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.
     Allhallows[obs3], Allhallowmas[obs3], All Saints’ Day; All Souls’, All
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

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