English words and phrases

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; designated driver; Encratite^†, fruitarian^†, hydropot^†.

V. be temperate &c adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare, swear off.

know when one has had enough, know one's limit.

take the pledge, go on the wagon.

Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured &c (sufficient) 639.

on the wagon, on the water wagon.

Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.

indulgence; high living, wild 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.

[drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [Coll.].

V. be intemperate &c adj.; indulge, exceed; live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog; 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.

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, maceration, 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.
956. Fasting -- N. fasting; xerophagy^†; famishment, starvation.

fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima^†; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre [Fr.], short commons, Barmecide feast^†; short rations.

epicurism; good living, high living; edacity^†, gulosity^†, crapulence^†; guttling^†, guzzling; pantophagy^†.

good cheer, blow out; feast &c (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de cuisine [Fr.].

epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius^†, gastronome; gourmet &c 954.1, 868.

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.

avaricious &c 819; selfish &c 918.

pampered; overfed, overgorged^†.

Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat.] [Horace].
958. Sobriety -- N. sobriety; teetotalism.

temperance &c 953.

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^†, wine bibbing; comtation^†, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender [U.S.].

oinomania^†, dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a potu [Fr.].

drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin [Slang], 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 [Slang], champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling^†; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.], whisky, xeres^†.

drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber^†, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal^†, Bacchante^†; devotee to Bacchus^†; bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.

liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off &c (drink up) 298; 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^†; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou^†, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant^†, glorious; potulent^†; squiffy [Slang]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled^†, sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy^†, muddled, muzzy^†, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous^†, dead drunk.

woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, 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 skunk, 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 [Lat.]; 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].
960. Purity -- N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity^†, pucelage^†, virginity.

vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.

virgin, unsullied; cherry [Coll.].

concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency^†, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism^†.

incontinence, intrigue, faux pas [Fr.]; amour, amourette^†; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish^†, libertinage^†, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation.

seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest.

prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration^†, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom^†, adultery, advoutry^†, crim.

con.; free love.

seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio^†, stew, bawdyhouse^†, cat house, lupanar^†, house of ill fame, bordel^†, bordello.

V. be impure &c adj.; intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery &c n..

Adj. impure; unclean &c (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque [Fr.], 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.

adulteress, advoutress^†, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie [Fr.]; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece [Fr.]; 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 [Fr.], bona roba [It].

pimp, procurer; pander, pandar^†; bawd, conciliatrix^†, procuress^†, mackerel, wittol^†.

legislature; law, code, corpus juris [Lat.], 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 [Lat.].

[Science of law] jurisprudence, nomology^†; legislation, codification.

equity, common law; lex [Lat.], lex nonscripta [Lat.]; law of nations, droit des gens [Fr.], international law, jus gentium [Lat.]; jus civile [Lat.]; civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law; lex mercatoria [Lat.].

constitutionalism, constitutionality; justice &c 922.

[institution for deciding questions of law] court, tribunal &c 966.

[person who presides at a court or tribunal] judge &c 967.

[specialist in questions of law] lawyer, attorney, legal counsel &c 968.

V. legalize; enact, ordain; decree &c (order) 741; pass a law, enact a regulation; legislate; codify, formulate; regulate.

Adj. legal, legitimate; according to law; vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized; lawful &c (permitted) 760; statutable^†, statutory; legislatorial, legislative; regulatory, regulated.

Adv. legally &c adj.; in the eye of the law; de jure [Lat.].

Phr. ignorantia legis neminem excusat [Lat.], ignorance of the law is no excuse; where law ends tyranny begins [Earl of Chatham].
964. [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality -- N. lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law; disobedience &c 742; unconformity &c 83.

arbitrariness &c adj.; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry.

mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat [Fr.]; le droit du plus fort [Fr.]; argumentum baculinum [Lat.].

illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister.

trover and conversion [Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony.

[person who violates the law] outlaw, bad man &c 949.

v.. offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.

smuggle, run, poach.

unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial^†, extrajudicial.

lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical^†; corrupt, summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable.

[of invalid or expired law] expired, invalid; unchartered, unconstitutional; null and void; a dead letter.

[in absence of law] lawless, unregulated

Adv. illegally &c adj.; with a high hand, in violation of law.
965. Jurisdiction [Executive.] -- N. jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc; executive, commission of the peace; magistracy &c (authority) 737.

judge &c 967; tribunal &c 966; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty [Brit.]; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve^†, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz [Sarc.]; constabulary, bumbledom^†, gendarmerie [Fr.].

officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop [Coll.], police constable, police sergeant; sbirro^†, alguazil^†, gendarme, kavass^†, lictor^†, mace bearer, huissier [Fr.], bedel^†; tithingman^†.

press gang; exciseman^†, gauger, gager^†, customhouse officer, douanier [Fr.].

coroner, edile^†, aedile^†, portreeve^†, paritor^†; posse comitatus [Lat.].

bureau, cutcherry^†, department, secretariat.

justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack^†; bar of justice; dock; forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead; jury box, witness box.

senate house, town hall, theater; House of Commons, House of Lords; statehouse [U.S.], townhouse.

assize, eyre; wardmote^†, burghmote^†; barmote^†; superior courts of Westminster; court of record, court oyer and terminer [Law], court assize, court of appeal, court of error; High court of Judicature, High court of Appeal; Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; Star Chamber; Court of Chancery, Court of King's or Queen's Bench, Court of Exchequer, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Probate, Court of Arches, Court of Admiralty; Lords Justices' court, Rolls court, Vice Chancellor's court, Stannary court^†, Divorce court, Family court, Palatine court, county court, district court, police court; sessions; quarter sessions, petty sessions; court-leet [Fr.], court-baron, court of pie poudre [Fr.], court of common council; board of green cloth.

court martial; drumhead court martial; durbar^†, divan; Areopagus^†; Irota.

Adj. judicial &c 965; appellate.

Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht [G.].
967. Judge -- N. judge; justice, justiciar^†, justiciary^†; chancellor; justice of assize, judge of assize; recorder, common sergeant; puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge; conservator of the peace, justice of the peace; J.P.; court &c (tribunal) 966; magistrate, police magistrate, beak [Slang]; his worship, his honor, his lordship.

jury, twelve men in a box.

Lord Chancellor, Lord Justice; Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor; Lord Chief Justice, Chief Baron; Mr.

Justice, Associate Justice, Chief Justice; Baron, Baron of the Exchequer.

jurat [Lat.], assessor; arbiter, arbitrator; umpire; referee, referendary^†; revising barrister; domesman^†; censor &c (critic) 480; barmaster^†, ephor^†; grand juror, grand juryman; juryman, talesman.

archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta^†, mollah^†, ulema, mufti, cadi^†, kadi^†; Rhadamanthus^†.

litigant &c (accusation) 938.

V. adjudge &c (determine) 480; try a case, try a prisoner.

Adj. judicial &c 965.

Phr. a Daniel come to judgment [Merchant of Venice].
968. Lawyer -- N. lawyer, attorney, legal counsel; counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law; jurist, legist^†, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult [Lat.], legal adviser, advocate; barrister, barrister at law; King's or Queen's counsel; K.C.; Q.C.; silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher; tubman^†, judge &c 967.

bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers; officer of the court; gentleman of the long robe; junior bar, outer bar, inner bar; equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader.

solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor^†; writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil^†.

legal beagle [Coll.].

give legal counsel, provide legal counsel.

citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment; accusation &c 938; presentment, true bill, indictment.

apprehension, arrest; committal; imprisonment &c (restraint) 751.

writ, summons, subpoena, latitat^†, nisi prius [Lat.]; venire, venire facias pleadings [Lat.]; declaration, bill, claim; proces verbal [Fr.]; bill of right, information, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts; answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter^†, surrejoinder^†.

suitor, party to a suit; plaintiff, defendant, litigant &c 938.

hearing, trial; verdict &c (judgment) 480; appeal, appeal motion; writ of error; certiorari [Lat.].

case; decision, precedent; decided case, reports (legal reference works, see reference books)..

V. go to law, appeal to the law; bring to justice, bring to trial, bring to the bar; put on trial, pull up; accuse &c 938; prefer a claim, file a claim &c n.; take the law of, inform against.

serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge &c (restrain) 751.

empanel a jury, implead^†, join issue; close the pleadings; set down for hearing.

try, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate &c 480.