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perate &c. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.

fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient. savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.

excited &c. v.; un-quelled, -quenched, -extinguished, repressed, bridled, -ruly; headstrong; un-governable, -appeasable, mitigable; un-, in-controllable; insup-, irre-pressible. spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating &c. v. ; volcanic, meteoric; stormy &c. (wind) 349.

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Adv. violently &c. adj.; amain; by -storm, – force, force; with might and main; tooth and nail; vi et armis, at the point of the sword, - bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; à -, à toute- outrance; head-long, foremost.

4°. INDIRECT POWER.

175. INFLUENCE.-N. influence; 175a. ABSENCE OF INFLUENCE. importance &c. 642; weight, pres--N. impotence &c. 158; inertness sure, preponderance, prevalence, &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10. sway; predomi-nance, -nancy; ascendancy; dominance, reign; authority &c. 737; capability &c. (power) 157; interest.

footing; purchase &c. (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.

V. have no -influence &c. 175. Adj. uninfluential; unconducing, -ive, -ting to; powerless &c. 158; irrelevant &c. 10.

tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices.

V. have influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, - hold; strike root in.

run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out-, over-weigh; over-ride, -bear; gain head; rage; be -rife &c. adj.; spread like wildfire; have -, get -, gain--the upper hand, – full play.

be -recognized, listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing; play a -part, - leading part- in; take the lead, pull the strings; turn, throw one's weight into the scale; set the fash、 ion, lead the dance.

Adj. influential; important &c. 642; weighty; prevailing &c. .; prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the ascendant, hegemonical.

Adv. with telling effect.

176. TENDENCY.-N. tendency; apt-ness, -itude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; liability &c. 177; quality, nature, temperament; idio-crasy, -syncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humour, mood; drift &c. (direction) 278; con

duciveness, -ducement; applicability &c. (utility) 644; sub-
servience &c. (instrumentality 631.

V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge,
bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate
towards; promote &c. (aid) 707.

Adj. tending &c. v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair
way to, calculated to; liable &c. 177; subservient &c. (instru-
mental) 631; useful &c. 644; subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
Adv. for, whither.

177. LIABILITY.-N. lia-bility, -bleness; possibility, con-
tingency; suscepti-vity, -bility.

V. be liable &c. adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the stand a- chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to. Adj. liable, subject; in danger &c. 665; open –, exposed –, obnoxious- to; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to.

contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of.

5°. COMBINATIONS OF CAUSES.

178. CONCURRENCE.-N. concurrence, cooperation, coagency; union; agreement &c. 23; consent &c. (assent) 488; alliance; concert &c. 709; partnership &c. 712.

179. COUNTERACTION.-N. counteraction, opposition; contrariety &c. 14; antagonism, polarity; clashing &c. v.; collision, interference, resistance, renitence, friction; reaction; retroaction &c. (recoil) 277; counterblast; neutrali

V. con-cur, -duce, -spire, -tribute; agree, unite; hang-, pull-zation &c. (compensation) 30; vis together &c. (cooperate) 709; help inertia; check &c. (hindrance) to &c. (aid) 707. 706.

keep pace with, run parallel; go voluntary opposition &c. 708, -, go along -, go hand in hand-resistance &c. 719; repression with. &c. (restraint) 751.

Adj. concurring &c. v., concurrent, in alliance with, banded together, of one mind, at one with. Adv. with one consent.

V. counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere -, conflictwith; jostle; go -, run -, beatmilitate- against; stultify; antagonize, oppose &c. 708; withstand &c. (resist) 719; hinder &c. 706;

repress &c. (restrain) 751; react &c. (recoil) 277.

undo, neutralize; counterpoise &c. (compensate) 30; overpoise. Adj. counteracting &c. v.; antagonistic, conflicting, retroac tive, renitent, reactionary; contrary &c. 14.

Adv. although &c. 30; in spite of &c. 708; against.

CLASS II.

WORDS RELATING TO SPACE.

SECTION I. SPACE IN GENERAL.

1o. ABSTRACT SPACE.

180. [Indefinite space.] SPACE.

ness) 32.

180a. INEXTENSION.-N. in-, nonN. space, extension, extent, super-extension; point; atom &c. (smallficial extent, expanse; room, scope, range, latitude, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, play, swing, spread.

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spare -, elbow house- room; stowage, roomage, margin; opening, sphere, arena.

open -, free- space; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wild-, wilderness; moor, -land; campagna.

abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited space; infinity &c. 105; world; ubiquity &c. (presence) 186; length and breadth of the land.

proportions, acreage; acres, roods and perches; square inches, - yards &c.

Adj. spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widepread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless &c. (infinite) 105; shore-, track-, pathless.

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Adv. extensively &c. adj.; wherever; everywhere; far and wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world, length and breadth of the land; under the

181. [Definite space.] REGION. -N. region, sphere, ground, soil, area, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; pale &c. (limit) 233; com-, department; domain, tract, territory, country, canton, county, shire, province, arrondissement, parish, township, commune, ward, wapentake, hundred, riding; principality, duchy, kingdom."

arena, precincts, enciente, walk, march; patch, plot, enclosure, close, enclave, field, court; street &c. (abode) 189.

clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.

Adj. territorial, local, parochial, provincial.

182. [Limited space.] PLACE.— N. place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook &c. (corner) 244; hole; pigeon-hole &c. (receptacle) 191; compartment; premises, precinct, station; abode &c. 189; locality &c. (situation) 183.

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183. SITUATION.-N. situation, position, locality, status, latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose.

place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; bearings &c. (direction) 278; spot &c. (limited space) 182.

Top-, Ge-, Chor-ography; map &c. 554.

V.be -situated, - situate; lie; have its seat in.

Adj. situ-ate, -ated; local, topical, topographical &c. n. Adv. in situ, loco; here and there, passim; here-, there-, where-abouts; in place, here, there.

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185. DISPLACEMENT. N. displacement, elocation, transposition.

ejectment &c. 297; exile &c. (banishment) 893; removal &c. (transference) 270.

misplacement, dislocation &c. 61; fish out of water.

V. dis-place, -plant, -lodge, -es

plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization, domes-tablish; exile &c. (seclude) 893; abtication, situation; habitation &c. (abode) 189; cohabitation; "a local habitation and a name; " indenization, naturalization.

V. place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant &c. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; em-, im-bed; vest, invest in.

legate, set aside, remove; take -, cart- away; take-, draft- off; lade &c. 184.

unload, empty &c. (eject) 297; transfer &c. 270; dispel.

vacate; depart &c. 293.

Adj. displaced &c. v. ; un-placed, -housed, -harboured, -established, -settled; house-, home-less; out of -place, a situation. misplaced, out of its element.

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billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag.

inhabit &c. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take

strike- root; anchor; cast -, come to an- anchor; sit, settledown; settle; take up one's -abode, - quarters; plant –, establish -, locate- oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up -at,

horses at; keep house.

indenizen, naturalize, adopt.

put back, replace &c. (restore) 660,

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Adj. placed &c. v.; situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted; domesticated: vested in, unremoved. moored &c. v.; at anchor.

3°. EXISTENCE IN SPACE.

186. PRESENCE.-N. presence; occup-ancy, -ation; attendance; whereness.

permeation, pervasion; diffusion &c. (dispersion) 73. ubi-ety, -quity, -quitariness; omnipresence.

bystander &c. (spectator) 444.

V. exist in space, be -present &c. adj.; assister; make one -of, at; look on, attend, remain; find present- oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy.

people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge, nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode &c. (be located) 184; tenant. resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit.

fill, pervade, permeate; be -diffused, disseminated- through; over-spread, run; run through; meet one at every turn.

Adj. present; occupying, inhabiting &c. v.; moored &c. 184; resi-ant, -dent, -dentiary; domiciled.

ubiquit-ous, ary; omnipresent. peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited.

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nobody; nobody -present, on earth; not a soul; âme qui vive.

V. be absent &c. adj.; keep -away, - out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away.

withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away &c. 293.

Adj. absent, not present, away, non-resident, gone from home; missing; lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistent &c. 2.

empty, void; vac-ant, -uous; untenanted, -occupied, -inhabited; tenantless; desert, -ed; devoid; un-, unin-habitable.

exempt from, not having.

Adv. without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in default of; sans; behind one's back.

Phr. the bird has flown, non est

Adv. here, there, where, every-inventus. where, aboard, on board, at home, afield; on the spot; here there and

everywhere &c. (space) 180; in presence of, before; under the

-eyes, nose- of; in the face of; in propriá personá.

*Bishop Wilkins.

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