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.
reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp]; periodicity &c. 138. 
     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

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