ORDER
1. ORDER IN GENERAL
58. Order — N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo
[Lat.]; music of the spheres.
gradation, progression; series &c (continuity) 69.
subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition,
arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness &c adj..
rank, place &c (term) 71.
V. be in order, become in order &c adj.; form, fall in, draw up;
arrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take
one's place, take one's rank; rally round.
adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
Adj. orderly, regular; in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its
proper place; neat, tidy, en regle [Fr.], well regulated, correct,
methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic;
unconfused &c (confuse) &c 61; arranged &c 60.
Adv. in order; methodically &c adj.; in turn, in its turn; by steps,
step by step; by regular steps, by regular gradations, by regular
stages, by regular intervals; seriatim, systematically, by clockwork,
gradatim [Lat.]; at stated periods &c (periodically) 138.
Phr. natura non facit saltum [Lat.]; order is heaven's first law
[Pope]; order from disorder sprung [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium
dispariumque rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio [Lat.] [St.
Augustine].
59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c] Disorder — N. disorder;
derangement &c 61; irregularity; anomaly &c (unconformity) 83; anarchy,
anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c adj.; disunion; discord &c 24.
confusion; confusedness &c adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble,
huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage†; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss
[U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch†, hotch-pot†; imbroglio, chaos,
omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley; mere mixture &c 41; fortuitous
concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles
[Lat.] [Ovid].
complexity &c 59.1.
turmoil; ferment &c (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder†,
pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar,
revolution, riot, rumpus, stour†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb,
fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill
and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind &c 349; bear garden, Babel,
Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded,
most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.]; Bedlam, all hell broke
loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre
[Fr.], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work [Fr.],
pretty piece of business [Fr.].
[legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence;
misdemeanor.
[moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.
V. be disorderly &c adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
put out of order; derange &c 61; ravel &c 219; ruffle, rumple.
Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
irregular, desultory; anomalous &c (unconformable) 83; acephalous†,
deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical,
immethodical†; unsymmetric†, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated;
out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical;
unarranged &c (arrange) &c 60; confused; deranged &c 61; topsy-turvy &c
(inverted) 218; shapeless &c 241; disjointed, out of joint.
troublous†; riotous &c (violent) 173.
complex &c 59.1.
Adv. irregularly &c adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a
ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c 218.
Phr. the cart before the horse; hysteron proteron [Gr.]; chaos is come
again; the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds [Addison].
59a. Complexity — N. complexity; complexness &c adj.; complexus†;
complication, implication; intricacy, intrication†; perplexity; network,
labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil
&c (convolution) 248; sleave†, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels
within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl†; webwork†.
[complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c 704.
V. complexify†, complicate.
Adj. gnarled, knarled†.
complex, complexed; intricate, complicated, perplexed, involved,
raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled, inextricable; irreducible.
60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement — N. arrangement; plan &c 626;
preparation &c 673; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation;
distribution; sorting &c v.; assortment, allotment, apportionment,
taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis†, graduation, organization; grouping;
tabulation.
analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion.
[Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis &c (compendium) 596;
syntagma [Gramm.], table, atlas; file, database; register.
&c (record) 551; organism, architecture.
[Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter.
V. reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally.
arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place
in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group,
parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts;
dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to
rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array;
apportion.
class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register
&c (record) 551; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.
methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle,
fix.
unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil†; feaze†.
Adj. arranged &c v.; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried;
methodical, orderly, regular, systematic.
Phr. In vast cumbrous array [Churchill].
61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement — N.
derangement &c v.; disorder &c 59; evection†, discomposure, disturbance;
disorganization, deorganization†; dislocation; perturbation,
interruption; shuffling &c v.; inversion &c 218; corrugation &c (fold)
258; involvement.
interchange &c 148.
V. derange; disarrange, misarrange†; displace, misplace; mislay,
discompose, disorder; deorganize†, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil,
unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle,
randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into
disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c 59; muss [U.S.];
break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.
unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.
turn topsy-turvy &c (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve,
perplex, confound; imbrangle†, embrangle†, tangle, entangle, ravel,
tousle, towzle†, dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c (fold) 258.
litter, scatter; mix &c 41.
rearrange &c 148.
Adj. deranged &c v.; syncretic, syncretistic†; mussy, messy; flaky;
random, unordered [U.S.].
2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER
62. Precedence — N. precedence; coming before &c v.; the lead, le pas;
superiority &c 33; importance &c 642; antecedence, antecedency†;
anteriority &c (front) 234; precursor &c 64; priority &c 116;
precession &c 280; anteposition†; epacme†; preference.
V. precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead
the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have
the pas; set the fashion &c (influence) 175; open the ball; take
precedence, have precedence; have the start &c (get before) 280.
place before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface.
Adj. preceding &c v.; precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior &c 116;
before; former; foregoing; beforementioned†, abovementioned†,
aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive†; prevenient†,
preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial†,
preparatory.
Adv. before; in advance &c (precession) 280.
Phr. seniores priores [Lat.]; prior tempore prior jure [Lat.].
63. Sequence — N. sequence, coming after; going after &c (following)
281; consecution, succession; posteriority &c 117.
continuation; order of succession; successiveness; paracme†.
secondariness†; subordinancy &c (inferiority) 34.
afterbirth, afterburden†; placenta, secundines [Med.].
V. succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into
the shoes of; alternate.
place after, suffix, append.
Adj. succeeding &c; v.; sequent†; subsequent, consequent, sequacious†,
proximate, next; consecutive &c (continuity) 69; alternate, amoebean†.
latter; posterior &c 117.
Adv. after, subsequently; behind &c (rear) 235.
64. Precursor — N. precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor;
forerunner, vancourier†, avant-coureur [Fr.], pioneer, prodrome†,
prodromos†, prodromus†, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger;
foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare†, forelooper†,
foreloper†, stalking-horse, voorlooper [Afrik.], voortrekker [Afrik.].
prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos
[Fr.], protasis†, proemium†, prolusion†, proem, prolepsis [Gramm.],
prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork;
preparation &c 673; overture, exordium [Lat.], symphony; premises.
prefigurement &c 511; omen &c 512.
Adj. precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious†; proemial†,
introductory, prefatory, prodromous†, inaugural, preliminary; precedent
&c (prior) 116.
Phr. a precedent embalms a principle [Disraeli].
65. Sequel — N. sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake,
trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue;
peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela†; appendage; tail piece
[Fr.], heelpiece†; tag, more last words; colophon.
aftercome†, aftergrowth†, afterpart†, afterpiece†, aftercourse†,
afterthought, aftergame†; arriere pensee [Fr.], second thoughts;
outgrowth.
66. Beginning — N. beginning, commencement, opening, outset,
incipience, inception, inchoation†; introduction &c (precursor) 64;
alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation [Fr.],
rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt;
initiative, move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the
wedge; fresh start, new departure.
origin &c (cause) 153; source, rise; bud, germ &c 153; egg,
rudiment; genesis, primogenesis†, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy;
start, inception, creation, starting point &c 293; dawn &c (morning)
125; evolution.
title-page; head, heading; van &c (front) 234; caption, fatihah†.
entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch,
portal, portico, propylon†, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket,
threshold, vestibule; propylaeum†; skirts, border &c (edge) 231.
first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first
sight.
rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC.
V. begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its rise,
enter upon, enter; set out &c (depart) 293; embark in; incept†.
initiate, launch, inaugurate.
inchoate, rise, arise, originate.
usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the
initiative; head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the
foundations &c (prepare) 673; found &c (cause) 153; set up, set on
foot, agoing†, set abroach†, set the ball in motion; apply the match to
a train; broach; open up, open the door to.
get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set to; make a
beginning, make a start.
handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first
turf; break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross
the Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake &c
676.
come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take
birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, spring forth, crop up, pop
up, appear, materialize.
begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo [Lat.].
begin again, begin de novo; start afresh, make a fresh start, take
it from the top, shuffle the cards, reshuffle the cards, resume,
recommence.
Adj. beginning &c v.; initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive,
introductory, incipient; proemial†, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative†;
embryonic, rudimental; primogenial†; primeval, primitive, primordial &c
(old) 124; aboriginal; natal, nascent.
first, foremost, leading; maiden.
begun &c v.; just begun &c v..
Adv. at the beginning, in the beginning, &c n.; first, in the first
place, imprimis [Lat.], first and foremost; in limine [Lat.]; in the
bud, in embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab
initio [Lat.], ab ovo [Lat.], ab incunabilis [Lat.], ab origine [Lat.].
Phr. let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at
'em!; aller Anfang ist schwer [G.], dimidium facti qui coepit habet
[Lat.] [Cicero]; omnium rerum principia parva sunt [Lat.] [Cicero].
67. End — N. end, close, termination; desinence†, conclusion, finis,
finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme,
extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail &c
(rear) 235; verge &c (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche [Fr.];
bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.
consummation, denouement; finish &c (completion) 729; fate; doom,
doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the
curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry†,
extinction, extermination; death &c 360; end of all things; finality;
eschatology.
break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup
de grace, deathblow; knock-out-blow; sockdolager [U.S.].
V. end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die &c
360; come-, draw-to-a-close &c n.; have run its course; run out, pass
away.
bring to an end &c n.; put an end to, make an end of; determine;
get through; achieve &c (complete) 729; stop &c (make to cease) 142;
shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.
Adj. ending &c v.; final, terminal, definitive; crowning &c
(completing) 729; last, ultimate; hindermost†; rear &c 235; caudal;
vergent†.
conterminate†, conterminous, conterminable†.
ended &c v.; at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at
rest; conclusive.
penultimate; last but one, last but two, &c unbegun, uncommenced†;
fresh.
Adv. finally &c adj.; in fine; at the last; once for all.
Phr. as high as Heaven and as deep as hell [Beaumont and Fletcher];
deficit omne quod nascitur [Lat.] [Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut
considerer la fin [Fr.]; finem respice [Lat.]; ultimus Romanorum
[Lat.].
68. Middle — N. middle, midst, mediety†, mean &c 29; medium, middle
term; center &c 222, mid-course &c 628; mezzo termine [It]; juste
milieu &c 628 [Fr.]; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos†; nucleus,
nucleolus.
equidistance†, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm,
midriff; intermediate &c 228.
Adj. middle, medial, mesial [Med.], mean, mid, median, average;
middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate &c (interjacent) 228;
equidistant; central &c 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.
Adv. in the middle; midway, halfway; midships†, amidships, in medias
res.
69. [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity — N. continuity; consecution,
consecutiveness &c adj.; succession, round, suite, progression, series,
train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course;
ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file,
line of battle, array.
pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family,
house; line, line of ancestors; strain.
rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit;
colonnade.
V. follow in a series, form a series &c n.; fall in.
arrange in a series, collate &c n.; string together, file, thread,
graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial,
successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c
n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting†; unremitting, unrelenting
(perseverence) 604.1; perennial, evergreen; constant.
Adv. continuously &c adj.; seriatim; in a line &c n.; in succession, in
turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim [Lat.], at a stretch;
in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.
70. [Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity — N. discontinuity;
disjunction &c 44; anacoluthon†; interruption, break, fracture, flaw,
fault, crack, cut; gap &c (interval) 198; solution of continuity,
caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork;
intermission; alternation &c (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.
V. be discontinuous &c adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and
start, hesitate.
discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon,
break off; interpose &c 228; break the thread, snap the thread;
disconnect &c (disjoin) 44; dissever.
Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive†, broken, interrupted, dicousu [Fr.];
disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful &c (irregular)
139; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional &c v.,
intermittent; alternate; recurrent &c (periodic) 138.
Adv. at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits
and starts; skippingly†, per saltum [Lat.]; longo intervallo [It].
Phr. like 'angel visits few and far between' [Campbell].
71. Term — N. term, rank, station, stage, step; degree &c 26; scale,
remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place,
point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.
V. hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place &c n..
3. COLLECTIVE ORDER
72. Assemblage — N. {opp.
73} assemblage; collection, collocation, colligation†; compilation,
levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement†; team; concourse,
conflux†, congregation, contesseration†, convergence &c 290; meeting,
levee, reunion, drawing room, at home; conversazione [It] &c (social
gathering) 892; assembly, congress; convention, conventicle; gemote†;
conclave &c (council) 696; posse, posse comitatus [Lat.]; Noah's ark.
miscellany, collectanea†; museum, menagerie &c (store) 636;
museology†.
crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press,
crush, cohue†, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party;
swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo†; bunch, drive,
force, mulada [U.S.]; remuda†; roundup [U.S.]; array, bevy, galaxy;
corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c
(combatants) 726; host &c (multitude) 102; populousness.
clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c (party)
712.
volley, shower, storm, cloud.
group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack;
budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine†,
fasces†, bale; seron†, seroon†; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick,
fardel†, stack, sheaf, haycock†; fascicle, fascicule†, fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel, hattock†, stook†.
accumulation &c (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau†,
tissue, mass, pyramid; bing†; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation†,
cumulation; glomeration†, agglomeration; conglobation†; conglomeration,
conglomerate; coacervate [Chem], coacervation [Chem], coagmentation†,
aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†, black hole of Calcutta; quantity &c (greatness) 31.
collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.
V. assemble [be or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join,
rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng,
associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center
round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig
together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.
[get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get
together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together;
collect, collocate, colligate†; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting;
convene, convoke, convocate†; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack,
put up, truss, cram; acervate†; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group,
aggroup†, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus;
amass, accumulate &c (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon
Pelion.
Adj. assembled &c v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to
suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a
heap, fasciculated cumulative.
Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim [Lat.]; tibi seris tibi metis [Lat.].
73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion — N. {opp.
72} dispersion; disjunction &c 44; divergence &c 291; aspersion;
scattering &c v.; dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution;
apportionment &c 786; spread, respersion†, circumfusion†, interspersion,
spargefaction†; affusion†.
waifs and estrays†, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra [Lat.],
[Horace]; waveson†.
V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed,
spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember,
distribute; apportion &c 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth,
draught off; strew, straw, strow†; ted; spirtle†, cast, sprinkle; issue,
deal out, retail, utter; resperse†, intersperse; set abroach†,
circumfuse†.
turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds; spread like
wildfire, disperse themselves.
Adj. unassembled &c (assemble) &c 72; dispersed &c v.; sparse,
dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c (general) 78;
adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.
Adv. sparsim†, here and there, passim.
74. [Place of meeting.] Focus — N. focus; point of convergence &c 290;
corradiation†; center &c 222; gathering place, resort haunt retreat;
venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot &c
(store) 636; trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place
of assignation; point de reunion; issue.
V. bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.
4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER
75. Class — N. class, division, category, categorema†, head, order,
section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.
kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race,
tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset;
assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.
manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character,
stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection,
specification.
similarity &c 17.
76. [Comprehension under, or reference to a class.] Inclusion — N.
{opp.
77} inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception.
composition &c (inclusion in a compound) 54.
V. be included in &c; come under, fall under, range under; belong to,
pertain to; range with; merge in.
include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive;
inclose &c (circumscribe) 229; embody, encircle.
reckon among, enumerate among, number among; refer to; place with,
arrange with, place under; take into account.
Adj. included, including &c v.; inclusive; congener, congenerous; of
the same class &c 75; encircling.
Phr. a maximis ad minima [Lat.], et hoc genus omne [Lat.], &c etc.; et
coetera [Lat.].
77. Exclusion — N. {opp.
76} exclusion &c 55.
78. Generality — N. {opp.
79} generality, generalization; universality; catholicity,
catholicism; miscellany, miscellaneousness†; dragnet; common run;
worldwideness†.
everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife;
anybody, N or M, all sorts.
prevalence, run.
V. be general &c adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.
render general &c adj.; generalize.
Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping;
encyclopedical†, widespread &c (dispersed) 73.
universal; catholic, catholical†; common, worldwide; ecumenical,
oecumenical†; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic,
besetting; all over, covered with.
Pan-American, Anglican†, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic;
panharmonic†.
every, all; unspecified, impersonal.
customary &c (habitual) 613.
Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.
generally &c adj.; always, for better for worse; in general,
generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long
run &c (on an average) 29.
79. Speciality — N. {opp.
78} speciality, specialite†; individuality, individuity†;
particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c (tendency) 176; personality,
characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy; specificness &c adj.†;
singularity &c (unconformity) 83; reading, version, lection; state;
trait; distinctive feature; technicality; differentia.
particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae.
I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself.
V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize,
designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.
descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to
the point.
Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal,
original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial,
certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate,
several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular &c
(exceptional) 83; idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.
this, that; yon, yonder.
Adv. specially, especially, particularly &c adj.; in particular, in
propria persona [Lat.]; ad hominem [Lat.]; for my part.
each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively,
each to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating
detail, in mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice [Lat.], pro re
nata [Lat.].
namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia
[Lat.], e.g., i.e., videlicet, viz.; to wit.
Phr. le style est l'homme meme [Fr.].
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.
dissimilarity &c 18.
Adj. polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous†,
multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied,
variform†; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene,
indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted,
mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of
all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne [Lat.]; and what not? de omnibus
rebus et quibusdam aliis [Lat.].
jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched,
unrelated, nonuniform.
omniform†, omnigenous†, omnifarious†; protean (form) 240.
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 [Fr.]; 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 [Fr.], selon les regles [Fr.], 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 [Lat.], shipshape, technical.
exempIe [Fr.].
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 [Lat.], instar omnium [Lat.]; more solito [Lat.],
more-majorum.
for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro
forma [Lat.], for form's sake, by the card.
invariably, &c (uniformly) 16.
for example, exempli gratia [Lat.], e.g.; inter alia [Lat.], among
other things; for instance.
Phr. cela va sans dire [Fr.]; ex pede Herculem [Lat.]; noscitur a
sociis [Lat.]; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Lat.] [Erasmus]; they
are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations [Bacon].
The nail that sticks up hammered down [Jap.Tr.]; Tall poppy
syndrome; Stick your neck out and it may get cut off.
83. Unconformity — N. {opp.
82} 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
[Fr.], monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo,
mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.].
individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.
aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo
&c (qualification) 469.
nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch,
nonsuch†, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish,
black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae [Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer
fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis
[Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.],
hermaphrodite.
[Mythical animals] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur;
griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary†; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc,
dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk†; unicorn; Cyclops, men
whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders [Othello]; teratology.
[unconformable to the surroundings] 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 a law, 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,
curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous;
wonderful &c 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the
way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui
generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre;
outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized†.
heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel,
amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal†;
asymmetric &c 243; adelomorphous†, bisexual, hermaphrodite,
monoclinous†.
qualified &c 469.
singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.
newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional,
unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled,
unexampled.
Adv. unconformably &c adj.; except, unless, save barring, beside,
without, save and except, let alone.
however, yet, but.
once in a blue moon, once in a million years.
Int. what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!,
Can you top that?; Sacre bleu [Fr.].
Phr. never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known
the like.
I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it.