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5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES

#80. Normality. -- N. normality, normalcy, normalness; familiarity,
naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard (conformity) 82;
customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22.
V. normalize, standardize.
Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency) 136;

#81. Multiformity. -- N. multiformity, omniformity; variety,
diversity; multifariousness &c. adj.; varied assortment.
Adj. multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex;
variform, manifold, many-sided; omniform, omnigenous, omnifarious;
heterogeneous, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory,
irregular, diversified, different divers; all manner of; of every
description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de
omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis.
Phr. "harmoniously confused" [Pope]; variety's the very spice of life"
[Cowper].

#82. Conformity. -- N. {opp. 83} conformity, conformance; observance;
habituation. naturalization; conventionality &c. (custom) 613; agreement
&c. 23.
example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification,
illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation.
standard, model, pattern &c. (prototype) 22.
rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural
state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition,
ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order;
Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.

V. conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself
to; rub off corners.
be regular &c. adj.; move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by
the rules, bend to the rules ,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply
with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated
by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the
crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les
loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the
stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim
with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track &c. (habit)
613; keep one in countenance.
exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority,
appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance &c. n.; elucidate,
explain.
Adj. conformable to rule; regular &c. 136; according to regulation,
according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to
Gunter; en regle, selon Ies, reges, well regulated, orderly; symmetric &c.
242.
conventional &c. (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday
occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual,
usual, everyday, workaday.
in the order of the day; naturalized.
typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict,
rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.
secundum artem, shipshape, technical. exempIe. illustrative, in point.
Adv. conformably &c. adj.; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with,
in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as
usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more-majorum. for the sake of
conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake,
by the card.
invariably, &c. (uniformly) 16.
for example, for instance; exempli gratia; e. g.
inter alia.
Phr. cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e
quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Erasmus]; "they are happy men whose natures
sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. "The nail that sticks up will get
hammered down" [Japanese saying]; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut
off."

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#83. Unconformity.-- N. nonconformity &c. 82; unconformity,
disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality,
anomaly; anomalousness &c. adj.; exception, peculiarity; infraction of
law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of
usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of
usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi,
monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, wierdo, mutant;
rouser, snorter* [U.S.].
individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.
aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c.
(qualification) 469.
nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonsuch, monster,
prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan,
lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste,
half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto;
tertium quid, hermaphrodite.
phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur;
saggittary; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid;
unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"
[Othello]; teratology.
fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor
fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million,
one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track;
oasis.
V. be uncomformable &c. adj.; abnormalize; leave the beaten track,
leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage,
infringe a custom, break alaw, break a habit, break a usage, break a
custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom;
drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there;
baffle all description, beggar all description.
Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous,
anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out
of one's element;. irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal,
aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural,
eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of
the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of;
misplaced; funny.
unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare,
singular, unique, curious, odd, extraordinary; strange, monstrous;
wonderful &c. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way,
remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis;
original, unconventional, unfashionable; undescribed, unprecedented,
unparalleled, unexampled, unheard of, unfamiliar; fantastic, newfangled,
grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural;
denaturalized.
heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene,
half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; unsymmetric &c. 243;
adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous.
qualified &c. 469.
Adv. unconformably &c. adj.; except, unless, save barring, beside,
without, save and except, let alone.
however, yet, but.
Int. what on earth! what in the world! What the devil! Holy cow!
Sacre bleu!
Phr. never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was
known the like.

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SECTION V. NUMBER

1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT

#84. Number. -- N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit,
integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series.
sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand,
multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor,
factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number,
complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal,
repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient.
permutation, combination, variation; election.
ratio, proportion, progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical
progression, harmonical progression; percentage.
figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers.
power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus.
differential, integral, fluxion, fluent.
Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime,
relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable.
proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential,
fluxional, integral, totitive.
positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real;
complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.

#85. Numeration. -- N. numeration; numbering &c. v.; pagination;
tale, recension, enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation,
supputation; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism, rhabdology,
dactylonomy; measurement &c. 466; statistics.
arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry,
fluxions; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal calculus;
calculus of differences.
[Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll
call, recapitulation; account &c. (list) 86.
[Operations] notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots,
reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation,
differentiation, integration.
[Instruments] abacus, logometer, slide rule, slipstick[coll.],
tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-pan;
adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator, calculator,
computer;
[people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist, algebraist,
mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant, auditor.
V. number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account
of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up;
tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract,
multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize.
check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock; affix
numbers to, page.
amount to, add up to, come to.
Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic,
statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable,
commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable,
infinite.

#86. List. -- N. list, catalog, catalogue, inventory, schedule;
register &c. (record) 551; account; bill, bill of costs; syllabus; terrier,
tally, file; calendar, index, table, atlas, contents; book, ledger;
synopsis, catalogue raisonne; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus,
program, programme; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census, statistics,
returns; Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre; directory, gazetter.
almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list; Almanach de
Gotha, cadaster, card index, card file, rolodex, dictionary, thesaurus,
Lloyd's register, nautical almanac, who's who, Guiness's Book of World
Records.
roll; check roll, checker roll, bead roll; muster roll, muster book;
roster, panel; cartulary, diptych.
Adj. cadastral.

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2. DETERMINATE NUMBER


#87. {opp. 100} Unity. -- N. unity; oneness &c. adj.; individuality;
solitude &c. (seclusion) 893; isolation &c. (disjunction) 44; unification
&c. 48.
one, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other.
V. be one, be alone &c. adj.; dine with Duke Humphrey.
isolate &c. (disjoin) 44.
render one; unite &c. (join) 43, (combine) 48.
Adj. one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone;
kithless.
unaccompanied, unattended; solus, single-handed; singular, odd,
unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last; isolated &c. (disjoined) 44;
insular.
monospermous; unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral,
unijocular, unimodular.
lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary. insecable|, inseverable,
indiscerptible; compact, irresolvable.
Adv. singly &c. adj.; alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the
singular number, in the abstract; one by one, one at a time; simply; one
and a half, sesqui-
Phr. natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa; du fort au faible; "two
souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."

#88. Accompaniment. -- N. accompaniment; adjunct &c. 39; context;
appendage, appurtenance.
coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship;
partnership, copartnership; coefficiency.
concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant,
fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-
partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege;
attribute.
V. accompany, coexist, attend; hang on, wait on; go hand in hand with;
synchronize &c. 120; bear company, keep company; row in the same boat;
bring in its train; associate with, couple with.
Adj. accompanying &c. v.; concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated
with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato.
Adv. with, withal; together with, along with, in company with; hand in
hand, side by side; cheek by jowl, cheek by jole; arm in arm; therewith,
herewith; and &c. (addition) 37.
together, in a body, collectively.
Phr. noscitur a sociis; virtutis fortuna comes.

#89. Duality. -- N. duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity, biformity;
polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and
Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation; dispermy,
doublets, dyad, span.
V. [unite in pairs] pair, couple, bracket, yoke; conduplicate; mate,
span [U.S.].
Adj. two, twin; dual, dualistic, double; binary, binomial; twin,
biparous; dyadic; conduplicate; duplex &c. 90; biduous, binate, diphyletic,
dispermic, unijugate; tete-a-tete.
coupled &c. v.; conjugate.
both, both the one and the other.

#90. Duplication. -- N. duplication; doubling &c. v.; gemination,
ingemination; reduplication; iteration &c. (repetition) 104; renewal.
V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c. 104;
renew &c. 660.
Adj. double; doubled &c. v.; bicipital, bicephalous, bidental,
bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular, bifold, biform, bilateral; bifarious,
bifacial; twofold, two-sided; disomatous; duplex; double-faced, double-
headed; twin, duplicate, ingeminate; second.
Adv. twice, once more; over again &c. (repeatedly) 104; as much again,
twofold. secondly, in the second place, again.

#91. [Division into two parts.] bisection. -- N. bisection,
bipartition; dichotomy, subdichotomy; halving &c. v.; dimidiation.
bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork,
prong; fold. half, moiety.
V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate,
dichotomize.
go halves, divide with.
separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify.
Adj. bisected &c. v.; cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid,
bifid; bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated; distichous, dichotomous, furcular;
semi-, demi-, hemi.

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#92. Triality. -- N. Triality, trinity; triunity.
three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, leash; shamrock, tierce,
spike-team [U.S.], trefoil; triangle, trident, triennium, trigon,
trinormial, trionym, triplopia, tripod, trireme, triseme, triskele,
triskelion, trisula.
third power, cube.
Adj. three ; triform, trinal, trinomial; tertiary; ternary; triune;
triarch, triadie; triple &c. 93..
Phr. tria juncta in uno.

#93. Triplication. -- N. triplication, triplicity; trebleness, trine.
V. treble, triple; triplicate, cube.
Adj. treble, triple; tern, ternary; triplicate, threefold,
trilogistic; third; trinal, trine.
Adv. three times, three fold; thrice, in the third place, thirdly;
trebly &c. adj.

#94. [Division into three parts.] Trisection. -- N. trisection,
tripartition, trichotomy; third, third part.
V. trisect, divide into three parts.
Adj. trifid; trisected &c. v.; tripartite, trichotomous, trisulcate.
Triadelphous, triangular, tricuspid, tricapsular, tridental,
tridentate, tridentiferous, trifoliate, trifurcate, trigonal, trigrammic,
trigrammatic, tripetalous, tripodal, tripodic, triquetral, triquetrous.

#95. Quaternity. -- N. Quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion,
square, quarter; tetract, tetragon.
quadrangle, quadrature, quadfifoil, quadfiform, quadruplet;
quatrefoil.
V. reduce to a square, square.
Adj. four; quaternary, quaternal; quadratic; quartile; tetract,
tetractic, tetractinal; tetrad, tetragonal.

#96. Quadruplication. -- N. quadruplication.
V. multiply by four, quadruplicate, biquadrate.
Adj. fourfold; quadrable, quadrumanous, quadruple, quadruplicate,
quadrible; fourth.
quadrifoliate, quadrifoliolate, quadrigeminal, quadrigeminate,
quadriplanar, quadriserial.
Adv. four times; in the fourth place, fourthly.

#97. [Division into four parts.] Quadrisection. -- N. quadrisection,
quadripartition; quartering &c. v; fourth; quart, quarter, quartern;
farthing (i.e. fourthing).
V. quarter, divide into four parts.
Adj. quartered &c. v.; quadrifid, quadripartite.

#98. Five, &c. -- N. five, cinque, quint, quincux; six, half-a-dozen,
half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker; ten, decade;
eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen; quintuplet;
twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-five, five
and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred;
sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score;
ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad.
hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century; hundredweight, cwt.; one
hundred and fourty-four, gross.
thousand, chiliad; millenium, thousand years; myriad; ten thousand,
ban[Japanese], man[Japanese]; ten thousand years, banzai[Japanese]; lac,
one hunddred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard, billion,
trillion &c.
V. centuriate; quintuplicate.
Adj. five, quinary, quintuple; fifth; senary, sextuple; sixth;
seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal,
denary, decuple, tenth; eleventh; duodenary, duodenal; twelfth; in one's
'teens, thirteenth.
vicesimal, vigesimal; twentieth; twenty-fourth &c. n.; vicenary,
vicennial.
centuple, centuplicate, centennial, centenary, centurial; secular,
hundredth; thousandth, &c.

#99. Quinquesection, &c. -- N. division by five &c. 98; quinquesection
&c.; decimation; fifth &c.
V. decimate; quinquesect.
Adj. quinquefid, quinqueliteral, quinquepartite; quinquarticular;
octifid; decimal, tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal,
sexagenary; hundreth, centesimal; millesimal &c.

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#100. {opp. 87} [More than one.] Plurality. -- N. plurality; a number,
a certain number; one or two, two or three &c.; a few, several; multitude
&c. 102; majority.
Adj. plural, more than one, upwards of, some, certain; not alone &c.
87.
Adv. et cetera, &c., etc.
Phr. non deficit alter.


3. Indeterminate Number


#100a. [Less than one.] Fraction -- N. fraction, fractional part; part
&c. 51.
Adj. fractional, fragmentary, inconsiderable, negligable,
infinitesimal.

#101. Zero. -- N. zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void;
cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts[Ger.], nixie*, nix*; zilch,
zip, zippo [all slang]; not a soul; ame qui vive; absence &c. 187;
unsubstantiality &c. 4.
Adj. not one, not a one, not any, nary a one [dial.];not a, never a;
not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot;
not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a
shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.

#102. Multitude. -- N. multitude; numerous &c. adj.; numerosity,
numerality; multiplicity; profusion &c. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great
number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers,
array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm,
draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood,
litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd &c. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the
world and his wife.
[Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication,
multiple.
V. be numerous &c. adj.; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd,
swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts,
swarm like bees.
Adj. many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a
hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a
thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty &c.; half a
dozen, half a hundred &c.; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous;
numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous,
multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick,
studded; galore.
thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end
of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as
blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands
on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, andheaven
knows what; endless &c. (infinite) 105.
Phr. their name is "legion"; acervatim; en foule; "many-headed
multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young];
vel prece vel pretio.

#103. Fewness. -- N. fewness &c. adj.; paucity, small number; small
quantity &c. 32; rarity; infrequency &c. 137; handful, maniple; minority;
exiguity.
[Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c. v.; elimination,
sarculation|, decimation; eradication.
V. be few &c. adj.
render few &c. adj.; reduce, diminish the nnumber, weed, eliminate,
thin, decimate.
Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, thinly scattered, few and far
between exiguous; infreqent &c. 137; rari nantes; hardly any, scarcely any;
to be counted on one's fingers; reduced &c. v.; unrepeated.
Adv. here and there.

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#104. Repetition. -- repitition, iteration, reiteration, harping,
recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony;
rhythm &c. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.
chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain;
rehearsal; rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation.
cuckoo &c. (imitation) 19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming &c. (roll)
407; renewal &c. (restoration) 660.
twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition;
reappearance, reproduction; periodicity &c. 138.
V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp
upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.
recur, revert, return, reappear; renew &c. (restore) 660.
rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on
the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its
moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the
same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate,
reword.
Adj. repeated &c. v.; repetitional, repetitionary; recurrent,
recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant; redundant,
pleonastic.
monotonous, harping, iterative, unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold;
aforesaid, aforenamed; above-mentioned, above-said; habitual &c. 613;
another.
Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more;
ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo.
again and again; over and over, over and over again; many times over;
time and again, time after time; year after year; day by day &c.; many
times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time;
frequently &c. 136.
Phr. ecce iterum Crispinus; toujours perdrix; "cut and come again"
[Crabbe]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]; cantilenam eandem
canis [Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius [Terence].

#105. Infinity. -- N. infinity, infinitude, infiniteness &c. adj.;
perpetuity &c. 112; boundlessness.
V. be infinite &c. adj.; know no limits, have no limits, know no
bounds,have no bounds; go on for ever.
Adj. infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless, measureless;
innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable, inexhaustible,
interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless, indefinite;
without number, without measure, without limit, without end;
incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless; untold,
unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited; perpetual &c. 112.
Adv. infinitely &c. adj.; ad infinitum.
Phr. "as boundless as the sea" [Romeo and Juliet].

SECTION VI. TIME

1. ABSOLUTE TIME

#106. Time. -- N. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span,
spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course &c.
109; snap.
intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention,
intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite.
era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade &c. (period) 108;
moment, &c. (instant) 113.
glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of
time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of
time; scythe.
V. continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse &c.
109; hold out.
taketime, take up time, fill time, occupy time.
pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time,
talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity
&c. 134; waste time &c.
(be inactive) 683.
Adj. continuing &c. v.; on foot; permanent &c. (durable) 110
Adv. while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the
interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the
time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the
meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from
day to day, from hour to hour &c.; hourly, always; for a time, for a
season;
till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto,
heretofore, prior to this, up to this point.
the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout &c. (completely)
52; for good &c. (diuturnity) 110.
hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante
Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae; A.U.C.; anno
regni; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day,
once.
Phr. time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs
against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of
the essence, "time and tide wait for no man".
ad calendas Groecas; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"
[Johnson]; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion [Measure for
Measure] rich with the spoils of time" [Gray]; tempus edax rerum [Horace);
"the long hours come and go" [C.G. Rossetti]; "the time is out of joint"
[Hamlet]; "Time rolls his ceaseless course" [Scott]; "Time the foe of man's
dominion" [Peacock]; "time wasted is existence, used is life" [Young];
truditur dies die [Horace]; volat hora per orbem [Lucretius]. ; carpe diem.

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