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.

     #721.  Peace. —­ N. peace; amity &c. (friendship) 888; harmony &c.
(concord) 714; tranquility, calm &c. (quiescence) 265; truce, peace treaty, accord &c. (pacification) 723; peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.
     piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.
     [symbol of peace] dove of peace, white dove.
     [person who favors peace] dove.
     pax Romana[Lat]; Pax Americana[Lat][obs3]. 
     V. be at peace; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714.
     make peace &c. 723. 
     Adj. pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled,
halcyon; bloodless; neutral.
     dovish
     Phr. the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; “all
quiet on the Potomac”; paritur pax bello [Lat][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[Lat]; bloodshed.
     appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of
battle; ultima ratio regum[Lat], arbitrament of the sword.
     battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization;
state of siege; battlefield, theater of operations &c. (arena) 728; warpath.
     art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation[obs3]; generalship;
soldiership; logistics; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry.
     gunpowder, shot.
     battle, tug of war &c. (contention) 720; service, campaigning, active
service, tented field; kriegspiel[Ger], Kriegsspiel[Ger]; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch[obs3], slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes[Fr].
     war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort[Fr], guerre a
outrance[Fr][obs3]; 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.
     [pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly
roger.
     serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign;

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