnanti cedendo victor
- abibis [Ovid]; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; dies faustus; l'art de
- vaincre est celui de mpriser la mort; omnia vincit amor; "peace hath her
- victories no less renowned than war" [Milton]; "the race by vigor not by
- vaunts is won" [Pope]; vincit qui patitur; vincit qui se vincit.
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- #732. Failure. -- N. failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead
- failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen &c. 158;
- labor in vain &c. (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness &c.
- adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive
- efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello];
- frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip &c. (disappointment) 509.
- blunder &c. (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip,
- trip, stumble, claudication|, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas,
- titubation, bvue, faute, lurch; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699; scrape,
- mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].
- mishap &c. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.
- repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating,
- drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmake, stalemate, fool's mate.
- fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck &c. (destruction0 162;
- deathblow; bankruptcy &c. (nonpayment) 808.
- losing game, affaire flambe.
- victim; bankrupt; flunker, flunky [U.S.].
- V. fail; be unsuccessful &c. adj.; not succeed &c. 731; make vain
- efforts &c.n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose
- one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing
- of; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible) 471; roll the stones of
- Sisyphus &c. (useless) 645; do by halves &c. (not complete) 730; lose
- ground &c. (recede) 282; fall short of &c. 304.
- miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays;
- slip, trip, stumble; make a slip &c., n. blunder &c. 495, make a mess of,
- make a botch of; bitch it|, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come
- down like the stick, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the
- tail, get the wrong sow by the ear &c. (blunder, mismanage) 699.
- limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall
- to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud,
- run aground, split upon a rock; run one's head against a stone wall, knock
- one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall;
- break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut
- from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come
- to grief &c. (adversity) 735; go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot;
- lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated &c. 731; have the worst of it,
- lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb &c.
- (submit) 725; not have a leg to stand on.
- come to nothing, end in smoke; flat out [U.S.]|; fall to the ground,
- fall through, fall dead, fall stillborn, fall flat; slip through one's
- fingers; hang fire, miss fire; flash in the pan, collapse; topple down &c.
- (descent) 305; go to wrack and ruin &c. (destruction) 162.
- go amiss, go wrong, go cross, go hard with, go on a wrong tack; go on
- ill, come off ill, turn out ill, work ill; take a wrong term, take an ugly
- term.
- be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes &c.
- (disappoint) 509; defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind,
- jump out of the frying pan into the fire.
- Adj. unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping &c.v.; at fault;
- unfortunate &c. 735.
- abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual,
- ineffective; inefficient &c. (impotent) 158; insufficient &c. 640;
- unavailing &c. (useless) 645; of no effect.
- aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered,
- capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated &c. 731; struck down,
- borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with;
- ploughed, plowed, plucked.
- lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt &c. (not paying) 808; played
- out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked
- on the head; destroyed &c. 162.
- frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's
- balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends|; unhorsed, in a
- sorry plight; hard hit.
- stultified, befooled, dished, hoist on one's own petard; victimized,
- sacrificed.
- wide of the mark &c. (error) 495; out of one's reckoning &c.
- (inexpectation) 508; left in the lurch; thrown away &c. (wasted) 638;
- unattained; uncompleted &c. 730.
- Adv. unsuccessfully &c. adj.; to little or no purpose, in vain, re
- infecta.
- Phr. the bubble has burst, "the game is up" [Cymbeline]; all is lost;
- the devil to pay; parturiunt montes &c. (disappointment) 509; dies
- infaustus; tout est perdu hors l'honneur.
-
- #733. Trophy. -- N. trophy; medal, prize, palm; laurel, laurels; bays,
- crown, chaplet, wreath, civic crown; insignia &c. 550; feather in one's cap
- &c. (honor) 873; decoration &c. 877; garland, triumphal arch, Victoria
- Cross, Iron Cross.
- triumph &c. (celebration) 883; flying colors &c. (show) 882.
- monumentum aere perennius [Hor.].
- Phr. "for valor."
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- #734. Prosperity. -- N. prosperity, welfare, well-being; affluence
- &c. (wealth) 803; success &c. 731; thrift, roaring trade; good fortune,
- smiles of fortune; blessings, godsend.
- luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy
- days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.
- Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses;
- fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.
- made man, lucky dog, enfant gate, spoiled child of fortune.
- upstart, parvenu, skipjack, mushroom.
- V. prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous &c adj.; drive a roaring
- trade; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind,
- swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.
- rise in the world, get on in the world; work one's way, make one's
- way; look up; lift one's head, raise one's head, make one's forune, feather
- one's nest, make one's pile.
- flower, blow, blossom, bloom, fructify, bear fruit, fatten.
- keep oneself afloat; keep one's head above water, hold one's head
- above water; light on one's feet, light on one's legs, fall on one's
- legs, fall on one's feet; drop into a good thing; bear a charmed life; bask
- in the sunshine; have a good time of it, have a fine time of it; have a run
- of luck; have the good fortune &c. n. to; take a favorable turn; live on
- the fat of the land, live in clover.
- Adj. prosperous; thriving &c. v.; in a fair way, buoyant; well off,
- well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich &c. 803;
- in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born
- with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny
- side of the hedge.
- auspicious, propitious, providential.
- palmy, halcyon; agreeable &c. 829; couleur de rose.
- Adv. prosperously &c. adj.; swimmingly; as good luck would have it;
- beyond all hope.
- Phr. one's star in the ascendant, all for the best, one's course runs
- smooth.
- chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; donec eris felix multos numerabis
- amicos [Ovid]; felicitas multos habet amicos; felix se nescit amari
- [Lucan]; 'good luck go with thee' [Henry V]; nulli est homini perpetuum
- bonum [Plautus].
-
- #735. Adversity. -- N. adversity, evil &c. 619; failure &c. 732; bad
- luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck,
- hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius|;
- ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life;
- sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.
- trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.
- pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard
- times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering
- clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction &c. (painfulness) 830;
- bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.
- mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity,
- catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub;
- backset, comedown, setback [U.S.].
- losing game; falling &c. v.; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness;
- undoing; extremity; ruin &c. (destruction) 162.
- V. be ill off &c. adj.; go hard with; fall on evil, fall on evil days;
- go on ill; not prosper &c. 734.
- go downhill, go to rack and ruin &c. (destruction) 162, go to the
- dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in
- the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow
- to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest
- about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.
- Adj. unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous,
- unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble,
- in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly
- off; in adverse circumstances; poor &c. 804; behindhand, down in the world,
- decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in
- one's utmost need.
- planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden
- ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.
- adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.
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- #736. Mediocrity. -- N. moderate circumstances, average
- circumstances; respectability; middle classes; mediocrity; golden mean &c.
- (mid-course) 628, (moderation) 174.
- V. jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go
- respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on
- tolerably, get on respectably.
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- #737. Authority.-- N. authority; influence, patronage, power,
- preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction; right &c.
- (title) 924.
- divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness; absoluteness,
- absolutism; despotism; jus nocendi; jus divinum.
- command, empire, sway, rule; dominion, domination; sovereignty,
- supremacy, suzerainty; lordship, headship; chiefdom; seigniory,
- seigniority; mastery, mastership, masterdom; government &c. (direction)
- 693; dictation, control.
- hold, grasp; grip, gripe; reach; iron sway &c. (severity) 739; fangs,
- clutches, talons; rod of empire &c. (scepter) 747.
- reign, regime, dynasty; directorship, dictatorship; protectorate,
- protectorship; caliphate, pashalic, electorate; presidency, presidentship;
- administration; proconsul, consulship; prefecture; seneschalship;
- magistrature, magistracy.
- empire; monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy,
- aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, demagogy; heteronomy; republic,
- republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox
- populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom;
- stratocracy; military power, military government; feodality, feudal system,
- feudalism.
- Thearchy, dinarchy; duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy; duumvirate;
- triumvirate; autocracy, autonomy; limited monarchy; constitutional
- government, constitutional monarchy; home rule; representative government;
- monocracy, pantisocracy.
- gynarchy, gynocracy, gynaeocracy; petticoat government.
- [Vicarious authority] commission &c. 755; deputy &c.759; permission
- &c. 760.
- state, realm, body politic, posse comitatus.
- person in authority &c. (master) 745; judicature &c. 965; cabinet &c.
- (council) 696; seat of government, seat of authority; headquarters.
- [Acquisition of authority] accession; installation &c. 755.
- V. authorize &c. (permit) 760; warrant &c. (right) 924; dictate &c.
- (order) 741; have authority, hold authority, possess authority, exercise
- authority, exert authority, wield authority &c. n.
- be at the head of &c. adj.; hold office, be in office, fill an office;
- hold master, occupy master, a post master, be master &c. 745.
- rule, sway, command, control, administer; govern &c. (direct) 693;
- lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne,
- occupy the throne; sway the scepter, wield the scepter; wear the crown.
- have the upper hand, get the upper hand, have the whip, get the whip;
- gain a hold upon, preponderate, dominate, rule the roost; boss [U.S.];
- override, overrule, overawe; lord it over, hold in hand, keep under, make a
- puppet of, lead by the nose, turn round one's little finger, bend to one's
- will, hold one's own, wear the breeches; have the ball at one's feet, have
- it all one's own way, have the game in one's own hand, have on the hip,
- have under one's thumb; be master of the situation; take the lead, play
- first fiddle, set the fashion; give the law to; carry with a high hand; lay
- down the law; "ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm" [Addison]; rule
- with a rod of iron &c. (severity) 739.
- ascend the throne, mount the throne; take the reins, take the reins
- into one's hand; assume authority &c. n., -the reins of government; take
- command, assume the command.
- be governed by, be in the power of.
- Adj. ruling &c. v.; regnant, at the head, dominant, paramount,
- supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential;
- gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed
- with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory,
- overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; arbitrary; compulsory &c.
- 744: stringent.
- regal, sovereign; royal, oryalist; monarchical, kingly; imperial,
- imperiatorial; princely; feudal; aristocratic, autocratic; oligarchic &c.
- n.; republican, dynastic.
- at one's command; in one's power, in one's grasp; under control;
- authorized &c. (due) 924.
- Adv. in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of;
- under the auspices of, in the hands of.
- at one's pleasure; by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen; ex
- mero motu; ex catahedra.
- Phr. the gray mare the better horse; "every inch a king" [Lear].
- "a dog's obeyed in office" [Lear]; cada uno tiene su alguazil; le Roi
- le veut; regibus esse manus en nescio longas; regnant populi; "the demigod
- Authority [Measure for Measure]; "the right divine of kings to govern
- wrong" [Pope]; "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" [Henry IV].
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- #738. [Absence of authority] Laxity.-- N. laxity; laxness, looseness,
- slackness; toleration &c. (lenity) 740; freedom &c. 748.
- anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening &c. v.; remission; dead
- letter, brutum fulmen, misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination
- &c. (disobedience) 742; lynch law &c. (illegality) 964; nihilism, reign of
- violence.
- [Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, unsurpation,
- abdication.
- V. be -lax &c. adj.; laisser faire, lasisser aller; hold a loose rein;
- give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to; tolerate; relax;
- misrule.
- go beyond the length of one's tether; have one's swing, have one's
- fling; act without instructions, act without authority; act on one's own
- responsibility, unsurp authority.
- dethrone, depose; abdicate.
- Adj. lax, loose; slack; remiss &c. (careless) 460; weak.
- relaxed; licensed; reinless, unbridled; anarchical; unauthorized &c.
- (unwarranted) 925; adespotic.
-
- #739. Severity.-- N. severity; strictness, harshness &c. adj.; rigor,
- stringency, austerity; inclemency &c. (pitilessness) 914a; arrogance &c.
- 885; precisianism.
- arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy,
- tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition,
- reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway;
- tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion &c. 744; strong hand,
- tight hand.
- hard lines, hard measure; tender mercies [ironical]; sharp practice;
- pipe-clay, officialism.
- tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot,
- hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture;
- accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors.
- V. be -severe &c. adj.
- assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully &c. 885;
- tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon;
- bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon;
- ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron,
- chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under
- foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample
- down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke;
- hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce &c.
- 744; give no quarter &c. (pitiless) 914a.
- Adj. severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous,
- uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible,
- obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-shell [U.S.], relentless, Spartan,
- Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed,
- peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive &c. 744;
- tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial;
- inclement &c. (ruthless) 914a; cruel &c. (malevolent) 907; haughty,
- arrogant &c. 885; precisian.
- Adv. severely &c. adj.; with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a
- tight hand, with a heavy hand.
- at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet.
- Phr. Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi; manu forti; ogni debole ha
- sempre il suo tiranno.
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- #740. Lenity.-- N. lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation &c. 174;
- tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency;
- clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter; compassion &c. 914.
- V. be -lenient &c. adj.; tolerate, bear with; parcere subjectis, give
- quarter.
- indulge, allow one to have his own way, spoil.
- Adj. lenient; mild, mild as milk; gentle, soft; tolerant, indulgent,
- easy-going; clement &c. (compassionate) 914; forbearing; long-suffering.
-
- #741. Command.-- N. command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm,
- bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod.
- despatch, dispatch; message, direction, injunction, charge,
- instructions; appointment, fixture.
- demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation,
- revendication; ultimatum &c. (terms) 770; request &c. 765; requirement.
- dictation; dictate, mandate; caveat, decree, senatus consultum;
- precept; prescript, rescript; writ, ordination, bull, edict, decretal,
- dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, firman, hatti-sherif,
- warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius,
- interpellation, citation; word, word of command; mot d'ordre; bugle call,
- trumpet call; beat of drum, tattoo; order of the day; enactment &c. (law)
- 963; plebiscite &c. (choice) 609.
- V. command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give
- orders.
- prescribe, set, appoint, mark out; set a task, prescribe a task,
- impose a task; set to work, put in requisition.
- bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of;
- exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on &c. (compel) 744.
- claim, lay claim to, revendicate, reclaim.
- cite, summon; call for, send for; subpoena; beckon.
- issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a
- requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an
- order, issue an order, promulgate an order &c. n.; give the word of
- command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay
- down the law; assume the command &c. (authority) 737; remand.
- be -ordered &c.; receive an order &c. n.
- Adj. commanding &c. v.; authoritative &c. 737; decretory, decretive,
- decretal; callable, jussive.
- Adv. in a commanding tone; by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the
- pen; by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons.
- Phr. the decree is gone forth; sic volo sic jubeo; le Roi le veut;
- boutez en avant.
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- #742. Disobedience.-- N. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy;
- infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance &c. 773.
- revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection,
- emeute; riot, tumult &c. (disorder) 59; strike &c.(resistance) 719; barring
- out; defiance &c. 715.
- mutinousness &c. adj.; mutineering; sedition, treason; high treason,
- petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire; lese majeste; violation of
- law &c. 964; defection, secession.
- insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, rioter, traitor, carbonaro,
- sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur;
- seceder, runagate, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello,
- Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.
- V. disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance &c. (defy) 715;
- set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into
- one's own hands; kick over the traces.
- turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike &c. (resist) 719;
- rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.
- Adj. disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive, unruly,
- ungovernable; breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control; restiff|,
- restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant &c. (refuse) 764; recalcitrant;
- resisting &c. 719; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.
- unobeyed; unbidden.
- Phr. seditiosissimus quisque ignavus [Tacitus]; "unthread the rude eye
- of rebellion" [King John].
-
- #743. Obedience.-- N. obedience; observance &c. 772; compliance;
- submission &c. 725; subjection &c. 749; nonresistance; passiveness,
- resignation.
- allegiance, loyalty, fealty, homage, deference, devotion; constancy,
- fidelity.
- submissness, submissiveness; ductility &c. (softness) 324;
- obsequiousness &c. (servility) 886.
- V. be -obedient &c. adj.; obey, bear obedience to; submit &c. 725;
- comply, answer the helm, come at one's call; do one's bidding, do what one
- is told, do suit and service; attend to orders, serve faithfully.
- follow the lead of, follow to the world's end; serve &c. 746; play
- second fiddle.
- Adj. obedient; complying, compliant; loyal, faithful, devoted; at
- one's call, at one's command, at one's orders, at one's beck and call;
- under beck and call, under control.
- restrainable; resigned, passive; submissive &c. 725; henpecked; pliant
- &c. (soft) 324.
- unresisted.
- Adv. obediently &c. adj.; in compliance with, in obedience to.
- Phr. to hear is to obey; as you please, if you please;.
-
- #744. Compulsion.-- N. compulsion, coercion, coaction, constraint,
- duress, enforcement, press, conscription.
- force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima
- ratio; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du
- plus fort, martial law.
- restraint &c. 751; necessity &c. 601; force majeure; Hobson's choice.
- V. compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce,
- necessitate, oblige.
- force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force
- down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no
- denial; put down, dragoon.
- extort, wring from; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into;
- bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force;
- commandeer; restrain &c. 751.
- Adj. compelling &c. v.; coercive, coactive; inexorable &c. 739;
- compulsory, compulsatory; obligatory, stringent, peremptory.
- forcible, not to be trifled with; irresistible &c. 601; compelled & c.
- v.; fain to.
- Adv. by force &c. n., by force of arms; on compulsion, perforce; vi et
- armis, under the lash; at the point of the sword, at the point of the
- bayonet; forcibly; by a strong arm.
- under protest, in spite of one's teeth; against one's will &c. 603;
- nolens volens &c. (of necessity) 601; by stress of circumstances, by stress
- of weather; under press of; de rigueur.
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- #745. Master.-- N. master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander,
- commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior,
- governor, ruler, dictator; leader &c. (director) 694; boss, cockarouse,
- sagamore, werowance.
- lord of the ascendant; cock of the walk, cock of the roost; gray mare;
- mistress.
- potentate; liege, liege lord; suzerain, sovereign, monarch, autocrat,
- despot, tyrant, oligarch.
- crowned head, emperor, king, anointed king, majesty, imperator,
- protector, president, stadholder, judge.
- ceasar, kaiser, czar, tsar, sultan, soldan|, grand Turk, caliph,
- imaum, shah, padishah, sophi, mogul, great mogul, khan, lama, tycoon,
- mikado, inca, cazique; voivode; landamman; seyyid; Abuna, cacique,
- czarowitz, grand seignior.
- prince, duke &c. (nobility) 875; archduke, doge, elector; seignior;
- marland, margrave; rajah, emir, nizam, nawab.
- empress, queen, sultana, czarina, princess, infanta, duchess,
- margravine; czarevna, czarita; maharani, rani, rectrix.
- regent, viceroy, exarch, palatine, khedive, hospodar, beglerbeg,
- three-tailed bashaw, pasha, bashaw, bey, beg, dey, scherif, tetrarch,
- satrap, mandarin, subahdar, nabob, maharajah; burgrave; laird &c.
- (proprietor) 779; collector, commissioner, deputy commissioner, woon.
- the authorities, the powers that be, the government; staff, etat
- major, aga, official, man in office, person in authority; sircar, sirkar,
- Sublime Porte.
- [Military authorities] marshal, field marshal, marechal; general,
- generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general,
- major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion,
- skipper, lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp,
- brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet,
- subaltern, noncommissioned officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color
- sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum
- major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.
- [Civil authorities] mayor, mayoralty; prefect, chancellor, archon,
- provost, magistrate, syndic; alcalde, alcaid; burgomaster, corregidor,
- seneschal, alderman, warden, constable, portreeve; lord mayor; officer &c.
- (executive) 965; dewan, fonctionnaire.
- [Naval authorities] admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral,
- port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, skipper, mate,
- master; navarch.
- Phr. da locum melioribus; der Furst ist der erste Diener seines
- Siaats; "lord of thy presence and no land beside" [King John].
-
- #746. Servant.-- N. subject, liegeman; servant, retainer, follower,
- henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache;
- official.
- retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court.
- attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup
- bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunkey,
- valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger,
- orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender;
- bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar;
- yardman.
- bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the
- chambers.
- secretary; under secretary, assistant secretary; clerk; subsidiary;
- agent &c. 758; subaltern; underling, understrapper; man.
- maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail,
- soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house
- maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid;
- femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu,
- cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all
- work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman &c. (worker) 690; bearer,
- chokra, gyp [Cambridge], hamal, scout [Oxford].
- serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave;
- ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman,
- bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent;
- hanger on, satellite; parasite &c. (servility) 886; led captain; protege,
- ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, creature.
- badge of slavery; bonds &c. 752.
- V. serve; wait upon, attend upon, dance attendance upon, pin oneself
- upon; squire, tend, hang on the sleeve of; chore [U.S.].
- Adj. in the train of; in one's pay, in one's employ; at one's call &c.
- (obedient) 743; in bonds.
-
-
- #747. [Insignia of authority.] Scepter.-- N. scepter, regalia,
- caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire,
- mace, fasces, wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; flag &c.
- (insignia) 550; ensign of authority, emblem of authority, badge of
- authority, insignia of authority.
- throne, chair, musnud, divan, dais, woolsack.
- toga, pall, mantle, robes of state, ermine, purple.
- crown, coronet, diadem, tiara, cap of maintenance; decoration; title
- &c. 877; portfolio.
- key, signet, seals, talisman; helm; reins &c. (means of restraint)
- 752.
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- #748. Freedom.-- N. freedom, liberty, independence; license &c.
- (permission) 760; facility &c. 705.
- scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full
- scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope,
- wide berth; Liberty Hall.
- franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen.
- autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference &c.
- 706; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.].
- immunity, exemption; emancipation &c. (liberation) 750;
- enfranchisement, affranchisement.
- free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain.
- bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
- V. be free &c. adj.; have scope &c. n., have the run of, have one's
- own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do
- what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large,
- feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's
- rights; shift for oneself.
- take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a
- freedom; take leave, take French leave.
- set free &c. (liberate) 750; give a loose to &c. (permit) 760; allow
- scope &c. n. to, give scope & c. n. to; give a horse his head.
- make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise,
- affranchise.
- laisser faire, laisser aller; live and let live; leave to oneself;
- leave alone, let alone.
- Adj. free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose,
- scot-free; left alone, left to oneself.
- in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined,
- unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound,
- uncontrolled, untrammeled.
- unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained,
- unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled.
- unrestricted, unlimited, unconditional; absolute; discretionary &c.
- (optional) 600.
- unassailed, unforced, uncompelled.
- unbiassed, spontaneous.
- free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton,
- rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished.
- exempt; freed &c. 750; freeborn; autonomous, freehold, allodial;
- gratis &c. 815; eleutherian.
- unclaimed, going a begging.
- Adv. freely &c. adj.; ad libitum &c. (at will) 600.
- Phr. ubi libertas ibi patria; free white and twenty-one.
-
- #749. Subjection.-- N. subjection; dependence, dependency;
- subordination; thrall, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage,
- serfdom; feudalism, feudality; vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement,
- involuntary servitude; conquest.
- service; servitude, servitorship; tendence, employ, tutelage,
- clientship; liability &c. 177; constraint &c.751; oppression &c. (severity)
- 739; yoke &c. (means of restraint) 752; submission &c. 725; obedience &c.
- 743.
- V. be subject &c. adj.; be at the mercy of, lie at the mercy of;
- depend upon, lean upon, hang upon; fall a prey to, fall under; play second
- fiddle.
- be a mere machine, be a puppet, be a football; not dare to say one's
- soul is his own; drag a chain.
- serve &c. 746; obey &c. 743; submit &c. 725.
- break in, tame; subject, subjugate; master &c. 731; tread down, tread
- under foot; weigh down; drag at one's chariot wheels; reduce to subjection,
- reduce to slavery; enthrall, inthrall, bethrall; enslave, lead captive;
- take into custody &c. (restrain) 751; rule &c. 737; drive into a corner,
- hold at the sword's point; keep under; hold in bondage, hold in leading
- strings, hold in swaddling clothes.
- Adj. subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection
- to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved &c.
- v.; constrained &c. 751; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the
- lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of,
- the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's
- thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in
- the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call &c. (obedient) 743;
- liable &c. 177; parasitical; stipendiary.
- Adv. under.
- Phr. "slaves - in a land of light and law" [Whittier].
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- #750. Liberation.-- N. liberation, disengagement, release,
- enlargement, emancipation; disenthrallment, disenthralment;
- affranchisement, enfranchisement; manumission; discharge, dismissal.
- deliverance &c. 672; redemption, extrication, acquittance, absolution;
- acquittal &c. 970; escape &c.671.
- V. liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free,
- emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband,
- discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, let out,
- let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver &c. 672; absolve &c. (acquit)
- 970.
- unfetter &c. 751, untie &c. 43; loose &c. (disjoin) 44; loosen,
- relax,; unbolt, unbar, unclose, uncork, unclog, unhand, unbind, unchain,
- unharness; disengage, disentangle; clear, extricate, unloose.
- gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty &c.
- 748; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke,
- slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast
- off trammels; escape &c. 671.
- Adj. liberated &c. v.; out of harness &c. (free) 748.
- Int. unhand me! let me go!
-
- #751. Restraint.-- N. restraint; hindrance &c. 706; coercion &c.
- (compulsion) 744; cohibition, constraint, repression; discipline, control.
- confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration,
- coarctation|, entombment, mancipation, durance vile, limbo, captivity;
- blockade.
- arrest, arrestation; custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency.
- curb &c. (means of restraint) 752; lettres de cachet.
- limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly; prohibition &c. 761.
- prisoner &c. 754; repressionist.
- V. restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint;
- enthral(l), inthral(l), bethral(l); restrict; debar &c. (hinder) 706;
- constrain; coerce &c. (compel) 744; curb, control; hold back, hold from,
- hold in, hold in check, hold within bounds, keep back, keep from, keep in,
- keep in check, keep within bounds; hold in leash, hold in leading strings;
- withhold.
- keep under; repress, suppress; smother; pull in, rein in; hold, hold
- fast; keep a tight hand on; prohibit &c. 761; inhibit, cohibit.
- enchain; fasten &c. (join) 43; fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle,
- muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble,
- bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down,
- tie up; secure; forge fetters.
- confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle
- up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in;
- impound, pen, coop; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; cage; incage, encage;
- close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap
- under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat;
- throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.
- arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner,
- take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead
- into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge,
- give in custody; subjugate &c. 749.
- Adj. restrained, constrained; imprisoned &c.v.; pent up; jammed in,
- wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling
- clothes; on parole; in custody &c. (prisoner) 754; cohibitive; coactive &c.
- (compulsory) 744.
- stiff, restringent, strait-laced, hidebound, barkbound.
- ice bound, wind bound, weather bound; "cabined cribbed confined"
- [Macbeth]; in Lob's pound, laid by the heels.
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- #752. [Means of restraint.] Prison.-- N. prison, prison house; jail,
- gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon,
- Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollboth,
- panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch
- house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black
- hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure &c. 232; penal settlement; bilboes,
- stocks, limbo, quod*; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse [U.S.].
- Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's (or Queen's) Bench.
- bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle,
- handcuff, strait-waistcoat, hopples; vice, vise.
- yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle,
- bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether,
- picket, band, guy, chain; cord &c. (fastening) 45; cavesson, hackamore
- [U.S.], headstall, jaquima [U.S.], lines, ribbons.
- bolt, bar, lock, padlock, rail, wall; paling, palisade; fence;
- barrier, barricade.
- drag &c. (hindrance) 706.
-
- #753. Keeper.-- N. keeper, custodian, custos, ranger, warder, jailer,
- gaoler, turnkey, castellan, guard; watchdog, watchman; Charley; chokidar,
- durwan, hayward; sentry, sentinel; watch and ward; concierge, coastguard,
- guarda costa, game keeper.
- escort, bodyguard.
- protector, governor, duenna; guardian; governess &c. (teacher) 540;
- nurse, bonne, ayah.
-
- #754. Prisoner.-- N. prisoner, captive, detenu, close prisoner.
- jail bird, ticket of leave man, chevronne.
- V. stand committed; be imprisoned &c. 751.
- Adj. imprisoned &c. 751; in prison, in quod*, in durance vile, in
- limbo, in custody, in charge, in chains; under lock and key, under hatches;
- on parole.
-
- #755. [Vicarious authority.] Commission.-- N. commission, delegation;
- consignment, assignment; procuration; deputation, legation, mission,
- embassy; agency, agentship; power of attorney; clerkship.
- errand, charge, brevet, diploma, exequatur, permit &c. (permission)
- 760.
- appointment, nomination, return; charter; ordination; installation,
- inauguration, investiture; accession, coronation, enthronement.
- vicegerency; regency, regentship.
- viceroy &c. 745; consignee &c. 758; deputy &c. 759.
- V. commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge; intrust,
- entrust; commit, commit to the hands of; authorize &c. (permit) 760.
- put in commission, accredit, engage, hire, bespeak, appoint, name,
- nominate, return, ordain; install, induct, inaugurate, invest, crown;
- enroll, enlist; give power of attorney to.
- employ, empower; set over, place over; send out.
- be commissioned, be accredited; represent, stand for; stand in the
- stead of, stand in the place of, stand in the shoes of.
- Adj. commissioned &c. v.
- Adv. per procurationem.
-
- #756. Abrogation.-- N. abrogation, annulment, nullification; vacatur;
- canceling &c. v.; cancel; revocation, revokement; repeal, rescission,
- defeasance.
- dismissal, conge, demission|; bounce* [U.S.]; deposal, deposition;
- dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment; deconsecration; sack*,
- walking papers, walking ticket; yellow cover*.
- abolition, abolishment; dissolution.
- counter order, countermand; repudiation, retractation; recantation &c.
- (tergiversation) 607; abolitionist.
- V. abrogate, annul, cancel; destroy &c. 162; abolish; revoke,
- repeal, rescind, reverse, retract, recall; abolitionize; overrule,
- override; set aside; disannul, dissolve, quash, nullify, declare null and
- void; disestablish, disendow; deconsecrate.
- disclaim &c. (deny) 536; ignore, repudiate; recant &c. 607; divest
- oneself, break off.
- countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away;
- throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind.
- dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out
- of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send about one's
- business; discharge, get rid of &c. (eject) 297; bounce* [U.S.]; fire*,
- fire out*; sack*.
- cashier; break; oust; unseat, unsaddle; unthrone, dethrone,
- disenthrone; depose, uncrown; unfrock, strike off the roll; disbar,
- disbench.
- be abrogated &c.; receive its quietus.
- Adj. abrogated &c. v.; functus officio.
- Int. get along with you! begone! go about your business! away with!
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- #757. Resignation.-- N. resignation, retirement, abdication,
- renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment.
- V. resign; give up, throw up; lay down, throw up the cards, wash one's
- hands of, abjure, renounce, forego, disclaim, retract; deny &c. 536.
- abrogate &c. 756; desert &c. (relinquish) 624; get rid of &c. 782.
- abdicate; vacate, vacate one's seat; accept the stewardship of the
- Chiltern Hundreds; retire; tender one's resignation.
- Adj. abdicant.
- Phr. "Othello's occupation's gone" [Othello].
-
- #758. Consignee.-- N. consignee, trustee, nominee, committee.
- delegate; commissary, commissioner; emissary, envoy, commissionaire,;
- messenger &c. 534.
- diplomatist, diplomat(e), corps diplomatique, embassy; ambassador,
- embassador; representative, resident, consul, legate, nuncio, internuncio,
- charge d'affaires, attache.
- vicegerent &c. (deputy) 759; plenipotentiary.
- functionary, placeman, curator; treasurer &c. 801; agent, factor,
- bailiff, clerk, secretary, attorney, solicitor, proctor, broker,
- underwriter, commission agent, auctioneer, one's man of business; factotum
- &c. (director) 694; caretaker; dalal, dubash, garnishee, gomashta.
- negotiator, go-between; middleman; under agent, employe; servant &c.
- 746.
- traveler, bagman, commis-voyageur, touter, commercial traveler,
- drummer [U.S.], traveling man.
- newspaper correspondent, own correspondent, special correspondent.
-
- #759. Deputy.-- N. deputy, substitute, vice, proxy, locum tenens,
- badli, delegate, representative, next friend, surrogate, secondary.
- regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar; premier &c. (director)
- 694; chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul,
- proconsul; viceroy &c. (governor) 745; commissioner &c. 758; Tsung-li
- Yamen, Wai Wu Pu; plenipotentiary, alter ego.
- team, eight, eleven; champion.
- V. be deputy &c. n.; stand for, appear for, hold a brief for, answer
- for; represent; stand in the shoes of, walk in the shoes of; stand in the
- stead of.
- ablegate, accredit.
- Adj. acting, vice, vice regal; accredited to.
- Adv. in behalf of.
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-
- #760. Permission.-- N. permission, leave; allowance, sufferance;
- tolerance, toleration; liberty, law, license, concession, grace; indulgence
- &c. (lenity) 740; favor, dispensation, exemption, release; connivance;
- vouchsafement.
- authorization, warranty, accordance, admission.
- permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm;
- pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche, ticket of leave; grant,
- charter; patent.
- V. permit; give permission &c. n., give power; let, allow, admit;
- suffer, bear with, tolerate, recognize; concede &c. 762; accord, vouchsafe,
- favor, humor, gratify, indulge, stretch a point; wink at, connive at; shut
- one's eyes to.
- grant, empower, charter, enfranchise, privilege, confer a privilege,
- license, authorize, warrant; sanction; intrust &c. (commission) 755.
- give carte blanche, give the reins to, give scope to &c. (freedom)
- 748; leave alone, leave it to one, leave the door open; open the door to,
- open the flood gates; give a loose to.
- let off; absolve &c. (acquit) 970; release, exonerate, dispense with.
- ask permission, beg permission, request permission, ask leave, beg
- leave, request leave.
- Adj. permitting &c. v.; permissive, indulgent; permitted &c. v.;
- patent, chartered, permissible, allowable, lawful, legitimate, legal;
- legalized &c. (law) 963; licit; unforbid, unforbidden; unconditional.
- Adv. by leave, with leave, on leave &c. n.; speciali gratia; under
- favor of; pace; ad libitum &c. (freely) 748, (at will) 600; by all means
- &c. (willingly) 602; yes &c. (assent) 488.
- Phr. avec permissin; brevet d'invention.
-
- #761. Prohibition.-- N. prohibition, inhibition; veto, disallowance;
- interdict, interdiction; injunction; embargo, ban, taboo, proscription;
- index expurgatorius; restriction &c. (restraint) 751; hindrance &c.706;
- forbidden fruit; Maine law [U.S.].
- V. prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow; bar;
- debar &c. (hinder) 706, forefend.
- keep in, keep within bounds; restrain &c. 751; cohibit, withhold,
- limit, circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict; interdict, taboo; put
- under an interdiction, place under an interdiction; put under the ban,
- place under the ban; proscribe; exclude, shut out; shut the door, bolt the
- door, show the door; warn off; dash the cup from one's lips; forbid the
- banns.
- Adj. prohibitive, prohibitory; proscriptive; restrictive, exclusive;
- forbidding &c. v.
- prohibited &c. v.; not permitted &c. 760; unlicensed, contraband,
- under the ban of; illegal &c. 964; unauthorized, not to be thought of.
- Adv. on no account &c. (no) 536.
- Int. forbid it heaven! &c. (deprecation) 766.
- hands off! keep off! hold! stop! avast!
- Phr. that will never do.
-
- #762. Consent.-- N. consent; assent &c. 488; acquiescence; approval
- &c. 931; compliance, agreement, concession; yieldance|, yieldingness;
- accession, acknowledgment, acceptance, agnition|.
- settlement, ratification, confirmation, adjustment.
- permit &c. (permission) 760; promise &c. 768.
- V. consent; assent &c. 488; yield assent, admit, allow, concede,
- grant, yield; come round, come over; give into, acknowledge, agnize, give
- consent, comply with, acquiesce, agree to, fall in with, accede, accept,
- embrace an offer, close with, take at one's word, have no objection.
- satisfy, meet one's wishes, settle, come to terms &c. 488; not refuse
- &c. 764; turn a willing ear &c. (willingness) 602; jump at; deign,
- vouchsafe; promise &c. 768.
- Adj. consenting &c. v.; squeezable; agreed &c. (assent) 488;
- unconditional.
- Adv. yes &c. (assent) 488; by all means &c. (willingly) 602; if you
- please, as you please; be it so, so be it, well and good, of course.
- Phr. chi tace accousente.
-
- #763. Offer.-- N. offer, proffer, presentation, tender, bid, overture;
- proposal, proposition; motion, invitation; candidature; offering &c. (gift)
- 784.
- V. offer, proffer, present, tender; bid; propose, move; make a motion,
- make advances; start; invite, hold out, place in one's way, put forward.
- hawk about; offer for sale &c. 796; press &c. (request) 765; lay at
- one's feet.
- offer oneself, present oneself; volunteer, come forward, be a
- candidate; stand for, bid for; seek; be at one's service; go a begging;
- bribe &c. (give) 784.
- Adj. offering, offered &c. v.; in the market, for sale, to let,
- disengaged, on hire.
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- #764. Refusal.-- N. refusal, rejection; noncompliance, incompliance;
- denial; declining &c. v.; declension; declinature; peremptory refusal, flat
- refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance.
- recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer; dissent &c. 489;
- revocation &c. 756.
- V. refuse, reject, deny, decline; nill, negative; refuse one's assent,
- withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse;
- grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass [at cards].
- be deaf to; turn a deaf ear to, turn one's back upon; set one's face
- against, discountenance, not hear of, have nothing to do with, wash one's
- hands of, stand aloof, forswear, set aside, cast behind one; not yield an
- inch &c. (obstinancy) 606.
- resist, cross; not grant &c. 762; repel, repulse, shut the door in
- one's face, slam the door in one's face; rebuff; send back, send to the
- right about, send away with a flea in the ear; deny oneself, not be at home
- to; discard &c. (repudiate) 610; rescind &c. (revoke) 756; disclaim,
- protest; dissent &c. 489.
- Adj. refusing &c. v.; restive, restiff|; recusant; uncomplying,
- unconsenting; not willing to hear of, deaf to.
- refused &c. v.; ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of,
- impossible.
- Adv. no &c. 536; on no account, not for the world; no thank you.
- Phr. non possumus; [ironically] your humble servant; bien oblige; not
- on your life [U.S.].
-
- #765. Request.-- N. request, requisition; claim &c. (demand) 741;
- petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.
- motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe;
- imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.
- orison &c. (worship) 990; incantation &c. (spell) 993.
- mendicancy; asking, begging &c. v.; postulation, solicitation,
- invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration,
- imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation.
- V. request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop
- the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to,
- put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a
- request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a
- prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a
- petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask
- trouble, ask one for; claim &c. (demand) 741; offer up prayers &c.
- (worship) 990; whistle for.
- beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure,
- adjure; obtest; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate,
- imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry
- aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of;
- come down on one's marrowbones.
- beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate,
- mump, cadge, beg one's bread.
- dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.
- bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for &c.
- (offer) 763; publish the banns.
- Adj. requesting &c. v.; precatory; suppliant, supplicant,
- supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory.
- importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's
- bended knees, on one's marowbones.
- Adv. prithee, do, please, pray; be so good as, be good enough; have
- the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please.
- Int. for God's sake! for heaven's sake! for goodness' sake! for
- mercy's sake!
- Phr. Dieu vous garde; dirigenos Domine.
-
- #766. [Negative request.] Deprecation.-- N. deprecation,
- expostulation; intercession, mediation, protest, remonstrance.
- V. deprecate, protest, expostulate, enter a protest, intercede for;
- remonstrate.
- Adj. deprecatory, expostulatory, intercessory, mediatorial.
- deprecated, protested.
- unsought, unbesought; unasked &c. (see ask &c. 765).
- Int. cry you mercy! God forbid! forbid it Heaven! Heaven forefend,
- Heaven forbid! far be it from! hands off! &c. (prohibition) 761.
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-
- #767. Petitioner.-- N. petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant,
- supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor,
- bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer.
- beggar, mendicant, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner,
- runner, steerer [U.S.], tout, touter.
- canvasser, bagman &c.758; salesman.
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- Section III. CONDITIONAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION
-
- #768. Promise.-- N. promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge,
- parole, word of honor, vow; oath &c. (affirmation) 535; profession,
- assurance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation; contract &c. 769;
- stipulation.
- engagement, preengagement; affiance; betroth, betrothal, betrothment.
- V. promise; give a promise &c. n.; undertake, engage; make an
- engagement, form an engagement; enter into an engagement, enter on an
- engagement; bind oneself, tie oneself, pledge oneself, commit oneself, take
- upon oneself; vow; swear &c. (affirm) 535, give one's word, pass one's
- word, pledge one's word, plight one's word, give one's honor, pass one's
- honor, pledge one's honor, plight one's honor, give credit, pass credit,
- pledge credit, plight credit, give troth, pass troth, pledge troth, plight
- troth; betroth, plight faith.
- assure, warrant, guarantee; covenant &c. 769; attest &c. (bear
- witness) 467.
- hold out an expectation; contract an obligation; become bound to,
- become sponsor for; answer for, be answerable for; secure; give security
- &c. 771; underwrite.
- adjure, administer an oath, put to one's oath, swear a witness.
- Adj. promising &c. v.; promissory; votive; under hand and seal, upon
- oath.
- promised &c. v.; affianced, pledged, bound; committed, compromised; in
- for it.
- Adv. as one's head shall answer for.
- Phr. in for a penny in for a pound; ex voto; gage d'amour.
-
- #768a. Release from engagement.-- N. release &c. (liberation) 750.
- Adj. absolute; unconditional &c. (free) 748.
-
- #769. Compact.-- N. compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation;
- pact, paction; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast, deal.
- stipulation, settlement, convention; compromise, cartel.
- Protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein, Sonderbund, charter, Magna
- Charta, Progmatic Sanction.
- negotiation &c. (bargaining) 794; diplomacy &c. (mediation) 724;
- negotiator &c. (agent) 758.
- ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil, signet.
- V. contract, covenant, agree for; engage &c. (promise) 768.
- treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain &c. (barter) 794.
- make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an
- understanding; compromise &c. 774; set at rest; close, close with;
- conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite;
- endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal &c. (attest) 467; indent.
- take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.
- Adj. agreed &c. v.; conventional; under hand and seal.
- Phr. caveat emptor.
-
- #770. Conditions.-- N. conditions, terms; articles, articles of
- agreement; memorandum.
- clauses, provisions; proviso &c. (qualification) 469; covenant,
- stipulation, obligation, ultimatum, sine qua non; casus foederris.
- V. make terms, come to terms &c. (contract) 769; make it a condition,
- stipulate, insist upon, make a point of; bind, tie up.
- Adj. conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in.
- Adv. conditionally &c. (with qualification) 469; provisionally, pro re
- nata; on condition; with a string to it.
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-
- #771. Security.-- N. security; guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty,
- bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, debenture, hypothecation, bill of
- sale, lien, pawn, pignoration; real security; vadium.
- stake, deposit, earnest, handsel, caution.
- promissory note; bill, bill of exchange; I.O.U.; personal security,
- covenant, specialty; parole &c. (promise) 768.
- acceptance, indorsement, signature, execution, stamp, seal.
- sponsor, sponsion, sponsorship; surety, bail; mainpernor, hostage;
- godchild, godfather, godmother.
- recognizance; deed of idemnity, covenant of idemnity.
- authentication, verification, warrant, certificate, voucher, dequet;
- record &c. 551; probate, attested copy.
- receipt; acquittance, quittance; discharge, release.
- muniment, title deed, instrument; deed, deed poll; assurance,
- indenture; charter &c. (compact) 769; charter poll; paper, parchment,
- settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil.
- V. give security, give bail, give substantial bail; go bail; pawn,
- impawn, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate.
- guarantee, warrant, assure; accept, indorse, underwrite, insure.
- execute, stamp; sign, seal &c. (evidence) 467.
- let, sett; grant a lease, take a lease, hold a lease; hold in pledge;
- lend on security &c. 787.
- Phr. bonis avibus; "gone where the woodbine twineth."
-
- #772. Observance.-- N. observance, performance, compliance,
- acquiescence, concurrence; obedience &c. 743; fulfillment, satisfaction,
- discharge; acquittance, acquittal.
- adhesion, acknowledgement; fidelity &c. (probity) 939; exact &c. 494 -
- observance.
- V. observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to,
- adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into
- execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office.
- perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation,
- acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good
- one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge;
- keep faith with, stand to one's engagement.
- Adj. observant, faithful, true, loyal; honorable &c. 939; true as the
- dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole; punctual, punctilious;
- literal &c. (exact) 494; as good as one's word.
- Adv. faithfully &c. adj.
- Phr. ignoscito soepe alteri nunquam tibi; tempori parendum; "to God,
- thy country, and thy friend be true" [Vaughan].
-
- #773. Nonobservance.-- N. nonobservance &c. 772; evasion,
- inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality.
- infringement, infraction; violation, transgression; piracy.
- retractation, repudiation, nullification; protest; forfeiture.
- lawlessness; disobedience &c. 742; bad faith &c. 940.
- V. fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside,
- ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.
- infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do
- violence to, drive a coach and six through.
- discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught,
- nullify, declare null and void; cancel &c. (wipe off) 552.
- retract, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from one's word, palter;
- stretch a point, strain a point.
- Adj. violating &c. v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive.
- unfulfilled &c. (see fulfill &c. 772).
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- #774. Compromise.-- N. compromise, commutation, composition; middle
- term, mezzo termine; compensation &c. 30; abatement of differences,
- adjustment, mutal concession.
- V. compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference,
- meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms &c. (contract) 769; submit
- to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange;
- straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue
- of necessity; take the will for the deed.
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-
- 1. Property in general
-
- #775. Acquisition.-- N. acquisition; gaining &c. v.; obtainment;
- procuration, procurement; purchase, descent, inheritance; gift &c. 784.
- recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin; redemption, salvage,
- trover.
- find, trouvaille, foundling.
- gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf;
- loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument &c. (remuneration) 973.
- profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit; avails;
- income &c. (receipt) 810; proceeds, produce, product; outcome, output;
- return, fruit, crop, harvest; second crop, aftermath; benefit &c. (good)
- 618.
- sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool; pot; wealth &c. 803.
- [Fraudulent acquisition] subreption; obreption; stealing &c. 791.
- V. acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect &c.
- (assemble) 72; pick, pickup; glean.
-
- find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together;
- get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw,
- get in the harvest.
- profit; make profit, draw profit; turn to profit, turn to account;
- make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of;
- reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny;
- make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise
- money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket &c. (wealth) 803.
- treasure up &c. (store) 636; realize, clear; produce &c. 161; take &c.
- 789.
- get back, recover, regain, retrieve, revendicate, replevy, redeem,
- come by one's own.
- come by, come in for; receive &c. 785; inherit; step into a fortune,
- step into the shoes of; succeed to.
- get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand,
- get at; take possession, come into possession, enter into possession.
- be profitable &c. adj.; pay, answer.
- accrue &c. (be received) 785.
- Adj. acquiring, acquired &c. v.; profitable, advantageous, gainful,
- remunerative, paying, lucrative.
- Phr. lucri causa.
-
- #776. Loss.-- N. loss; deperdition, perdition; forfeiture, lapse.
- privation, bereavement; deprivation &c. (dispossession) 789; riddance;
- damage, squandering, waste.
- V. lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss;
- mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without &c.
- (exempt) 777a; forfeit.
- get rid of &c. 782; waste &c. 638.
- be lost; lapse.
- Adj. losing &c. v.; not having &c. 777a.
- shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off;
- dispossessed &c. 789; rid of, quit of; out of pocket.
- lost &c. v.; long lost; irretrievable &c. (hopeless) 859; off one's
- hands.
- Int. farewell to! adieu to.
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- #777. Posession.-- N. possession, seizin, seisin; ownership &c. 780;
- occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency;
- villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service.
- exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention &c.781;
- prepossession, preoccupancy; nine points of the law; corner, usucaption.
- future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee,
- seigniority; primogeniture, ultimogeniture.
- bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession.
- V. possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of &c. adj.; have
- in hand &c. adj.; own &c. 780; command.
- inherit; come to, come in for.
- engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to
- oneself; corner; have a firmhold of &c. (retain) 781; get into one's hand
- &c. (acquire) 775.
- belong to, appertain to, pertain to; be in one's possession &c. adj.;
- vest in.
- Adj. possessing &c. v.; worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, in
- possession of; usucapient; endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught
- with, laden with, charged with.
- possessed &c. v.; on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; in
- one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession; at one's command, at
- one's disposal; one's own &c. (property) 780.
- unsold, unshared.
- Phr. entbehre gern was du nicht hast; meum et tuum; tuum est.
-
- #777a. Exemption.-- N. exemption; absence &c. 187; exception,
- immunity, privilege, release.
- V. not have &c. 777; be without &c. adj.; excuse.
- Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with;
- immune from.
- not having &c. 777; unpossessed; untenanted &c. (vacant) 187; without
- an owner.
- unobtained, unacquired.
-
- #778. [Joint possession.] Participation.-- N. participation;
- cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common,
- tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership;
- communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism,
- socialism; cooperation &c. 709.
- snacks, coportion|, picnic, hotchpot; co-heirship, co-parceny, co-
- parcenary; gavelkind.
- participator, sharer; co-partner, partner; shareholder; co-tenant,
- joint tenant; tenants in common; co-heir, co-parcener.
- communist, socialist.
- V. participate, partake; share, share in; come in for a share; go
- shares, go snacks, go halves; share and share alike.
- have in common, possess in common, be seized in common, have as joint
- tenants, possess as joint tenants, be seized as joint tenants &c. n.
- join in; have a hand in &c. (cooperate) 709.
- Adj. partaking &c. v.; communistic.
- Adv. share and share alike.
-
-
- #779. Possessor.-- N. possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant;
- person in possession, man in possession &c.777; renter, lodger, lessee,
- underlessee; zemindar, ryot; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant
- from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.
- owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator, master,
- mistress, lord.
- land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady; lord of the manor, lord
- paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord; planter.
- cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor.
- grantee, feoffee, releasee, devisee; legatee, legatary.
- trustee; holder &c. of the legal estate; mortgagee.
- right owner, rightful owner.
- [Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress;
- inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner, remainderman.
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-
- #780. Property.-- N. property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum.
- ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority; empire &c. (dominion)
- 737.
- interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure
- &c. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial
- interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable
- estate; seizin, seisin.
- absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple;
- estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in
- tail female, estate in tail general.
- limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular
- estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie; remainder,
- reversion, expectancy, possibility.
- dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, partimony,
- alimony; legacy &c. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.
- assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth &c. 803;
- money &c. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and
- effects.
- landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands;
- tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal
- hereditaments; acres; ground &c. (earth) 342; acquest, messuage, toft.
- territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate,
- sphere of influence.
- manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium
- &c. (free) 748; fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado,
- merestead, ranch.
- free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland; chattels real; fixtures,
- plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.
- personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty,
- chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps,
- rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage &c. 633.
- parcels, appurtenances.
- impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.
- rent roll; income &c. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].
- patent, copyright; chose in action; credit &c. 805; debt &c.806.
- V. possess &c. 777; be the possessor &c. 779 of; own; have for one's
- own, have for one's very own; come in for, inherit.
- savor of the realty.
- be one's property &c. n.; belong to; appertain to, pertain to.
- Adj. one's own; landed, predial, manorial, allodial; free lease-hold,
- copy lease-hold; feudal, feodal.
- Adv. to one's credit, to one's account; to the good.
- to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to
- one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and
- assigns.
-
- #781. Retention.-- N. retention; retaining &c. v.; keep, detention,
- custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip.
- fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum;
- bond &c. (vinculum) 45.
- clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice.
- paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif.
- bird in hand; captive &c.754.
- V. retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast
- one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp,
- gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.
- secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband
- &c. (store) 636; reserve; have in stock, keep in stock &c. (possess) 777;
- entail, tie up, settle.
- Adj. retaining &c. v.; retentive, tenacious.
- unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated.
- incommunicable, inalienable; in mortmain; in strict settlement.
- Phr. uti possidetis.
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- #782. Relinquishment.-- N. relinquishment, abandonment &c. (of a
- course) 624; renunciation, expropriation|!, dereliction; cession,
- surrender, dispensation; resignation &c.757; riddance.
- derelict &c. adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif.
- V. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip;
- spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate|!, give away,
- dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf &c.
- (disuse) 678; set aside, put aside; make away with, cast behind; maroon.
- give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of,
- be quit of, get quit of; eject &c. 297.
- rid oneself of, disburden oneself of, divest oneself of, dispossess
- oneself of; wash one's hands of.
- discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling
- away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw
- overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the
- dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds,
- throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away;
- jettison.
- quit one's hold.
- Adj. relinquished &c. v.; cast off, derelict; unowned, unappropriated,
- unculled; left &c. (residuary) 40.
- Int. away with!
-
- 2. Transfer of Property
-
- #783. Transfer.-- N. transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation,
- abalienation; demise, limitation; conveyancing; transmission &c.
- (transference) 270; enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release;
- exchange &c. (interchange) 148; barter &c. 794; substitution &c. 147.
- succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.
- V. transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant &c. (confer) 784;
- consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down;
- exchange &c.(interchange) 148.
- change hands, change hands from one to another; devolve, succeed; come
- into possession &c. (acquire) 775.
- abalienate; disinherit; dispossess &c. 789; substitute &c. 147.
- Adj. alienable, negotiable.
- Phr. estate coming into possession.
-
- #784. Giving.-- N. giving &c. v.; bestowal, bestowment, donation;
- presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment,
- dispensataion, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award.
- almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity.
- [Thing given] gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift,
- boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation;
- lagniappe [U.S.], pilon [U.S.].
- grace, act of grace, bonus.
- allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention.
- bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary
- settlement, voluntary conveyance &c. 783; amortization.
- alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule|, donative, help, oblation,
- offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box,
- Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld,
- bakshish; fee &c. (recompense) 973; consideration.
- bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle*, graft,
- grease*.
- giver, grantor &c. v.; donor, feoffer, settlor.
- V. deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over,
- deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.
- present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole
- out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.
- pay &c. 807; render, impart, communicate.
- concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend &c. 809.
- give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.
- intrust, consign, vest in.
- make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.
- invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise.
- furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with,
- indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.
- tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer &c. 763;
- sacrifice, immolate.
- Adj. giving &c. v.; given &c. v.; allowed, allowable; concessional;
- communicable; charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary|, tributary; gratis &c.
- 815; donative.
- Phr. auctor pretiosa facit; ex dono; res est ingeniosa dare [Ovid].
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- #785. Receiving.-- N. receiving &c. v.; acquisition &c. 775; reception
- &c. (introduction) 296; suscipiency|!, acceptance, admission.
- recipient, accipient; assignee, devisee; legatee, legatary; grantee,
- feoffee, donee, relessee, lessee; receiver.
- sportulary|, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary; almsman.
- income &c. (receipt) 810.
- V. receive; take &c. 789; acquire &c. 775; admit.
- take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's
- purse; accept; take off one's hands.
- be received; come in, come to hand; pass into one's hand, fall into
- one's hand; go into one's pocket; fall to one's lot, fall to one's share;
- come to one, fall to one; accrue; have given &c. 784 to one.
- Adj. receiving &c. v.; recipient, suscipient|!.
- received &c. v.; given &c. 784; secondhand.
- not given, unbestowed &c. (see give, bestow &c. 784).
-
- #786. Apportionment.-- N. apportionment, allotment, consignment,
- assignment, appointment; appropriation; dispensation, distribution;
- division, deal; repartition, partition; administration.
- dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, lot, measure, dose;
- dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum,
- mess, allowance; suerte.
- V. apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot,
- detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.
- partition, assign, appropriate, appoint.
- come in for one's share &c. (participate) 778.
- Adj. apportioning &c. v.; respective.
- Adv. respectively, each to each.
-
- #787. Lending.-- N. lending &c. v.; loan, advance, accommodation,
- feneration|; mortgage &c. (security) 771; investment.
- mont de piete, pawnshop, my uncle's.
- lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer.
- V. lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn &c.
- (security) 771.
- intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.
- let, demise, lease, sett, underlet.
- Adj. lending &c. v.; lent &c. v.; unborrowed &c. (see borrowed &c.
- 788).
- Adv. in advance; on loan, on security.
-
- #788. Borrowing.-- N. borrowing, pledging.
- borrowed plumes; plagiarism &c. (thieving) 791.
- replevin.
- V. borrow, desume|.
- hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take
- by the mile, take by the year &c., hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire
- by the year &c.; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.
- raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from
- Peter to pay Paul; run into debt &c. (debt) 806.
- replevy.
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- #789. Taking.-- N. taking &c. v.; reception &c. (taking in) 296;
- deglutition &c. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation|;
- capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension|; abreption|, seizure,
- abduction, ablation; subtraction &c. (subduction) 38; abstraction,
- ademption; adrolepsy|!.
- dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment;
- disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction &c.
- 297.
- rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft &c.791.
- resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery &c. 775.
- clutch, swoop, wrench; grip &c. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch;
- scramble.
- taker, captor.
- V. take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket;
- receive; accept.
- reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c. (get) 775; draw.
- appropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession
- of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to;
- make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept;
- scramble for; deprive of.
- take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off;
- adeem|!; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal &c. 791;
- ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by
- storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.
- snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay
- violent hands on.
- get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold
- of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip,
- grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the
- throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.
- catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a
- long arm, stretch forth one's hand.
- take from, take away from; disseize; deduct &c. 38; retrench &c.
- (curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from,
- tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of,
- bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.
- oust &c. (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester,
- sequestrate; accroach; unsurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume,
- impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry,
- exhaust, swallow up; absorb & c. (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood
- of, suck like a leech.
- retake, resume; recover &c. 775.
- Adj. taking &c.v.; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal,
- predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.
- bereft &c. 776.
- Adv. at one fell swoop.
- Phr. give an inch and take an ell.
-
-
- #790. Restitution.-- N. restitution, return; rendition, reddition;
- restoration; reinvestment, recuperation; rehabilitation &c.
- (reconstruction) 660; reparation, atonement; compensation, indemnification.
- release, replevin, redemption; recovery &c. (getting back) 775;
- remitter, reversion.
- V. return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render
- up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup,
- reimburse, compensate, indemnify; reinvest, remit, rehabilitate; repair &c.
- (make good) 660.
- redeem, recover &c. (get back) 775; take back again; revest, revert.
- Adj. restoring &c. v.; recuperative &c. 660.
- Phr. suum cuique.
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- #791. Stealing.-- N. stealing &c. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny|,
- direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism;
- autoplagiarism; latrocinium.
- spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage; rapine, brigandage,
- foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.
- piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of
- marque.
- filibustering, filibusterism; burglary; housebreaking; badger game*.
- robbery, hold-up* [U.S.].
- peculation, embezzlement; fraud &c. 545; larceny, petty larceny,
- shoplifting.
- thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of
- thieves.
- Black Hand [U.S.].
- V. steal, thieve, rob, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim|, crib,
- cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.
- convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off
- with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize &c. (lay violent
- hands on) 789.
- plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate,
- despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer|,
- maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger*; bail up, hold up, stick
- up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.
- swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon,
- fleece; defraud &c.545; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.
- rob Peterto pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to
- catch a thief.
- disregard the distinction between meum and tuum.
- [receive stolen goods] fence, launder, launder money.
- Adj. thieving &c. v.; thievish, light-fingered; furacious, furtive;
- piratical; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial &c.
- (rapacious) 789.
- stolen &c. v.
- Phr. sic vos non vobis.
-
- #792. Thief.-- N. thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer,
- rifler, filcher, plagiarist.
- spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark*, land shark,
- falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin|!, brigand, freebooter, bandit,
- thug, dacoit; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones|!, buccaneer,
- buccanier|!; piqueerer|, pickeerer|; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster;
- rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger*, bunko
- man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, hold-up* [U.S.],
- jackleg* [U.S.], kidnaper, rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin*, sneak
- thief, spieler, strong-arm man [U.S.].
- highwayman,