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be hungry &c. adj.; have a good appetite, play a good knife and fork;
hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker
after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.
desiderate; sigh for, cry for, gape for, gasp for, pine for, pant for,
languish for, yearn for, long, be on thorns for, hope for; aspire after;
catch at, grasp at, jump at.
woo, court, solicit; fish for, spell for, whistle for, put up for;
ogle.
cause desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke
desire; whet the appetite; appetize, titillate, allure, attract, take one's
fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement; tantalize, make
one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la. bouche.
gratify desire &c. (give pleasure) 829.
Adj. desirous; desiring &c. v.; inclined &c. (willing) 602; partial
to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for,
sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharpset, peckish, ravening, with an
empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst,
pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as
a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse.
greedy, greedy as a hog; overeager, voracious; ravenous, ravenous as
a wolf; openmouthed, covetous, rapacious, grasping, extortionate, exacting,
sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless;
omnivorous.
unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked.
eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog;
breathless; impatient &c. (impetuous) 825; bent on, intent on, set on, bent
upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured
by desire.
aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.
desirable; desired &c. v.; in demand; pleasing &c. (giving pleasure)
829; appetizing, appetible; tantalizing.
Adv. wistfully &c. adj.; fain.
Int. would that, would that it were! O for! esto perpetual
Phr. the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique voluptas; hoc
erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut
nullus.


"Cassius has a lean and hungry look" [Jul. Caesarl; " hungry as the
grave " [Thomson]; " I was born to other things " [Tennyson]; not what we
wish but what we want " [Merrick]; " such joy ambition finds " [P. L.]; "
the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none [Venus and Adonis]; ubi mel
ibi apes.


#866. Indifference. -- N. indifference, neutrality; coldness &c. adj.;
anaphrodisia; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want
of earnestness; anorexy, anorexia, inappetency; apathy &c. (insensibility)
823; supineness &c. (inactivity) 683; disdain &c. 930; recklessness &c.
863; inattention &c. 458.
anaphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac; lust-quencher, passion-queller.
V. be indifferent &c. adj.; stand neuter; take no interest in &c.
(insensibility) 823; have no desire for &c. 865,have no taste for, have no
relish for; not care for; care nothing for, care nothing about; not care a
straw about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about &c. (unimportance)
643; not mind.
set at naught &c. (make light of) 483; spurn &c. (disdain) 930.
Adj. indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber;
unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may-
care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious,
unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted.
unattractive, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for,
unwished, unvalued, all one to.
insipid &c. 391; vain.
Adv. for aught one cares.
Int. never mind.

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#867. Dislike. -- N. dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination,
displacency.
reluctance; backwardness &c. (unwillingness) 603.
repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness,
aversation|, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal
antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred,
detestation; hate &c. 898; animosity &c. 900; hydrophobia; canine madness;
byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood &c. (unsavory) 395;
shuddering, cold sweat.
V. mislike misrelish, dislike disrelish; mind, object to; have rather
not, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a
dislike for, take a dislike to, have an aversion to; have no taste for,
have no stomach for.
shun, avoid &c. 623; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from;
not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug
the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a
mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces.
loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate &c. 898; take amiss
&c. 900; have enough of &c. (be satiated) 869.
cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick,
render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in
the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the
throat; make one's blood run cold &c. (give pain) 830; pall.
Adj. disliking &c. v.; averse from, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of,
out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick; queasy.
dislike &c. v.; uneared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive,
repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous;
loathsome, loathful; offensive; disgusting &c. v.; disagreeable c.
(painful) 830.
Adv. usque ad nauseam.
Int. faugh! foh! ugh!
Phr. non libet.

#868. Fastidiousness. -- N. fastidiousness &c. adj.; nicety,
hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise, epicurism, omnia
suspendens naso.
epicure, gourmet.
[Excess of delicacy] prudery.
V. be fastidious &c. adj.; have a sweet tooth.
mince the matter; turn up one's nose at &c. (disdain) 930; look a gift
horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.
Adj. fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, difficult, dainty,
lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please,
difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous;
censorious &c. 932; hypercritical; overcritical.
Phr. noli me tangere.

#869. Satiety. -- N. satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion,
glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness &c. 841. spoiled child;
enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix;
crambe repetita.
V. sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut.,
gorge, surfeit; bore &c. (weary) 841; tire &c. (fatigue) 688; spoil.
have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much
of; be satiated &c. adj.
Adj. satiated &c. v.; overgorged; blase, used up, sick of, heartsick.
Int. enough! hold! eheu jam satis! basta!

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CONTEMPLATIVE AFFECTIONS


#870. Wonder. -- N. wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement,
wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness &c. adj.; admiration, awe; stupor,
stupefaction; stound|, fascination; sensation; surprise &c. (inexpectation)
5O8.
note of admlration; thaumaturgy &c.(sorcery) 992.
V. wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised &c. adj.; start; stare; open
one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar|; gape, open one's
mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank
&c. (disappointment) 509; tomber des nues; not believe one's eyes, not
believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.
not be able to account for &c. (unintelligible) 519; not know whether
one stands on one's head or one's heels.
surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle,
dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun,
stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's
beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb;
make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's
mouth; make one stare.
take by surprise &c. (be unexpected) 508.
be wonderful &c. adj.; beggar description, beggar the imagination,
baffle description; stagger belief.
Adj. surprised &c. v.; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-
mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound;
lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a
heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder.
wonderful, wondrous; surprising &c. v.; unexpected &c. 508; unheard
of; mysterious &c. (inexplicable) 519; miraculous.
indescribable, inexpressible, inaffable; unutterable, unspeakable.
monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable,
incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange &c. (uncommon) 83; passing
strange.
striking &c. v.; overwhelming; wonder-working.
Adv. wonderfully, &c. adj.; fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of
wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great
surprise.
with wonder &c. n., with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned
eyes.
Int. lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really!
surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, good gracious! gad so!
welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious
goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me!
bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity!
strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds!
'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it! &c.
(inexpectation) 508; you don't say so! what do you say to that! nous
verrons! how now! where am I?
Phr. vox faucibus haesit; one's hair standing on end.


#871. [Absence of wonder.] Expectance. -- N. expectance &c.
(expectation) 507.
nine days' wonder.
V. expect &c. 507; not be surprised, not wonder &c. 870; nil admirari,
make nothing of.
Adj. expecting &c. v.; unamazed, astonished at nothing; blase &c.
(weary) 841; expected &c. v.; foreseen.
common, ordinary &c. (habitual) 613.
Int. no wonder; of course.



#872. Prodigy. -- N. prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel,
miracle; monster &c. (unconformity) 83; curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle;
jeu de theatre, coup de theatre; gazingstock; sign; St. Elmo's fire, St.
Elmo's light; portent &c. 512.
bursting of a shell, bursting of a bomb; volcanic eruption, peal of
thunder; thunder-clap, thunder-bolt.
what no words can paint; wonders of the world; annus mirabilis; dignus
vindice nodus.
Phr. natura il fece e poi roppe la stampa.

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5. EXTRINSIC AFFECTIONS

Or personal affections *dci,ived *'I'roin the *opiniod-z- or feelings of
others.

#873. Repute. -- N. distinction, mark, name, figure; repute,
reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, "
the bubble reputation " [As You Like It], vogue, celebrity; fame,
famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation &c. 931;
credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with.
glory, honor; luster &c. (light) 420; illustriousness &c. adj.
account, regard, respect; reputableness &c. adj.; respectability &c.
(probity) 939; good name, good report; fair name.
dignity; stateliness &c. adj.; solemnity, grandeur, splendor,
nobility, majesty, sublimity.
rank, standing, brevet rank, precedence, pas, station, place, status;
position, position in society; order, degree, baccalaureate, locus standi,
caste, condition.
greatness &c. adj.; eminence; height &c. 206; importance &c. 642;
preeminence, supereminence; high mightiness, primacy; top of the ladder,
top of the tree.
elevation; ascent &c. 305; superaltation, exaltation; dignification,
aggrandizement. dedication, consecration, enthronement, canonization,
celebration, enshrinement, glorification.
hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis,
notability, somebody; classman; man of rank &c. (nobleman) 875; pillar of
the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community.
chief &c. (master) 745; first fiddle &c. (proficient) 700; cynosure,
mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon &c. (perfection) 650; choice and
master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy.
ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of
glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels &c. (trophy) 733.
memory, posthumous fame, niche in the temple of fame; immortality,
immortal name; magni nominis umbra [Lucan].
V. be conscious of glory; be proud of &c. (pride) 878; exult &c.
(boast) 884; be vain of &c. (vanity) 880.

be distinguished &c. adj.; shine &c. (light) 420; shine forth, figure;
cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash.
rival, surpass; outshine, outrival, outvie, outjump; emulate, eclipse;
throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow.
live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor , acquire honor &c. n.;
play first fiddle &c. (be of importance) 642, bear the palm, bear the bell;
lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laurels,
gain spurs, gain golden opinions &c. (approbation) 931; take one's degree,
pass one's examination.
make a noise, make some noise, make a noise in the world; leave one's
mark, exalt one's horn, star it, have a run, be run after; come into vogue,
come to the front; raise one's head.
enthrone, signalize, immortalize, deify, exalt to the skies; hand
one's name down to posterity.
consecrate; dedicate to, devote to; enshrine, inscribe, blazon,
lionize, blow the trumpet, crown with laurel.
confer honor on, reflect honor on &c. v. ; shed a luster on;
redound.to one's honor, ennoble.
give honor to, do honor to, pay honor to, render honor to; honor,
accredit, pay regard to, dignify, glorify; sing praises to &c. (approve)
931; lock up to; exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate.
Adj. distinguished, distingue, noted; of note &c. n.; honored &c. v.;
popular; fashionable &c. 852.
in good odor in; favor, in high favor; reputable, respectable,
creditable.
remarkable &c. (important) 642; notable, notorious; celebrated,
renowned, ion every one's mouth, talked of; famous, famed; far-famed;
conspicuous, to the front; foremost; in the front rank, in the ascendant.
imperishable, deathless, immortal, never fading, aere perennius; time
honored.
illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright &c. 420;
full-blown; honorific.
eminent, prominent; high &c. 206; in the zenith; at the head of, at
the top of the tree; peerless, of the first water.; superior &c. 33;
supereminent, preeminent.
great, dignified, proud, noble, honorable, worshipful, lordly, grand,
stately, august, princely. imposing, solemn, transcendent, majestic,
sacred, sublime, heaven-born, heroic, sans peur et sans reproche;
sacrosanct.
Int. hail! all hail! ave! viva! vive! long life to! glory be to, honor
be to?
Phr. one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever; sic
itur ad astra, fama volat, aut Caesar aut nullus; not to know him argues
oneself unknown; none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit
ferat [Nelson's motto].
"above all Greek above all Roman fame " [Pope]; - cineri gloria sera
est [Martial]; "great is the glory for the strife is hard " [Wordsworth];
honor virtutis praemium [Cicero]; immensum gloria calcar habet [Ovid]; "
the glory dies not and the grief is past " [Brydges]; vivit post funera
virtus.

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#874. Disrepute. -- N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute,
bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor;
disapprobation &c. 932; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement;
abjectness &c. adj.; degradation, dedecoration; a long farewell to all my
greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy.
dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness;
turpitude &c. (improbity) 940; infamy.
tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur,
stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.
crying shame, burning.shame; scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot
in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain, point champain;
byword of reproach; Ichabod.
argumentum ad verecundiam; sense of shame &c. 879.
V. be inglorious &c. adj.; incur disgrace &c. n.; have a bad name,
earn a bad name; put a halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's
neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself.
play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede
into the shade; fall from one's high estate; keep in the background &c.
(modesty) 881; be conscious of disgrace &c. (humility) 879; look blue, look
foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure; laugh on
the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a flea in.
one's ear, slink away.
cause shame &c. n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw
dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor
upon &c. n.; be a reproach &c. n. to; derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, deffle;
beggar; expel &c. (punish) 972.
impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, villify,, defame, slur, cast
a slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample
under foot; show up, drag through the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c.
932.
bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower,
take down a peg or two.
obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the
shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the
background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put
out of countenance.
upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the
blush &c. (humble) 879.
Adj. disgraced &c. v.; blown upon; "shorn of its beams " [Milton],
shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame &c. n.; in
bad repute &c. n.; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of
countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to
show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down in
the world.
inglorious; nameless, renownless; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed,
unnoted, unhonored, unglorified.
shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable;
questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating,
infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable;
ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.
ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low,
mean, shabby base &c. (dishonorable) 940.
Adv. to one's shame be it spoken.
Int. fie! shame! for shame! proh pudor! O tempora! O mores! ough! sic
transit gloria mundi!
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#875. Nobility. -- N. nobility, rank, condition, distinction,
optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order; quality, gentility;
blue blood of Castile; ancien regime.
high life, haute monde; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four
hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c.
(fashion) 852.
peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords
temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee,
magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku [all Japanese]; don,
donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire,
squireen, patrician, laureate.
gentry, gentlefolk; *squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates,
optimates; pantisocracy.
king &c. (master) 745; atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate;
earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight,
knighthood; count, armiger, laird;* signior seignior; esquire, boyar,
margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib;
chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave.
princess, begum, duchess, marchioness; countess &c.; lady, dame;
memsahib; Do$a, maharani, rani.
personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man
of rank, personage of mark, man of mark; notables, notbilities; celebrity,
bigwig, magnate, great man, star; big bug; big gun, great gun; gilded
rooster* [U. S.]; magni nominis umbra [Lucan]; " every inch a king "
[Lear].
V. be noble &c. adj.
Adj. noble, exalted; of rank &c. n.; princely, titled, patrician,
aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut,
gentlemanlike, courtly &c. (fashionable) 852; highly respectable.
Adv. in high quarters.
Phr. Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete[Ger.]; adelig und edel
sind zweierlei[Ger.]; noblesse oblige[Fr.].

#876. Commonalty. -- N. commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low
condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the
people, mass of society,; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler
classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus
omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the
multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob;
proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man
in the street.
mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the
people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society;
swinish multitude, foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus;
vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.
commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican,
proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr. Snooks, bourgeois, epicier,
Philistine, cockney; grisette, demimonde.
peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terroe
filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain,
clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin;
plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed*, lunkhead [U. S.], chaw-bacon*, tiller
of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon,
put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube* [U. S.], lout, underling; gamin;
rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion|; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad,
curmudgeon.
upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni
quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent,
mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.
beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff,
tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp,
vagabond, bezonian, panhandler*, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella,
cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon.
Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub,
rough diamond.
barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.
V. be ignoble &c. adj., be nobody &c. n.
Adj. ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly;
below par; no great shakes &c. (unimportant) 643; homely, homespun; vulgar,
low-minded; snobbish.
plebeian, proletarian; of low parentage, of low origin, of low
extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction; lowborn,
baseborn, earthborn; mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks; unknown to
fame, obscure, untitled.
rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish,
raffish; rude, unlicked.
barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque; cockney, born within
sound of Bow bells.
underling, menial, subaltern.
Adv. below the salt.
Phr. dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet [Ovid].

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#877. Title. -- N. title, honor; knighthood &c. (nobility) 875.
highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend;
esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, se$or, Mein Herr, mynheer; your honor,
his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name.
decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon,
riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather,
feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order,
arms, shield, scutcheon; reward &c. 973.

#878. Pride. - N. dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti
[Vergil].
pride; haughtiness &c. adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest;
arrogance &c. (assumption) 885.
proud man, highflier; fine gentleman, fine lady.
V. be proud &c. adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk
abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger,
strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's
head high, look big, take the wall, " bear like the Turk no rival near the
throne " [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on
one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself
airs &c. (assume) 885; boast &c. 884.
pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume
oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide
one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think
small beer of oneself &c. (vanity) 880.
Adj. dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial;
lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-
plumed, high-flown, high-toned.
haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown;
vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer;
bloated with pride.
supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and
mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant &c. 885; unblushing &c. 880.
stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-
laced; prim &c. (affected) 855.
on one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's
high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur.
Adv. with head erect.
Phr. odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Horace].
" a duke's revenues on her back" [Henry VI]; " disdains the shadow
which he treads on at noon" [Coriolanis]; "pride in their port, defiance
in their eye" [Goldsmith].

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