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pass, pass away -, spend -, while away -, consume against- time; tide over; use -, employ- time; seize an opportunity &c. 134; waste time &c. (be inactive) 683.

Adj. continuing &c. v.; on foot; permanent &c. (durable) 110. Ado. while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, - interval; in the course of; for the time being, day by day; in the time of, when; mean-time, -while; in the meantime, - interim; ad interim, pendente lite; de die in diem; from day to day, hour to hour &c.; hourly, always; for a -time, - season; till, until, up to, yet; the whole, all the time; all along; throughout &c. (completely) 52; for good &c. (diuturnity) 110.

here, there-, where-upon; then; anno, - Domini; A.D.; ante Christum; A.c.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis condita; A.U.C.; anno regni, A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning. Phr. time -runs, runs against.

109. [Indefinite duration.

108. [Definite duration, or portion of time. ] PERIOD.-N. period; | COURSE.-N. course, progress -, second, minute, hour, day, week, process, succession, lapse-, month, quarter, year, decade, de-flow flux, stream cennium, lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation.

century, age, millennium; annus

magnus.

Adj. horary; hourly, annual &c. (periodical) 138.

108a. CONTINGENT DURATION.

tract-,

current, tide, march, step -, flight- of time; duration &c. 106. Indefinite time] aorist.

V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll, wear press- on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.

out; expire; go -, pass- by; be -Ado. during-pleasure, -good be--past &c. 122.

haviour; quamdiu se bene gesserit. Adj. elapsing &c. v.; aoristic;

progressive.

Ado. in due-time, – season; in -course, – process, – the fulnessof time; in time.

Phr. labitur et labetur; truditur dies die; fugaces labuntur anni; "to-morrow and to-morrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day."

110. [Long duration.] DIUTURNITY.-N. diuturnity; a -long -, length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness &c. 275; perpetuity &c. 112.

111. [Short duration.] TRANSIENTNESS.-N. transientness &c. adj.; evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, dura-bleness, -bility; persist-May-fly; spurt; temporary arrangeence, lastingness &c. adj.; contin- ment, interregnum. uance, standing; permanence &c. (stability) 150; survi-val, -vance; longevity &c. (age) 128; distance of time.

velocity &c. 274; suddenness &c. 113; changeableness &c. 149.

V. be transient &c. adj.; flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, protraction - prolongation -, fade, evaporate; pass away like a extension- of time; delay &c. (late--cloud, - summer cloud, - shadow, ness) 133.

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Adj. transi-ent, -tory, -tive; passing, evanescent, fleeting; flying &c. v.; fug-acious, -itive; shifting, slippery; spasmodic.

tempor-al, - ary; provis-ional, -ory; cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, deciduous; perishable, mortal, precarious; impermanent.

brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time &c. (haste) 684; sudden, momentary &c. (instantaneous) 113.

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Adv. temporarily &c. adj.; pro tempore; for the moment, time; awhile, en passant, in transitu; in a short time; soon &c. (early) 132; briefly &c. adj.; at short notice; on the -point, - eve

Adj. durable; lasting &c. v.; of long duration, standing; permanent, chronic, long-standing; intransi-ent, -tive; intransmutable, persistent; life-, live-long; longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; unin-, ter-, unre-mitting; perpetual-of; in articulo. &c. 112.

lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out &c. v.; long-pending, -winded; slow &c. 275.

Adv. long; for a long time,

ever so long,

an age,
many a long day; long ago &c.

(in a past time) 122; longo intervallo.

Phr. one's days are numbered; the time is up; here to-day and gone to-morrow; non semper erit astas; eheu! fugaces labuntur anni; sic transit gloria mundi.

all the -day long, - year round; the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day, &c.; for good; permanently &c. adj.

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112. [Endless duration.] PERPETUITY.-N. perpetuity, eternity, everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; everlastingness &c. adj.; perpetuation.

V. last - endure, go on- for ever; have no end.

eternize, perpetuate.

Adj. perpetual, eternal; everlasting, living, -flowing; continual, sempiternal; co-eternal; endless, unending; ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine; never-ending, dying, -fading; deathless, immortal, undying, imperishable.

* Bishop Wilkins.

113. [Point of time.] INSTANTANEITY.-N. instantane-ity, -ousness; sudden-, abrupt-ness.

moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath, crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time.

epoch, time; time of day, night; hour, minute; very -minute &c., time, hour; present -, right -, true -, exact - correcttime.

V. be instantaneous &c. adj.; twinkle, flash.

Adj. instantaneous, momentary, sudden, instant, abrupt; subitaneous, hasty; quick as thought, † lightning; rapid as electricity.

See note on 264.

chrono-grapher, -loger, -logist; annalist.

V. fix -, mark- the time; date, register, chronicle; measure -, beat, mark- time; bear date.

Adj. chrono-logical, -metrical, -grammatical.

-ent; anterior, antecedent; pre-ex-vi-al, -an; puisné; posthumous; isting, -existent; former, fore- future &c. 121. going; before-, above-mentioned; Ade. subsequently, after, afteraforesaid, said; introductory &c. wards, since, later; at a -subse(precursory) 64. quent, later- period; next, in the sequel, close upon, thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons; from that -time, moment; after a - while, time; in process of

Adv. before, prior to; earlier; previously &c. adj.; afore, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere before--then, now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of.

time.

until now; to this, the present-day.

120. SYNCHRONISM.-N. synchronism; coexistence, coincidence; simultaneousness &c. adj.; concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim.

[Having equal times] isochronism.

contemporary, coetanian.

V. coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with; synchronize.

Adj. synchron-ous, -al, -ical, -istical; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coev-al, -ous; contempora-ry, -neous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous.

Adv. at the same time; simultaneously &c. adj.; together, during the same time; in the same breath; pari passu; in the interim.

at the very moment &c. 113; just as; as soon as; meanwhile &c. (while) 106.

121. [Prospective time.] FUTURITY.-N. futur-ity, -ition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching-, coming, after- -time, age,

122. [Retrospective time.] PRETERITION.—N. preterition; priority &c. 116; the past, past time; days, times- of yore, of old,

years, ages,

- days, - hours,
life; morrow; millennium, dooms-
day, day of judgment, crack of
doom, remote future.

approach of time, advent, time
drawing on, womb of time; des-
tiny &c. 152; eventuality.
heritage, heirs, posterity.
prospect &c. (expectation) 507;
foresight &c. 510.

V. look forwards; anticipate &c. (expect) 507, (foresee) 510; forestall &c. (be early) 132.

come-, draw- on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend &c. (be destined) 152.

laudator temporis acti; mediavalist, pre-Raphaelite; antiqu-ary-arian; archæologist &c.; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.

ancestry &c. (paternity) 166.

V. be -past &c. adj.; have -ex- .

Adj. future, to come; coming &c. (impending) 152; next, near; near-, close at hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect &c. (expecta-pired &c. adj., – run its course, tion) 507. had its day; pass; pass, go--by, - away, off; lapse, blow over. look cast the eyestrace back; exhume.

Adv. prospectively, hereafter, in future; to-morrow, the day after to-morrow; in -course, process, the fulness- of time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in after time; one of these days; after a -time, while.

Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, that has been, extinct, never from this time; hence-forth, -for- to return, exploded, forgotten, irwards; thence; thence-forth, -for-recoverable; obsolete &c. (old) 124. ward; whereupon, upon which. soon &c. (early) 132; on the -eve, point, brink- of; about to; close upon.

former, pristine, quondam, cidevant, late; ancestral.

foregoing; last, latter; recent, over-night; preter-perfect, -pluperfect.

looking back &c. .; retro-spective, -active; archæological, &c. n. Ado. formerly; of -old, -yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over; in the olden time &c. n; anciently, long ago, - since; a long while, time- ago; years, ages- ago; some time ago, since, back.

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season,

yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, month &c.; ultimo; lately &c. (newly) 123. retrospectively; ere before - till- now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once, upon a time; from time immemorial; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto.

Phr. time was; the time -has, - hath been.

* Whewell.