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#941. Knave. -- N. knave, rogue; Scapin, rascal; Lazarillo de Tormes;
bad man &c. 949; blackguard &c. 949; barrater, barrator; shyster [U.S..].
traitor, betrayer, archtraitor, conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile,
serpent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak,
squealer*, tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, renegade &c.
(tergiversation) 607; truant, recreant; sycophant &c. (servility) 886.

#942. Disinterestedness. -- N. disinterestedness &c. adj.; generosity;
liberality, liberalism; altruism; benevolence &c. 906; elevation, loftiness
of purpose, exaltation, magnanimity; chivalry, chivalrous spirit; heroism,
sublimity.
self-denial, self-abnegation, self-sacrifice, self-immolation, self-
control &c. (resolution) 604; stoicism, devotion, martyrdom, suttee.
labor of love.
V. be disinterested &c. adj.; make a sacrifice, lay one's head on the
block; put oneself in the place of others, do as one would be done by, do
unto others as we would men should do unto us.
Adj. disinterested; unselfish; self-denying, self-sacrificing, self-
devoted; generous.
handsome, liberal, noble; noble-minded, highminded; princely, great,
high, elevated, lofty, exalted, spirited, stoical, magnanimous; great-
hearted, large-hearted; chivalrous, heroic, sublime.
unbought, unbribed; uncorrupted &c. (upright) 939.
Phr. non vobis solum.

#943. Selfishness. -- N. selfishness &c. adj.; self-love, self-
indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre,&c.
(vanity) 880; nepotism.
worldliness &c. adj.; world wisdom.
illiberality; meanness &c. adj.
time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber,
worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger,
charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness,"
temporizer, trimmer.
V. be selfish &c. adj.; please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle
oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after
one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an
eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an
inch and take an ell.
Adj. selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested; wrapt up
in self, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical.
illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous
&c. 819.
unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly-
minded; worldly-wise; timeserving.
interested; alieni appetens sui profusus.
Adv. ungenerously &c. adj.; to gain some private ends, from interested
motives.
Phr. apres nous le deluge.

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#944. Virtue. -- N. virtue; virtuousness &c. adj.; morality; moral
rectitude; integrity &c. (probity) 939; nobleness &c. 873.
morals; ethics &c. (duty) 926; cardinal virtues.
merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c.
(resolution) 604; self-denial &c. (temperance) 953.
well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty,
fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence &c.
946.
V. be virtuous &c. adj.; practice virtue &c.n.; do one's duty, fulfill
one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge
&c. 926; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself
well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right
path.
set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on
one's best behavior.
Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c. 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy,
desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-
minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy;
above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure,
noble; whole-souled.
exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born,
angelic, seraphic, godlike.
Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito.
Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht
Tugend besteht; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift]; virtus
laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam.

#945. Vice. -- N. vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing;
wickedness, viciousness &c. adj.; iniquity, peccability, demerit; sin,
Adam|!; old Adam, offending Adam.
immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of
morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast;
obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity,
pollution; hardness of heart; brutality &c. (malevolence) 907; corruption
&c. (debasement) 659; knavery &c. (improbity) 940; profligacy; flagrancy,
atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
infirmity; weakness &c. adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty,
imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin,
besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den; gusto picaresco.
fault, crime; criminality &c. (guilt) 947.
sinner &c. 949.
[Resorts] brothel &c. 961; gambling house &c. 621; joint*, opium den.
V. be vicious &c. adj.; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgfress;
misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave;
fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty,
deviate from the path of virtue &c. 944; take a wrong course, go astray;
hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.
render vicious &c. adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt &c. (degrade)
659.
Adj. [1] vicious; sinful; sinning &c.v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral,
unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful.
unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous,
unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless;
desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy,
uncomendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.
base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous|,
felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villanous, of a deep
dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.
Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian,
fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.
miscreated, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved.
evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent &c. 907;
heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue;
unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity.
incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for;
culpable, reprehensible &c. (guilty) 947.
unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable,
irremissible.
weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing,
degrading.
Adv. wrong; sinfully &c. adj.; without excuse.
Int. O tempora! O mores!
Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male
vivere [Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Terence]; nemo repente fuit
turpissimus; "the trail of the serpent is over them all" [Moore]; "to
sanction vice and hunt decorum down" [Bryon].
[Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and
to the agent.]

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#946. Innocence. -- N. innocence; guiltlessness &c. adj.;
incorruption, impeccability.
clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil].
innocent, lamb, dove.
V. be innocent &c. adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa
[Horace].
acquit &c. 970; exculpate &c. (vindicate) 937.
Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless,
stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia;
unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c. 939; unhardened, Saturnian;
Arcadian &c. (artless) 703.
inculpable, unculpable; unblamed, unblamable; blameless, unfallen,
inerrable, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible;
unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable; venial &c. 937.
harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like;
pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn;
"more sinned against than sinning" [Lear].
virtuous &c. 944; unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached.
Adv. innocently &c. adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience,
with a safe conscience.
Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].

#947. Guilt. -- N. guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality,
criminousness; deviation from rectitude &c. (improbity) 940; sinfulness &c.
(vice) 945.
misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin,
error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip,
trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break,
bad break [U.S.]|!, capital crime, delictum.
offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasanee, misprision; malefaction,
malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony.
enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a
name" [Macbeth].
corpus delicti.
Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, censurable,
reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the
balance and found wanting; exceptionable.
Adv. in flagrante delicto; red-handed, in the very act.
Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes
[Horace]; "O would the deed were good!" [Richard II]; "responsibility
prevents crimes" [Burke;] se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Juvenal]; "so
many laws argues so many sins" [Paradise Lost].

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#948. Good Man. -- N. good man, worthy.
model, paragon &c. (perfection) 650; good example; hero, demigod,
seraph, angel; innocent &c. 946; saint &c. (piety) 987; benefactor &c. 912;
philanthropist &c. 910; Aristides; noble liver|!, pattern.
brick*, trump*, rough diamond, ugly duckling|!.
salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; a man among men.
Phr. si sic omnes!

#949. Bad Man. -- N. bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer
&c. 913; sinner; the wicked &c. 945; bad example.
villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff|!; wretch,
reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger|!, monster;
devil &c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib;
hellhound, hellcat; rakehell.
bad woman, jade, Jezebel.
scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, rou,
rake; Sadist, scallawag, scalawag; skeesicks*, skeezix* [U.S.]; limb; one
who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien,
mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder*; lost sheep, black sheep;
castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal &c. 818.
rough, rowdy, ugly customer, ruffian, bully; Jonathan Wild; hangman;
incendiary, fire bug [U.S.]; thief &c. 792; murderer, terrorist &c. 361.
culprit, delinquent, criminal, malefactor, misdemeanant; felon;
convict, jail bird, ticket of leave man; outlaw.
blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion; cullion,
mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole; cur, dog, hound|!, whelp|!,
mongrel|!; lown|!, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond; rogue &c. (knave) 941;
ronian; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo.
Int. sirrah!
Phr. Acherontis pabulum; gibier de potence.

#950. Penitence. -- N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance,
remorse; regret &c. 833.
self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-
humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of
conscience, prickings of conscience, twinge of conscience, twitch of
conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience; compunctious
visitings of nature.
acknowledgement, confession &c. (disclosure) 529; apology &c. 952;
recantation &c. 607; penance &c. 952; resipiscence|!.
awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae, stool of
repentance, cuttystool.
penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, "a sadder and a wiser
man" [Coleridge].
V. repent, be sorry for; be penitent &c. adj.; rue; regret &c. 833;
think better of; recant &c. 607; knock under &c. (submit) 725; plead
guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the
wrong; acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon
&c. (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from
sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn by
experience.
Adj. penitent; repenting &c.v.; repentant, contrite; conscience-
smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing, self-convicted.
penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed; not hardened; unhardened.
Adv. mea culpa.
Phr. peccavi; erubuit; salva res est [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu, Georges
Dandin; "and wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].

#951. Impenitence. -- N. impenitence, irrepentance, recusance; lack of
contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.
V. be impenitent &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die
game, die and make no sign.
Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared,
recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless.
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreclaimed, unreformed; unrepented, unatoned.

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#952. Atonement. -- N. atonement, reparation; compromise, composition;
compensation &c. 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation,
conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.
amends, apology, amende honorable, satisfaction; peace offering, sin
offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice.
penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet,
shrift, flagellation, lustration; purgation, purgatory.
V. atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good;
reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand
in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes.
set one's house in order, wipe off old scores, make matters up; pay
the forfeit, pay the penalty.
apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable, give satisfaction;
come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow
bones.


4. MORAL PRACTICE

#953. Temperance. -- N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness.
forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control &c.
(resolution) 604.
frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; abstinence,
abstemiousness; Encratism, prohibition; system of Pythagoras, system of
Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism.
vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist.
teetotaler &c. 958; abstainer; Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot|!.
V. be temperate &c. adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself,
spare.
know when one has had enough.
take the pledge.
Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious,
abstinent; within compass; measured &c. (sufficient) 639.
Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.
Phr. appetitus rationi obediant [Cic.]; l'abstenir pour jouir c'est
l'epicurisme de la raison [Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque voluptas [Vergil].

#954. Intemperance. -- N. intemperance; sensuality, animalism,
carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury,
luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.
indulgence; high living, inabstinence, self-indulgence; voluptuousness
&c. adj.; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit.
dissipation; licentiousness &c. adj.; debauchery; crapulence.
revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout,
wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.
Circean cup; bhang, hashish, opium, cocaine.
V. be intemperate &c. adj.; indulge, exceed; live well, live high,
live high on the fat of the land; give a loose to indulgence &c. n.; wallow
in voluptuousness &c. n.; plunge into dissipation.
revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's
appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper.
Adj. intemperate,inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous,
luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish.
Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in
the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.
Phr. "being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello].

#954a. Sensualist. -- N. Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of
pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog;
votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free
liver, hard liver; libertine &c. 962; hedonist; tragalist.

#955. Asceticism. -- N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism;
cynicism|!, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism.
mortification, aceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance
&c. 952; fasting &c. 956; martyrdom.
ascetic; anchoret, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos; hermit &c.
(recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi.
Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious; acerbic.

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#956. Fasting. -- N. fasting; xerophagy; famishment, starvation.
fast, jour maigre; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima; Ramadan,
Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe
maigre, short commons, Barmecide feast; short rations.
V. fast, starve, clem|, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke
Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.
Adj. lenten, quadragesimal; unfed; starved &c.v.; half-starved;
fasting &c. v.; hungry &c. 865.

#957. Gluttony. -- N. gluttony; greed; greediness &c. adj.; voracity.
epicurism; good living, high living; edacity, gulosity, crapulence;
guttling, guzzling; pantophagy.
good cheer, blow out; feast &c. (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de
cuisine.
epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god,
Apicius, gastronome.
v. gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's
fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp &c.
(swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork &c.
(appetite) 865.
pamper.
Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c.v.; edacious, omnivorous,
crapulent, swinish.
pampered; overfed, overgorged.
Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Horace].


#958. Sobriety. -- N. sobriety; teetotalism.
water-drinker; hydropot|!; prohibitionist; teetotaler, teetotalist;
abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope.
V. take the pledge.
Adj. sober, sober as a judge.

#959. Drunkenness. -- N. drunkenness &c. adj.; intemperance; drinking
&c. v.; inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety;
intoxication; temulency, bibacity, winebibbing; comtation, potation; deep
potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender* [U.S.].
oinomania, dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a
potu.
drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin*, grog, port wine; punch, punch
bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer &c.
(beverage) 298; aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash
[U.S.]; chain lightning*, champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling; highball
[U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh,
usquebaugh, whisky, xeres.
drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, winebibber; hard drinker, gin
drinker, dram drinker; soaker*, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty
soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante;
devotee to Bacchus; bum* [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.
V. get drunk, be drunk &c. adj.; see double; take a drop too much,
take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill*,
soak*, sot, bum* [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, lush*, bib, swig, carouse;
sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink
deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill*, drain the cup, splice the main
brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.
liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle,
pass the bottle; toss off &c. (drink up) 2198; go to the alehouse, go to
the public house.
make one drunk &c. adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into
one's head.
Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in
one's cups; in a state of intoxication &c.n.; temulent, temulentive;
fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered,
disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent|;
squiffy*; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed*, tight, primed, corned,
raddled, sewed up*, lushy*, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin;
crapulous, dead drunk.[1]
flush, flushed.
inter pocula; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too
much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind;
under the table.
drunk as a lord, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe,
drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.
drunken, bibacious, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink,
addicted to the bottle; toping &c.v.
Phr. nunc est bibendum; "Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden]; "drink
down all unkindness" [Merry Wives]; "O that men should put an enemy in
their mouths to steal away their brains" [Othello].

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#960. Purity. -- N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence,
chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity.
vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.
Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus
puerisque; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as
heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton];
"to the pure all things are pure" [Shelley].

#961. Impurity.-- N. impurity; uncleanness &c. (filth0 653;
immodesty; grossness &c. adj.; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity;
obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque.
concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery,
lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism.
incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry;
debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching,
venery, dissipation.
seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest.
social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom,
adultery, advoutry, crim. con.; free love.
seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, lupanar, house of
ill fame, bordel.
V. be impure &c. adj.; intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute;
abuse, violate, delfower; commit adultery &c.n.
Adj. impure; unclean &c. (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears
polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine;
loose, risqu, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome,
ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.
concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-
minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish,
salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty.
unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose
character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious,
rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on
the streets, on the pave, on the loose.
adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

#962. Libertine. -- N. libertine; voluptuary &c. 954a; rake,
debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man; intrigant, gallant,
seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer,
gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard; chartered libertine.
adultress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore,
punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss,
piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy,
drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan;
unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue
&c. (unchaste) 961; wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah,
Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette;
demimonde; chippy* [U.S.]; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.
concubine, mistress, doxy, chere amie, bona roba.
pimp; pander, pandar; bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel,
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5. INSTITUTIONS



#963. Legality. -- N. legality; legitimacy, legitimateness.
legislature; law, code, corpus juris, constitution, pandect, charter,
enactment, statute, rule; canon &c. (precept) 697; ordinance, institution,
regulation; bylaw, byelaw; decree &c. (order) 741; ordonnance; standing
order; plebiscite &c. (choice) 609.
legal process; form, formula, formality; rite, arm of the law; habeas
corpus; fieri facias.
[Science of law] jurisprudence, nomology; legislation, codification.
equity, common law; lex, lex nonscripta; law of nations, droit des
gens, international law, jus gentium; jus civile; civil law, canon law,
crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law; lex mercatoria.
constitutionalism, constitutionality; justice &c. 922.
V. legalize; enact, ordain; decree &c. (order) 741; pass a law;
legislate; codify, formulate.
Adj. legal, legitimate; according to law; vested, constitutional,
chartered, legalized; lawful &c. (permitted) 760; statutable, statutory;
legislatorial, legislative.
Adv. legally &c. adj.; in the eye of the law; de jure.
Phr. ignorantia legis neminem excusat; "where law ends tyranny begins"
[Earl of Chatham].

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