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SECTION IV. ORDER

1. ORDER

#58. Order. -- N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus
ordo; music of the spheres.
gradation, progression; series &c. (continuity) 69.
subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition,
arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness &c. adj.
rank, place &c. (term) 71.
V. be in order, become in order &c. adj.; form, fall in, draw up;
arrrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's palce, take
one's place, take one's rank; rally round.
adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
Adj. orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in appleinpie order, in its
proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical,
uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused &c.
(see confuse &c. 61); arranged &c. 60.
Adv. in order; methodically &c. adj.; in -turn, - its turn; step by
step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals; seriatim,
systematically, by clockwork, gradatim; at stated periods &c.
(periodically) 138.
Phr. natura non facit saltum; "order is heaven's first law" [Pope];
"order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium dispariumque
rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio [St. Augustine].

#59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c.] Disorder. -- N. disorder;
derangement &c. 61; irregularity; anomaly &c. (unconformity) 83; anarchy,
anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c. adj.; disunion; discord &c. 24.
confusion; confusedness &c. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle,
litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash,
hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum,
medley; mere mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta
membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid].
turmoil; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder, pother,
row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution,
riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row,
ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble;
whirlwind &c. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook
Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors;
Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the
fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece
of work, pretty piece of business.
V. be disorderly &c. adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
put out of order; derange &c. 61; ravel &c. 219; ruffle, rumple.
Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
irregular, desultory; anomalous &c. (unconformable) 83; acephalous,
deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical;
unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts;
promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged &c. (see
arrange &c. 60); confused; deranged &c. 61; topsy-turvy &c. (inverted) 218;
shapeless &c. 241; disjointed, out of joint.
troublous; riotous &c. (violent) 173.
Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a
ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c. 218.
Phr. the cart before the horse; ; chaos is
come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds " [Addison].

#59a. Complexity -- N. complexity; complexness &c. adj.; complexus;
complication, implication; intricacy, intrication; perplexity; network,
labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil &c.
(convolution) 248; sleave, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within
wheels; kink, knarl; webwork.
Adj. knarled. complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed,
involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.

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#60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement. -- N. arrangement; plan &c.
626; preparation &c. 673; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation;
distribution; sorting &c. v.; assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis,
taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation.
analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion.
[Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis &c. (compendium) 596;
syntagma, table, atlas; file, database; register. &c. (record) 551;
organism, architecture.
[Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter.
V. reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally.
arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order;
set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out,
allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of,
assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights,
put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.
class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register &c.
(record) 551; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.
methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix.
unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil; feaze.
Adj. arranged &c. v.; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried;
methodical, orderly, regular, systematic.
Phr. "In vast cumbrous array" [Churchill]

#61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement. -- N.
derangement &c. v.; disorder &c. 59; evection, discomposure, disturbance;
disorganization, deorganization; dislocation; perturbation, interruption;
shufflng &c. v.; inversion &c. 218; corrugation &c. (fold) 258;
involvement.
V. derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay,
discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil,
unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle,
randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into
disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c. 59; muss [U.S.];
break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.
unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.
turn topsy-turvy &c. (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve,
perplex, confound; imbrangle, embrangle, tangle, entangle, ravel, tousle,
towzle, dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c. (fold) 258.
litter, scatter; mix &c. 41.
Adj. deranged &c. v.; syncretic, syncretistic; mussy, messy; flaky;
random, unordered [U.S.].

2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER

#62. Precedence. -- N. precedence; coming before &c. v.; the lead, le
pas; superiority &c. 33; importance &c. 642; antecedence, antecedency;
anteriority &c. (front) 234; precursor &c. 64; priority &c. 116; precession
&c. 280; anteposition; epacme; preference.
V. precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead
the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the
pas; set the fashion &c. (influence) 175; open the ball; take precedence,
have precedence; have the start &c. (get before) 280.
place before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface.
Adj. preceding &c. v.; precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior &c. 116;
before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned;
aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary,
prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory.
Adv. before; in advance &c. (precession) 280.
Phr. seniores priores; prior tempore prior jure.

#63. Sequence. -- N. sequence, coming after; going after &c.
(following) 281; consecution, succession; posteriority &c. 117.
continuation; order of succession; successiveness; paracme.
secondariness; subordinancy &c. (inferiority) 34.
afterbirth, afterburden; placenta, secundines.
V. succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into
the shoes of; alternate.
place after, suffix, append.
Adj. succeeding &c.v.; sequent; subsequent, consequent, sequacious,
proximate, next; consecutive &c. (continuity) 69; alternate, amoebean.
latter; posterior &c. 117.
Adv. after, subsequently; behind &c. (rear) 235.

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#64. Precursor. -- N. precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor;
forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome|, prodromos,
prodromus, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding;
dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper,
stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker.
prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos,
protasis, proemium, prolusion, proem, prolepsis, prolegomena, prefix,
introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork; preparation &c. 673;
overture, exordium, symphony; premises.
prefigurement &c. 511; omen &c. 512.
Adj. precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious; proemial,
introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary; precedent &c.
(prior) 116.
Phr. "a precedent embalms a principle" [Disraeli].

#65. Sequel. -- N. sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train,
wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue;
peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece,
heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon.
aftercome, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterpiece, aftercourse,
afterthought, aftergame; arrier pensee, second thoughts; outgrowth.

#66. Beginning.-- N. beginning, commencement, opening, outset,
incipience, inception, inchoation; introduction &c. (precursor) 64; alpha,
initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the
curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative, move, first
move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh start, new
departure.
origin &c. (cause) 153; source, rise; bud, germ &c. 153; egg,
rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start,
inception, creation, starting point &c. 293; dawn &c. (morning) 125;
evolution.
title-page; head, heading; van &c. (front)
234; caption, fatihah.
entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal,
portico, propylon, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold,
vestibule; propylaeum; skirts, border &c. (edge) 231.
first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight.
rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC.
V. begin, commence, inchoate rise, arise, originate, conceive,
initiate, open, dawn, set in, take its rise, enter upon, enter; set out &c.
(depart) 293; embark in; incept.
usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative;
inaugurate, head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the
foundations &c. (prepare) 673; found &c. (cause) 153; set up, set on foot,
agoing, set abroach, set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train;
launch, broach; open up, open the door to; set about, set to work; make a
beginning, make a start; handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone,
cut the first turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the
Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air;
undertake &c. 676.
come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take
birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, crop up, pop up, appear,
materialize.
begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo, begin again, begin de novo;
start afresh, make a fresh start, shuffle the cards, resume, recommence.
Adj. beginning &c. v.; initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive,
introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative;
embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial &c.
(old) 124; aboriginal; natal, nascent.
first, foremost, leading; maiden.
begun &c. v.; just begun &c. v.
Adv. at the beginning, in the beginning, &c. n.; first, in the first
place, imprimis, first and foremost; in limine; in the bud, in embryo, in
its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio, ab ovo, ab
incunabilis, ab origine.
Phr. aller Anfang ist schwer; dimidium facti qui coepit habet
[Cicero]; omnium rerum principia parva sunt [Cicero].

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#67. End. -- N. end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis,
finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity;
gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail &c. (rear) 235; verge
&c. (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end,
rear guard.
consummation, denouement; finish &c. (completion) 729; fate; doom,
doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain;
goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction,
extermination; death &c. 360; end of all things; finality; eschatology.
break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de
grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager* [U.S.].
V. end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die
&c. 360; come-, draw- to a -close &c. n.; have run its course; run out,
pass away. bring to an -end &c. n.; put an end to, make an end of;
determine; get through; achieve &c. (complete) 729; stop &c. (make to
cease) 142; shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.
Adj. ending &c. v.; final, terminal, definitive; crowning &c.
(completing) 729; last, ultimate; hindermost; rear &c. 235; caudal;
vergent.
conterminate, conterminous, conterminable.
ended &c. v.; at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at
rest; conclusive. penultimate; last but one, last but two, &c. unbegun,
uncommenced; fresh.
Adv. finally &c. adj.; in fine; at the last; once for all.
Phr. "as high as Heaven and as deep as hell" [Beaumont & Fletcher];
deficit omne quod nascitur [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut considerer
la fin; finem respice; ultimus Romanorum.

#68. Middle. -- N. middle, midst, mediety|, mean &c. 29; medium,
middle term; center &c. 222, mid-course &c. 628; mezzo termine; juste
milieu &c. 628; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos; nucleus, nucleolus.
equidistance, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff;
intermediate &c. 228.
Adj. middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average; middlemost,
midmost; mediate; intermediate &c. (interjacent) 228; equidistant; central
&c. 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.
Adv. in the middle; midway, halfway; midships, amidships, in medias
res.

#69. [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity. -- N. continuity;
consecution, consecutiveness &c. adj.; succession, round, suite,
progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale;
gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line
of battle, array.
pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house;
line, line of ancestors; strain.
rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit;
colonnade.
V. follow in a series, form a series &c. n.; fall in.
arrange in a series, collate &c. n.; string together, file, thread,
graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial,
successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c.
n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting; perennial, evergreen;
constant.
Adv. continuously &c. adj.; seriatim; in a line &c. n.; in succession,
in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch; in file,
in column, in single file, in Indian file.

#70. [Interrupted sequence.) Discontinuity.-- N. discontinuity;
disjunction &c. 44; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw,
fault, crack, cut; gap &c. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura;
broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission;
alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.
V. be discontinuous &c. adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and
start, hesitate.
discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break
off; interpose &c. 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c.
(disjoin) 44; dissever.
Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu;
disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disunctive; fitful &c. (irregular)
139; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional &c. v., intermittent;
alternate; recurrent &c. (periodic) 138.
Adv. at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by
fits and starts; skippingly, per saltum; longo intervallo.
Phr. like "angel visits few and far between" [Campbell].

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#71. Term. -- N. term, rank, station, stage, step; degree &c. 26;
scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position,
place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.
V. hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place &c.
n.

3. COLLECTIVE ORDER

#72. Assemblage. -- N. {opp. 73} assemblage; collection, collocation,
colligation; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster,
attroupement; team; concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration|,
convergence &c. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home;
conversazione &c. (social gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention,
conventicle; gemote; conclave &c. (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus;
Noah's ark.
miscellany, collectanea; museum, menagerie &c. (store) 636; museology.
crowd, throng, group,; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press,
crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party;
swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive,
force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy; corps,
company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c. (combatants) 726;
host &c. (multitude) 102; populousness.
clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c. (party) 712.
volley, shower, storm, cloud.
group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack;
budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine,
fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel,
stack, sheaf, haycock; fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock,
stook.
accumulation &c. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau,
tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation,
cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration,
conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation,
concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of
Calcutta; quantity &c. (greatness) 31.
collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.
V. [be or come together] assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join,
rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng,
associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center
round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together;
forgather; huddle; reassemble.
[get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get
together, put together, drawtogether, scrape together, lump together;
collect, collocate, colligate; get , whip in; gather; hold a meeting;
convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put
up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup,
concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass,
accumulate &c. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.
Adj. assembled &c. v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to
suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap,
fasciculated cumulative.
Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim; tibi seris tibi metis.

#73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion. -- N. {opp. 72} dispersion;
disjunction &c. 44; divergence &c. 291; aspersion; scattering &c. v.;
dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c. 786;
spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion.
waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra, [Hor.]; waveson.
V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed,
spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember,
distribute; apportion &c. 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth,
draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal
out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.
turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds;.
spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.
Adj. unassembled &c. (see assemble &c. 72); dispersed &c. v.; sparse,
dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c. (general) 78;
adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.
Adv. sparsim, here and there, passim.

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#74. [Place of meeting.] Focus. -- N. focus; point of convergence &c.
290; corradiation; center &c. 222; gathering place, resort haunt retreat;
venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot &c.
(store) 636; trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place of
assignation; point de reunion; issue.
V. bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.

4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER

#75. Class. - N. class, division, category, categorema, head, order,
section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.
kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race,
tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset;
assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.
manner, description, denomination, designation, character, stamp
predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.
similarity &c. 17.

#76. Inclusion. [Comprehension under, or reference to a class.] -- N.
inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception.
composition &c. (inclusion in a compound) 54.
V. be -included in &c.; come -, fall -, range- under; belong -,
pertain- to; range with; merge in.
include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive;
inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; embody, encircle.
reckon -, enumerate -, number- among; refer to; place -, arrange- -
under, - with; take into account.
Adj. included, -ing &c. v.; inclusive; congen-er, -erous; of the same
-class &c. 75; encircling.
Phr. a maximis ad minima, et hoc genus omne, &c., etc.; et coetera.

#77. Exclusion. -- N. [The same set of words is used to express
exclusion from a class and exclusion from a compound. Reference is
therefore made to the former at 55. This identity does not occur with
regard to inclusion, which therefore constitutes a separate category.]
exclusion &c. 55.

#78. Generality. -- N. generality, generalization; universality;
catholicity, catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness; dragnet; common
run; worldwideness.
everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N
or M, all sorts.
prevalence, run.
V. be general &c. adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.
render general &c. adj.; generalize.
Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping;
encyclopedical, widespread &c. (dispersed) 73.
universal; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide; , ecumenical,
oecumenical; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic,
besetting; all over, covered with.
Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic;
panharmonic.
every, all; unspecified, impersonal.
customary &c. (habitual) 613.
Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.
generally &c. adj.; always, for better for worse; in general,
generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run
&c. (on an average) 29.

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#79. Speciality. -- N. {opp. 78} speciality, specialite;
individuality, individuity|; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c.
(tendency) 176; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy;
specificness &c. adj.; singularity &c. (unconformity) 83; reading, version,
lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.
particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae.
I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself.
V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize,
designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.
descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the
point.
Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal,
original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain,
esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several,
characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular &c. (exceptional) 83;
idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.
this, that; yon, yonder.
Adv. specially, especially, particularly &c. adj.; in particular,
in propria persona; ad hominem; for my part.
each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each
to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in
mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice, pro re nata.
namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e.g.,
i.e.,videlicet, viz.; to wit.
Phr. le style est l'homme meme.