V. continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse &c.
109; hold out.
take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time.
pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time,
talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity &c. 134; waste time &c. (be inactive) 683.
Adj. continuing &c. v.; on foot; permanent &c. (durable) 110.
Adv. while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the
interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite[Lat]; de die in diem[Lat]; from day to day, from hour to hour &c.; hourly, always; for a time, for a season;
till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto,
heretofore, prior to this, up to this point.
the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout &c. (completely)
52; for good &c. (diuturnity)[obs3] 110.
hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante
Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae[Lat]; A.U.C.; anno regni[Lat]; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once.
Phr. time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs
against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, “time and tide wait for no man”.
ad calendas Groecas[Lat]; “panting Time toileth after him in vain”
[Johnson]; “’gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion” [Measure for Measure]; “rich with the spoils of time” [Gray]; tempus edax rerum [Lat][Horace]; “the long hours come and go” [C.G. Rossetti]; “the time is out of joint” [Hamlet]; “Time rolls his ceaseless course” [Scott]; “Time the foe of man’s dominion” [Peacock]; “time wasted is existence, used is life” [Young]; truditur dies die [Lat][Horace]; volat hora per orbem [Lat][Lucretius]; carpe diem[Lat].
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#107. Neverness.
— N. “neverness”; absence of
time, no time; dies
non; Tib’s eve; Greek Kalends, a blue moon.
Adv. never, ne’er[contr];
at no time, at no period; on the second
Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over; on no
occasion, never in all one’s born days, nevermore,
sine die; in no degree.
#108. [Definite duration,
or portion of time.] Period. — N. period,
age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month,
quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum[obs3], quinquennium,
lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry[obs3], lunation[obs3],
moon.
century, millennium;
annus magnus[Lat].
Adj. horary[obs3]; hourly,
annual &c. (periodical) 138.
#108a. Contingent Duration.— Adv. during pleasure, during good behavior; quamdiu se bene gesserit[Latin].


