V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp
upon, battologize[obs3], hammer, redouble.
recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse [Comp]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], repetitionary[obs3];
recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant, pleonastic.
monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive [Math, Comp], unvaried;
mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed[obs3]; 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[obs3], da capo[It].
again and again; over and over, over and over again; recursively
[Comp]; 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[Lat]; toujours perdrix[Fr]; “cut and come
again” [Crabbe]; “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” [Macbeth]; cantilenam eandem canis [Lat][Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius [Lat][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[obs3],
measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable,
illimitable, inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable,
unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite; without number,
without measure, without limit, without end; incomprehensible;
limitless, endless, boundless, termless[obs3]; untold,
unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited[obs3];
perpetual &c. 112.
Adv. infinitely &c.
adj.; ad infinitum.
Phr. “as boundless
as the sea” [Romeo and Juliet].
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#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[obs3];
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


