English words and phrases

taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive^†, inconversable^†, curt; reserved; reticent &c (concealing) 528.

platform &c 542; plank; audience &c (interview) 588.

take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.

lecture &c (make a speech) 582.

Int. soho!^†, halloo!, hey!, hist!,
587. Response -- N. &c see Answer 462.
588. Conversation -- N. conversation, interlocution; collocution^†, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.

causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk^†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement^†; tripotage^†, cackle, prittle-prattle^†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village.

conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress &c (council) 696; powwow [U.S.].

hall of audience, durbar^†.

palaver, debate, logomachy^†, war of words.

gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c (loquacity) 584; interlocutor &c (spokesman) 582; conversationist^†, dialogist^†.

the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].

V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate &c (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.].

discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.

writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae [Lat.]; these presents.

stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink.

letter &c 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi^†, Devanagari, Nagari; script.

shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy^†, tachygraphy^†; secret writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography^†, pasigraphy^†, Polygraphy^†, logography^†.

copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.

calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand.

cacography^†, griffonage^†, barbouillage^†; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers.

stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.

transcription &c (copy) 21; inscription &c (record) 551; superscription &c (indication) 550; graphology.

composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi [Lat.]; graphoidea^†, graphomania^†; phrenoia^†.

writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press &c (author) 593.

compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold.

take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.

Adj. writing &c v.; written &c v.; in writing, in black and white; under one's hand.

uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical^†.

print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.

typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype^†; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals &c (letters) 561; brevier^†, bourgeois, pica boldface &c, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype^†; [point system], 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work; reglet^†, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.

folio &c (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.

printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil copyholder.

V. print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press, see through the press; publish &c 531; bring out; appear in print, rush into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.

Adj. printed &c v.; in type; typographical &c n.; solid in galleys.
592. Correspondence -- N. correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty^†, letter card, picture post card; postal [U.S.], card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription^†; post &c (messenger) 534.

V. correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a correspondence.

Adj. epistolary.

Phr. furor scribendi [Lat.].
593. Book -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule^†; tract, tractate^†; livret^†; brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion^†, circular, publication; chap book.

part, issue, number livraison [Fr.]; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.

paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet^†; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page; quire, ream.

[subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.

folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo^†, sextodecimo^†, octodecimo^†.

encyclopedia; encompilation^†.

[collection of books] library, bibliotheca^†.

press &c (publication) 531.

bookseller, publisher; bibliopole^†, bibliopolist^†; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.

knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c (knowledge) 490.

Phr. among the giant fossils of my past [E.

B.

Browning]; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux [Fr.]; for authors nobler palms remain [Pope]; I lived to write and wrote to live [Rogers]; look in thy heart and write [Sidney]; there is no Past so long as Books shall live [Bulwer Lytton]; the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers [Disraeli]; volumes that I prize above my dukedom [Tempest].

delineation &c (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.

historiography^†, chronography^†; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary.

narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c (chronicle) 551; saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette^†; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana^†, trait.

work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue^†; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator &c v.; raconteur, historian &c (recorder) 553; biographer, fabulist^†, novelist.

V. describe; set forth &c (state) 535; draw a picture, picture; portray &c (represent) 554; characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again.

unfold a tale &c (disclose) 529; tell; give an account of, render an account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement.

detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to particulars, descend to details; itemize.

Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic^†, storied; described &c v..

Phr. furor scribendi [Lat.].
595. Dissertation -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis, theme; monograph, tract, tractate^†, tractation^†; discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect^†; excursus.

commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading article; editorial; running commentary.

investigation &c (inquiry) 461; study &c (consideration) 451; discussion &c (reasoning) 476; exposition &c (explanation) 522.

commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer.

hold forth [oral dissertation], discourse, delve into.

album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta^†, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium^†, flowers, anthology, collectanea^†, analecta^†; compilation.

recapitulation, resume, review.

abbreviation, abbreviature^†; contraction; shortening &c 201; compression &c 195.

abbreviate &c (shorten) 201; condense &c (compress) 195; compile &c (collect) 72.

versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry^†.

poem; epic, epic poem; epopee^†, epopoea, ode, epode^†, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic^†, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau [Fr.], rondo, madrigal, canzonet^†, cento^†, monody [Slang], elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal^†, palinode.

dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song; lullaby; music &c 415; nursery rhymes.

canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain; strophe, antistrophe^†.

verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo^†, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation &c (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis^†, antispast^†, blank verse, ictus.

elegiacs &c adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.

poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^†, scald, skald^†, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger [G.]; improvisatore^†; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist^†, rhymester; ballad monger, runer^†; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].

V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.

Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c n.; metrical; a catalectin^†; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic^†; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic^†; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic^†, Pindaric.

Phr. a poem round and perfect as a star [Alex.

Smith]; Dichtung und Wahrheit [G.]; furor poeticus [Lat.]; his virtues formed the magic of his song [Hayley]; I do but sing because I must [Tennyson]; I learnt life from the poets [de Stael]; licentia vatum [Lat.]; mutum est pictura poema [Lat.]; O for a muse of fire! [Henry V]; sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge [Sidney]; the true poem is the poet's mind [Emerson]; Volk der Dichter und Denker [G.]; wisdom married to immortal verse [Wordsworth].

prosaicism^†, prosaism^†, prosaist^†, proser^†.

write prose, write in prose.

rhymeless^†, unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.

play, drama, stage play, piece [Fr.], five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta^†, lever de rideau [Fr.], interlude, afterpiece^†, exode^†, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta^†, harlequinade^†, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe [Fr.], ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame [Fr.]; melodrama, melodrame^†; comidie larmoyante [Fr.], sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue; duologue trilogy^†; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue; libretto.

performance, representation, mise en scene [Fr.], stagery^†, jeu de theatre [Fr.]; acting; gesture &c 550; impersonation &c 554; stage business, gag, buffoonery.

light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy.

theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini^†; marionettes, Punch and Judy.

auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom, coulisses [Fr.].

flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium.

stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies; floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.

theatrical costume, theatrical properties.

movie studio, back lot, on location.

part, role, character, dramatis personae [Lat.]; repertoire.

actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer^†; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter [Slang]; masker^†.

pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo^†, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello^†; pulcinello^†, pulcinella^†; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante^†, general utility; super, supernumerary.

company; first tragedian, prima donna [Sp.], protagonist; jeune premier [Fr.]; debutant, debutante [Fr.]; light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso^†, heavy father, ingenue [Fr.], jeune veuve [Fr.].

mummer, guiser^†, guisard^†, gysart^†, masque.

mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse [Fr.].

property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager; director, stage manager, acting manager.

producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel [Fig.].

dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist, mimographer^†.

V. act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate &c 554; mimic &c (imitate) 19; enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; strut and fret one's hour upon a stage; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.

Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined^†, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.

Adv. on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before an audience; behind the scenes.

Phr. fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Lat.] [Petronius Arbiter]; suit the action to the word, the word to the action [Hamlet]; the play's the thing [Hamlet]; to wake the soul by tender strokes of art [Pope].
CLASS V

WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS

DIVISION I

INDIVIDUAL VOLITION

VOLITION IN GENERAL

pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind &c (inclination) 602; intention &c 620; predetermination &c 611; selfcontrol &c; determination &c (resolution) 604; force of will.

have a will of one's own; do what one chooses &c (freedom) 748; have it all.one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way.

use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority; originate &c (cause) 153.

Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free &c 748; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient^†, volitive^†.

minded &c (willing) 602; prepense &c (predetermined) 611 [Obs.]; intended &c 620; autocratic; unbidden &c (bid) &c 741; spontaneous; original &c (casual) 153; unconstrained.

of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu [Lat.], suo motu [Lat.], ex meromotu [Lat.]; out of one's won head; by choice &c 609; purposely &c (intentionally) 620; deliberately &c 611.