Souls’ Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile[obs3], Candlemas[obs3], Dewali, groundhog day [U.S.], Halloween, Hallowmas[obs3], Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day [U.S.], St. Swithin’s day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide.
punctuality, regularity, steadiness.
V. recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return,
revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit.
Adj. periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical;
recurring &c. v.; intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other.
hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal|,
hebdomadary|; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial|; monthly, menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial, &c.; centennial, secular; paschal, lenten, &c.
regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork.
Adv. periodically &c. adj.; at regular intervals, at stated times; at
fixed established, at established periods; punctually &c. adj. de die in diem[Lat]; from day to day, day by day.
by turns; in turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and
on, ride and tie, round and round.
#139. Irregularity
of recurrence. — N. irregularity, uncertainty,
unpunctuality; fitfulness &c. adj.; capriciousness,
ecrhythmus|.
Adj. irregular, uncertain,
unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful,
flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical[obs3],
unmethodical, variable.
Adv. irregularly &c.
adj.; by fits and starts &c. (discontinuously)
70.
% Section VII. Change
1. Simple change %
#140. [Difference at
different times.] Change. — N. change,
alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification,
modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation,
metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution;
diversion; break.
transformation, transfiguration;
metamorphosis; transmutation;
deoxidization[Chem]; transubstantiation; mutagenesis[Genet],
transanimation[obs3], transmigration, metempsychosis|;
avatar; alterative.
conversion &c. (gradual
change) 144; revolution &c. (sudden or radical
change) 146 inversion &c. (reversal) 218; displacement
&c. 185; transference &c. 270.
changeableness &c. 149;
tergiversation &c. (change of mind)
607.
V. change, alter, vary,
wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify,
tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle,
swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert[obs3];
pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.
work a change, modify,
vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure,
transmute, transmogrify, transume[obs3]; metamorphose,
ring the changes.
innovate, introduce
new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give


