Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

—­ p. 183 —­ % CLASS V WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS

Division (I) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION

Section I. VOLITION IN GENERAL

1.  Acts of Volition %

     #600.  Will. —­ N. will, volition, conation[obs3], velleity; liberum
arbitrium[Lat]; will and pleasure, free will; freedom &c. 748; discretion; option &c. (choice) 609; voluntariness[obs3]; 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[obs3], volitive[obs3].
     minded &c. (willing) 602; prepense &c. (predetermined) 611[obs3];
intended &c. 620; autocratic; unbidden &c. (bid &c. 741); spontaneous; original &c. (casual) 153; unconstrained. 
     Adv. voluntarily &c. adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte[Fr], a
discretion; al piacere[It]; ad libitum, ad arbitrium[Lat]; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito[It].
     of one’s won accord, of one’s own free will; proprio motu[Lat], suo
motu[Lat], ex meromotu[Lat]; out of one’s won head; by choice &c. 609; purposely &c. (intentionally) 620; deliberately &c. 611. 
     Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas[Lat]; sic volo sic jubeo[Lat]; a vostro
beneplacito[It]; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere[Lat]; Deus vult[Lat]; was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden[Ger].

     #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, kismet, 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[Fr]; pis aller &c.
(substitute) 147[Fr]; necessaries &c. (requirement)

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