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.
make good; substantiate; vindicate a claim, vindicate a right; fit for, qualify for; make out a case.
     give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize &c. 760; sanctify,
legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot.
     give every one his due &c. 922; pay one’s dues; have one’s due, have
one’s rights.
     use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution. 
     Adj. having a right to &c. v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving,
meriting, worthy of.
     privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained,
prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible[obs3], inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.
     allowable &c. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal;
legalized &c. (law) 963.
     square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c. 922; due, en r
gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles[Fr]. 
     Adv. duly, ex officio, de jure[Lat]; by right, by divine right; jure
divino[Lat], Dei gratia[Lat], in the name of. 
     Phr. civis Romanus sum [Lat][Cicero];  chaque saint sa chandelle[Fr].

     #925. [Absence of right.] Undueness. —­ N. undueness &c. adj.; malum
prohibitum[Lat]; impropriety; illegality &c. 964.
     falseness &c. adj.; emptiness of title, invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
     loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture.
     usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption,
assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion’s share.
     usurper, pretender. 
     V. be undue &c. adj.; not be due &c. 924.
     infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself;
give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to.
     disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate.
     relax &c. (be lax) 738; misbehave &c. (vice) 945; misbecome[obs3]. 
     Adj. undue; unlawful &c. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit;
unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed[obs3], unsanctioned, unjustified; unentitled[obs3], disentitled, unqualified, disqualified; unprivileged, unchartered.
     illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false; usurped.
     tortious [Law].
     undeserved, unmerited, unearned; unfulfilled.
     forfeited, disfranchised.
     improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming,
misbecoming[obs3]; seemless[obs3]; contra bonos mores[Lat]; not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be. 
     Phr. filius nullius.

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