% 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; kinematics;
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[obs3], 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
[It][Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der
Stille[Ger], sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt[Ger].
#265. Quiescence.
— N. rest; stillness &c. adj.; quiescence;
stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy;
indisturbance[obs3]; quietism.
quiet, tranquility,
calm; repose &c. 687; peace; dead calm,
anticyclone|!; statue-like repose; silence &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[Fr];
bivouac; home &c. (abode) 189; pillow &c.
(support) 215; haven &c. (refuge) 666; goal &c. (arrival)
292.
V. be quiescent &c.
adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose,
hold the breath.
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[Lat]; 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


