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.
a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.
     recast &c. 146; reverse &c. 218; disturb &c. 61; convert into &c. 144. 
     Adj. changed &c. v.; newfangled; changeable &c. 149; transitional;
modifiable; alterative. 
     Adv. mutatis mutandis[Lat]. 
     Int. quantum mutatus[Lat]! 
     Phr. “a change came o’er the spirit of my dream” [Byron]; nous avons
change tout cela [Fr][Moliere]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis[Lat][obs3]; non sum qualis eram [Lat][Horace]; casaque tourner[Fr]; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Lat][obs3][Tacitus]; in statu quo ante bellum[Lat]; “still ending and beginning still” [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet[Lat].

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     #141. [Absence of change.] Permanence. —­ N. stability &c. 150;
quiescence &c. 265; obstinacy &c. 606.
     permanence, persistence, endurance; durability; standing, status quo;
maintenance, preservation, conservation; conservation; law of the Medes and Persians; standing dish. 
     V. let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest;
stet [copy editing]; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby[obs3], dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one’s ground, keep one’s ground, hold one’s footing, keep one’s footing; hold good. 
     Adj. stable &c. 150; persisting &c. v.; permanent; established;
unchanged &c. (change &c. 140); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous, uncheckered[obs3]; unfailing.
     undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed[obs3]; conservative, qualis ab
incepto[Lat]; prescriptive &c. (old) 124; stationary &c. 265. 
     Adv. in statu quo[Lat]; for good, finally; at a stand, at a
standstill; uti possidetis[Lat]; without a shadow of turning. 
     Phr. esto perpetua[Lat]; nolumus leges Angliae mutari[Lat][obs3]; j’y
suis et j’y ereste[Fr].

     #142. [Change from action to rest.] Cessation. —­ N. cessation,
discontinuance, desistance, desinence[obs3].
     intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop;
stopping &c. v.; closure, stoppage, halt; arrival &c. 292. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S. congress].
     dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado[Sp]; blowout,
burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end &c. 67; death &c. 360. 
     V. cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold,
stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.
     have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up &c.
(relinquish) 624.
     hold one’s hand, stay one’s hand; rest on one’s oars repose on one’s
laurels.
     come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a
full stop; arrive &c. 292; go out, die away; wear

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