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#583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering. -- N. inarticulateness;
stammering &c. v.; hesitation &c. v.; impediment in one's speech;
titubancy, traulism|; whisper &c. (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl,
tardiloquence; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c. (want of
voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
brogue &c. 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae
V. stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate|,
balbucinate|, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.
mumble, mutter; maud|, mauder; whisper &c. 405; mince, lisp; jabber,
gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick,
speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's wordds; murder the language,
murder the King's (or Queen's) English; mispronounce, missay.
Adj. stammering &c. v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous;
affected.
Adv. sotto voce &c. (faintly) 405.

#584. Loquacity. -- N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c.
adj.; garrulity; multiloquence, much speaking.
jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle,
twattle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble,
gibble-gabble; small talk &c. (converse) 588.
fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words;.flux
de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor
loquendi; verbosity &c. (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab &c. (eloquence)
582.
talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler &c. v.; rattle; ranter;
sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite [U. S.]; gossip &c. (converse)
588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles..
V. be loquacious &c. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate,
palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter,
blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattlle; babble, gabble; outtalk;
talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hourse; exxpatiate &c. (speak at
length) 573; gossip &c. (converse) 588; din in the ears &c. (repeat) 104;
talk at random, talk nonsense &c. 497; be hoarse with talking.
Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious|, multiloquous;
largiloquent|; chattering &c. v.; chatty &c. (sociable) 892; declamatory
&c. 582; open-mouthed.
fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded &c.
(diffuse) 573.
Adv. trippingly on the tongue; glibly &c. adj.; off the reel.
Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue
running on wheels; all talk and no cider; "foul whisperings are abroad"
[Macbeth]; "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!" [Tempest].

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#585. Taciturnity. -- N. silence, muteness, obmutescence; taciturnity,
pauciloquy, costiveness|, curtness; reserve, reticence &c. (concealment)
528.
man of few words.
V. be silent &c. adj .; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tonue, hold
one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak. &c. 582; say nothing, keep one's
counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips,
put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on
one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth;
make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret &c. 528; not have a
word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on
the lips; render mute &c. 581.
stick in one's throat.
Adj. silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as
the grave &c. (still) 403; dumb &c. 581; unconversable.
taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive|, inconversable|,
curt; reserved; reticent &c. (concealing) 528.
Int. shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the
word; keep your mouth shut![vulgar].
Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui; volto sciollo i pensieri stretti.

#586. Allocution. -- N. allocution, alloquy|, address; speech &c. 582;
apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the
ear.
[Feigned dialogue] *dialogism.
platform &c. 542; plank; audience &c. (interview) 588.
V. speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to,
invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo.
take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.
lecture &c. (make a speech) 582.
Int. soho! halloo! hey! hist!
587. Response &c., see Answer 462.

#588. Interlocution. -- N. interlocution; collocution, colloquy,
converse, conversation, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse;
oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.
causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town
talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble,
babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the
town, talk of the village.
conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete;
reception, conversazione; congress &c. (council) 696; powwow [U. S.].
hall of audience, durbar.
palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words.
gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c. (loquacity) 584;
interlocutor &c. (spokesman) 582; conversationist, dialogist.
"the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope); mollia tempora
fandi.
V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry
on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in
a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip,
tattle; prate &c. (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.]..
discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold
converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted
with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.
Adj. conversing &c. v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable;
discursive, discoursive; chatty &c. (sociable) 892; colloquial.
Phr. "with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost].

#589. Soliloquy. -- N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology.
V. Soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think
aloud, aapostrophize.
Adj. soliloquizing &c. v.
Adv. aside.

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3. Written Language

#590. Writing. -- N. writing &c. v.; chirography, stelography,
cerography; penmanship, craftmanship; quill driving; typewriting.
writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae; these presents.
stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline;
pen and ink.
letter &c. 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham,
Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari; script.
shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy; secret writing,
writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography, pasigraphy,
Polygraphy, logography.
copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting;
signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.
calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand,
legible hand, bold hand.
cacography, griffonage, barbouillage; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed
hand, illegible hand; scribble &c. v.; pattes de mouche; ill-formed
letters; pothooks and hangers.
stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap,
parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table;
blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.
transcription &c. (copy) 21; inscription &c. (record) 551;
superscription &c. (indication) 550; graphology.
composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi; graphoidea,
graphomania; phrenoia.
writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman,
copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist;
writer for the press &c. (author) 593.
V. write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe;
scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down &c.
(record) 551; sign &c. (attest) 467; enface.
compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw
on paper, dash off; manifold.
take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in
ink.
Adj. writing &c. v.; written &c. v.; in writing, in black and white;
under one's hand.
uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical.
Adv. currente calamo; pen in hand.
Phr. audacter et sincere; le style est l'homme meme; "nature's noblest
gift - my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium
et *ons [Horace]; "that mighty instrument of little men" *[Byron]; "the pen
became a clarion" (Longfellow].

#591. Printing. -- N. printing; block printing, type- printing; plate
printing &c. [engraving] 558; the press &c. (publication) 531; composition.
print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.
typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype; type, black letter,
font, fount; pi, pie; capitals &c. (letters) 561; brevier, bourgeois, pica
&c.
boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room,
composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification,
linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix,
matter, monotype, point system: 41/2, 5, 51/2, 6, 7, 8 point, etc.; press
room, press work; reglet, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif,
shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.
folio &c. (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's
proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.
printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil copyholder.
V. print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press,
see through the press; publish &c. 531; bring out; appear in print, rush
into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.
Adj. printed &c. v.; in type; typographical &c. n.; solid in galleys.

#592. Correspondence. -- N. correpondence, letter, epistle, note,
billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty,
letter card, picture post card; postal [U.S.], card; despatch; dispatch;
bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post &c. (messenger) 534.
V. correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a
correspondence.
Adj. epistolary.
Phr. furor scribendi.

#593. Book. -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule;
tract, tractate; livret; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual,
pamphjlet, enchiridion, circular, publication; chap book.
part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial,
magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire,
ream
chapter, section head, article paragraph, passage, clause.
folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo.
encyclopedia; encompilation; library, bibliotheca; press &c.
(publication) 531.
writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism; pen, scribbler, the
scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street writer; writerr for the press,
gentleman of the press, representative of the press; adjective jerker,
diaskeaus, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a
liner; editor, subeditor; playwright &c. 599; powt &c. 597.
bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c. (knowledge) 490.
Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez
tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope]; "I
lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and write"
[Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer Lytton);
"the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; volumes
that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest].

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#594. Description. -- N. description, account, statement, report;
expose &c. (disclosure) 529 specification, particulars; state of facts,
summary of facts; brief &c. (abstract) 596; return &c. (record) 551;
catalogue raisonne &c. (list) 86; guidebook &c. (information) 527.
delineation &c (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute
account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic
account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.
historiography, chronography; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography,
autobiograpby; necrology, obituary.
narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c. (chronicle) 551;
saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette; personal narrative,
journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote,
ana, trait.
work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery
tale; fable, parable, apologue; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling
shocker
relator &c. v.; raconteur, historian &c. (recorder) 553; biographer,
fabulist, novelist.
V. describe; set forth &c. (state) 535; draw a picture, picture;
portray &c. (represent) 554; characterize, particularize; narrate, relate,
recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's
battles over again.
unfold a tale &c. (disclose) 529 ; tell; give an account of, render an
account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement.
detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to
particulars , descend to details,; itemize.
Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn;
historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic, storied;
described &c. v.
Phr. furor scribendi.

#595. Dissertation. -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis,
theme; tractate, tractation; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture,
sermon, homily, pandect; excursus.
commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading
article; editorial; running commentary.
investigation &c. (inquiry) 461; study &c. (consideration) 451;
discussion &c. (reasoning) 476; exposition &c. (explanation) 522.
commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer.
V. dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a
subject, touch upon a subject; treat of a subject, take up a subject,
ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a
subject, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.
Adj. discursive, discoursive; disquisitionary; expository.

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#596. Compendium. -- N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis,
epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance,
brief, abridgment, summary, apergu, draft, minute, note; excerpt; synopsis,
textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus.
album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book;
extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing;
spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation.
recapitulation, resume, review.
abbreviation, abbreviature; contraction; shortening &c. 201;
compression &c. 195.
V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare
an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c. n.
recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.
abbreviate &c. (shorten) 201; condense &c. (compress) 195; compile &c.
(collect) 72.
Adj. compendious, synoptic, analectic; abrege, abridged &c. v.;
variorum.
Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words.
Phr. it lies in a nutshell.

#597. Poetry. -- N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful
Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring.
versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry.
poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoca, ode, epode, idyl, lyric,
eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay,
rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, *monody, elegy; amoebeaum,
ghazal, palinode.
dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra
poetae
song, ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song;
lullaby; music &c. 415; nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad; macaronics;
macaronic verse, leonine verse; runes.
canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain;
strophe, antistrophe.
verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers,
strain, rhythm; accentuation &c. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee,
anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast,
blank verse, ictus.
elegiacs &c. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour,
trouvere; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger; improvisatore; versifier,
sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist, rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster;
genus genus irrittaabile vatum.
V. poetize, sing, versity, make verses, rhyme, scan.
Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c.
n.; metrical; a catalectin; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic;
amoebeeic, Melibean, skaldic; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith); Dichtung und
Wahrheit; furor poeticus; "his virtues formed the magic of his song"
[Hayley]; "I do but sing because I must" [Tennyson]; "I learnt life from
the poets" [de Stael]; licentia vatum; mutum est pictura poema; "O for a
muse of fire!" [Henry V]; "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge'
[Sidney]; "the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter
und Deker; "wisdom married to immortal verse" [Wordsworth].

#598. Prose. -- N. prose, prose writer. prosaicism, prosaism,
prosaist, proser.
V. prose.
write prose, write in prose.
Adj. prosal,prosy, prosaic; unpoetical.
rhymeless, unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.

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#599. The Drama. -- N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play;
film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography;
theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene
and Thalia, Thespis.
play, drama, stageplay, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera,
vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode,
farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime,
burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame;
melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy,
farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs;
mystery, miracle play.
[movies] western, horse opera; flick [coll.]; spy film, love story,
adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin
flick, X-rated film.
act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue;
libretto.
performance, representation, mise en scene, stagery, jeu de theatre;
acting; gesture &c. 550; impersonation &c. 554; stage business, gag,
buffoonery.
theater; playhouse, operahouse; house; music hall; amphitheater,
circus, hippodrome; puppet show, fantoccini; marionettes, Punch and Judy.
auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery,
parquet; greenroom, coulisses.
flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation
scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium.
stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies;
floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.
theatrical costume, theatrical properties.
movie studio, back lot, on location.
part, role, character, dramatis personae; repertoire.
actor, player; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer;
mime, mimer; artists; comedian tragedian; tragedienne, Thespian, Roscius;
star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol;
supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter *; masker. pantomimist,
clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine;
punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo
appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumernry.
mummer, guiser, guisard, gysart |, masque.
mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat;
contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee
danseuse.
company; first tragedian, prima donna, prottagonist; jeune premier;
debutant, debutante; light comedian, genteel comedian, low commedian, light
comedy, genteel comedy, low commedy; walking gentleman, amoroso, heaavy
father, ingenue, jeune veuve
property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager;
director, stage manager, acting manager; producer, entrepreneur,
impresario.
dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist,
mimographer.
V. act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate &c. 554; mimic &c.
(imitate) 19; enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a
part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage";
tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.
Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic,
tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.
Adv. on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before
an audience; behind the scenes.
Phr. fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Petronius Arbiter]; "suit
the action to the word, the word to the action" [Hamlet]; "the play's the
thing" [Hamlet]; "to wake the soul by tender strokes of art" [Pope].
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CLASS V
WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS1

Division (1) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION

Section I. VOLITION IN GENERAL

1. Acts of Volition


#600. Will. -- N.will, volition, conation, velleity; liberum
arbitrium; will and pleasure, free will; freedom &c. 748; discretion;
option &c. (choice) 609; voluntariness; spontaneity, spontaneousness;
originality.
pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind &c. (inclination) 602;
intention &c. 620; predetermination &c. 611; selfcontrol &c. determination
&c. (resolution) 604; force of will.
V. will, list; see fit, think fit; determine &c. (resolve) 604;
enjoin; settle &c. (choose) 609; volunteer.
have a will of one's own; do what one chooses &c. (freedom) 748; have
it all.one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way.
use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take
one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own
accord, do upon one;s own authority; originate &c. (cause) 153.
Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free &c. 748; optional;
discretional, discretionary; volitient, volitive.
minded &c. (willing) 602; prepense &c. (predetermined) 611; intended
&c. 620; autocratic; unbidden &c. (bid &c. 741); spontaieous; original &c.
(casual) 153; unconstrained.
Adv. voluntarily &c. adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a
discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as
it seems good to; a beneplacito.
of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu,
ex meromotu; out of one's won head; by choice &c. 609; purposely &c.
(intentionally) 620; deliberately &c. 611.
Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas; sic volo sic jubeo; a vostro
beneplacito; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere; Deus vull; was man
nicht kann meiden muss man wilig leiden.

#601. Necessity. -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse;
inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency;
natural impulse, predetermination.
necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c. 744; subjection
&c. 749; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious
necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate;
what must be.
destiny, destination; fatality, fate, dismet, doom, foredoom,
election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune;
fatalism; inevitableness &c. adj.; spell &c. 993.
star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae,
Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune,
Ides of March, Hobson's choice.
last shift, last resort; dernier ressort; pis aller &c. (stubstitute)
147; necessaries &c. (requirement) 630.
necessarian, necessitarian; fatalist; automaton.
V. lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined &c. in for,
under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate
&c. n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to
help.
destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell
&c. 992; necessitate; compel &c. 744.
Adj. necessary, needful &c (requisit) 630.
fated; destined &c. v.; elect; spellbound
compulsory &c. (compel) 744; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable,
irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless, resistless.
involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious,
unwitting, unthinking; unintentional &c. (undesigned) 621; impuslive &c.
612.
Adv. necessarily &c. adv.; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate
rei; needs must; perforce &c. 744; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy
nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute.
faute de mieux; by stress of; if need be.
Phr. it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping
it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its
way; the die is cast; jacta est alea; che sara sara; "it is written"; one's
days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata obstant; diis aliter gvisum;
actum me invito factus, non est meus actus; aujord'hui roi demain rien;
quisque suos patimur manes [Vergil].

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