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.
     V. happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off,
comeabout[obs3], come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance[obs3]; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene[obs3]; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off &c. (be past) 122.
     meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass
through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one’s chance, be one’s fortune, be one’s lot; find; endure &c. (feel) 821. 
     Adj. happening &c. v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the
air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis[obs3]; at issue, in question; incidental.
     eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous,
signal. 
     Adv. eventually; in the event of, in case, just in case; in the course
of things; as things, times go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls, cat jumps; as it may turn out, happen. 
     Phr. that’s the way the ball bounces, that’s the way the cookie
crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; “breasts the blows of circumstance” [Tennyson]; “so runs round of life from hour to hour” “sprinkled along the waste of years” [Tennyson][Keble].

% Future Events %

     #152.  Destiny. —­ N. destiny &c. (necessity) 601; future existence,
post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come, after life; futurity &c. 121; everlasting life, everlasting death; life beyond the grave, world beyond the grave; prospect &c. (expectation) 507. 
     V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on,
approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for. 
     Adj. impending &c. v.; destined; about to be, happen; coming, in
store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one’s head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; in the wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect &c. (expected) 507; looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; in the womb of time, futurity; pregnant &c. (producing) 161. 
     Adv. in time, the long run; all in good time; eventually &c. 151;
whatever may happen &c. (certainly) 474; as chance &c. 156 would have it.

% Section VIII.  Causation

1.  Constancy of sequence in events %

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