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.
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[obs3]; communicable; charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary|, tributary; gratis &c. 815; donative[obs3]. 
     Phr. auctor pretiosa facit[Lat]; ex dono[Lat]; res est ingeniosa dare
[Lat][Ovid].

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     #785.  Receiving.—­ N. receiving &c. v.; acquisition &c. 775; reception
&c. (introduction) 296; suscipiency|!, acceptance, admission.
     recipient, accipient[obs3]; assignee, devisee; legatee,
legatary[obs3]; grantee, feoffee[obs3], donee[Fr], releasee[Law], relessee[obs3], lessee; receiver.
     sportulary|, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary[obs3];
almsman[obs3].
     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, fair share,
allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte[obs3]. 
     V. apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot,
detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.
     allocate, ration, ration out; assign; separate &c. 44.
     partition, assign, appropriate, appoint.
     come in for one’s share &c. (participate) 778. 
     Adj. apportioning &c. v.; respective. 
     Adv. respectively, each to each.

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