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.
Adj. intemperate,inabstinent[obs3]; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
brutish, crapulous[obs3], 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].
<-- r954a sensualist
and part of 955 ascetic to person P2.3.2.3.2.5.25 -- N. -->
#955. Asceticism. -- N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism[obs3]; cynicism[obs2], austerity; total abstinence; nephalism[obs3].
mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance &c. 952; fasting &c. 956; martyrdom.
Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious; acerbic.
#956. Fasting. -- N. fasting; xerophagy[obs3]; famishment, starvation.
fast, jour maigre[Fr]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima[obs3]; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre[Fr], short commons, Barmecide feast[obs3]; short rations.
V. fast, starve, clem[obs1], famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey[obs3]; make two bites of a cherry.
Adj. lenten, quadragesimal[obs3]; unfed[obs3]; starved &c.v.; half-starved; fasting &c. v.; hungry &c. 865.
#957. Gluttony. -- N. {{high_intensity_of: desire, R865}} gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness &c. adj.; voracity.
epicurism; good living, high living; edacity[obs3], gulosity[obs3], crapulence[obs3]; guttling[obs3], guzzling; pantophagy[obs3].
good cheer, blow out; feast &c. (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de cuisine[Fr].
epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius[obs3], gastronome; gourmet &c. 954a, 868.
v. gormandize, gorge; overgorge[obs3], overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle[obs3], guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp &c. (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork &c. (appetite) 865.
pamper.
Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c.v.; edacious[obs3], omnivorous, crapulent[obs3], swinish.
avaricious &c. 819; selfish &c. 918.
pampered; overfed, overgorged[obs3].
Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat][Horace].
#958. Sobriety. -- N. sobriety; teetotalism.
temperance &c. 953.
water-drinker; hydropot[obs2]; 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..
inebriety[obs3], inebriation; ebriety[obs3], ebriosity[obs3]; insobriety; intoxication.
{{caused_by}} {[with_object(alcoholic beverage, @P2.3.1.3.2.10)]} drinking.
{{has_subtype(drinking)}} intemperance; &c. v.; imbibing, temulency[obs3], bibacity[obs3], wine bibbing; comtation[obs3], potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender* [U.S.]
{{has_high_intensity}} oinomania[obs3], dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcoholism; mania a potu[Fr].
drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber[obs3], wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker*, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal[obs3], Bacchante[obs3]; devotee to Bacchus[obs3]; bum* [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.
V. get drunk, be drunk &c. adj.; see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse[Fr], guzzle, swill*, soak*, sot, bum* [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush*, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus[obs3]; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill*, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.
liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off &c. (drink up) 2198; go to the alehouse, go to the public house.
make one drunk &c. adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle[obs3], get into one's head.
Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious[obs3], inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication &c.n.; temulent[obs3], temulentive[obs3]; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou[obs3], fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant[obs3], glorious; potulent[obs1]; squiffy*[obs3]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed*, tight, primed, corned, raddled[obs3], sewed up*, lushy*[obs3], nappy[obs3], muddled, muzzy[obs3], obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous[obs3], dead drunk.
[slightly drunk] woozy[1], buzzed, flush, flushed.
inter pocula[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], pucelage[obs3], virginity.
vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.
Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque[Lat]; simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
virgin, unsullied; cherry [coll.].
Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]; "to the pure all things are pure" [Shelley].
#961. Impurity.-- N. impurity; uncleanness &c. (filth) 653; immodesty; grossness &c. adj.; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity[obs3]; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry[obs3], double entente, equivoque[Fr].
{[in_frame(sexuality,R374a,@P2.3.2.3.1.4): concupiscence, lust, pruriency, lechery, lewdness, lasciviousness]}.
incontinence, intrigue, faux pas[Fr]; amour, amourette[obs3]; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish[obs3], libertinage[obs3], fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation.
seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest.
prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration[obs3], whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom[obs3], adultery, advoutry[obs3], crim[abbr]. con.; free love.
seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio[obs3], stew, bawdyhouse[obs3], cat house, lupanar[obs3], house of ill fame, bordel[obs3], bordello.
{{trait_of: libertines, R962}}.
{{similar_to: intemperance, R954}}.
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 [French], coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.
concupiscent, prurient, lickerish[obs3], 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[obs3], 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.
M9.4 Legal Institutions R963 to R975
<-- (government, law)
963. Legality 964. Illegality
965. Jurisprudence
966. Tribunal
Note: 967. Judge to P2.3.2.3.2.5.27
and 968. Lawyer to person P2.3.2.3.2.5.26
969. Lawsuit
970. Acquittal 971. Condemnation
973. Reward 972. Punishment
974. Penalty
975. Scourge
-->
#963. Legality. -- N. legality; legitimacy, legitimateness.
legislature; law, code, corpus juris[Lat], constitution, pandect[obs3], charter, enactment, statute, rule; canon &c. (precept) 697; ordinance, institution, regulation; bylaw, byelaw; decree &c. (order) 741; ordonnance[obs3]; 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[obs3]; legislation, codification.
equity, common law; lex[Lat], lex nonscripta[Lat][obs3]; 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.
[ref: institution to decide questions of law = court, tribunal &c. 966].
[ref: person who presides at a court or tribunal = judge &c. 967].
[ref: 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[obs3], statutory; legislatorial, legislative; regulatory, regulated.
Adv. legally &c. adj.; in the eye of the law; de jure[Lat].
Phr. ignorantia legis neminem excusat[Latin: 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[obs3][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.
Adj. illegal[contrary to law], unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, prohibited &c. 761; illicit, contraband; actionable.
unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial[obs3], extrajudicial.
lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical[obs3]; 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[obs3], constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz [sarcastic]; constabulary, bumbledom[obs3], gendarmerie[Fr].
officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop [coll.], police constable, police sergeant; sbirro[obs3], alguazil[obs3], gendarme, kavass[obs3], lictor[obs3], mace bearer, huissier[Fr], bedel[obs3]; tithingman[obs3].
press gang; exciseman[obs3], gauger, gager[obs3], customhouse officer, douanier[Fr].
coroner, edile[obs3], aedile[obs3], portreeve[obs3], paritor[obs1]; posse comitatus[Lat].
bureau, cutcherry[obs3], department, secretariat.
[extension of jurisdiction] long arm of the law, extradition.
V. judge, sit in judgment; extradite.
Adj.
executive, administrative, municipal; inquisitorial, causidical[obs3]; judicatory[obs3], judiciary, judicial; juridical.
Adv. coram judice[Lat].
#966. Tribunal. -- N. tribunal, court, board, bench, judicatory[obs3]; court of justice, court of law, court of arbitration, administrative court; inquisition; guild.
justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack[obs3]; 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[obs3], burghmote[obs3]; barmote[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3], divan; Areopagus[obs3]; Irota.
Adj. judicial &c. 965; appellate.
Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht[Ger].
<-- R967 Judge to person P2.3.2.3.2.5.27 -->
<-- lawyer 968 to person P2.3.2.3.2.5.26 -->
#969. Lawsuit. -- N. lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in law; class action; dispute &c. 713.
citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment; accusation &c. 938; presentment, true bill, indictment.
apprehension, arrest; committal; imprisonment &c. (restraint) 751.
writ, summons, subpoena, latitat[obs3], 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[obs3], surrejoinder[obs3].
{{performed_by}} 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[obs3], join issue; close the pleadings; set down for hearing.
try, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate &c. 480.
Adj. litigious &c. (quarrelsome) 713; qui tam; coram judice[Lat], sub judice[Lat].
Adv. pendente lite[Lat].
Phr. adhuc sub judice lis est[Lat]; accedas ad curiam[Lat]; transeat in exemplum[Lat].
#970. Acquittal. -- N. acquittal, acquitment[obs3]; clearance, exculpation; acquittance, clearance, exoneration; discharge &c. (release) 750; quietus, absolution, compurgation[obs3], reprieve, respite; pardon &c. (forgiveness) 918.
[Exemption from punishment] immunity; diplomatic immunity; immunity; plea bargain, deal with the prosecutor.
[in civil suits] no cause for action; no damages.
V. acquit, exculpate, exonerate, clear; absolve, whitewash, assoil[obs3]; discharge, release; liberate &c. 750.
reprieve, respite; pardon &c. (forgive) 918; let off, let off scot-free.
drop the charges.
plea bargain, strike a deal.
[in civil suits][transitive] no-cause; get no-caused[intransitive].
Adj. acquitted &c. v.; uncondemned, unpunished, unchastised.
not guilty; not proven.
not liable.
Phr. nemo bis punitur pro codem delicto[Lat][obs3].
#971. Condemnation. -- N. condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty, sentence; proscription, damnation; death warrant.
attainder, attainture[obs3], attaintment[obs3].
V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit[obs3].
disapprove &c. 932; accuse &c. 938.
stand condemned.
Adj. condemnatory, damnatory[obs3]; guilty, condemned &c.v.; nonsuited &c. (failure) 732[obs3]; self-convicted.
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur[Lat]; "unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved" [P.L.].
#972. Punishment. -- N. punishment,punition[obs3]; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation.
discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty &c. 974; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital &c. (reward) 973; penology; retributive justice.
lash, scaffold &c. (instrument of punishment) 975; imprisonment &c. (restraint) 751; transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys &c. 975; beating &c.v.; flagellation, fustigation[obs3], gantlet, strappado[obs3], estrapade[obs3], bastinado, argumentum baculinum[Lat][obs3], stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow &c. (impulse) 276; stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade[obs3].
capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging &c.v.; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines[obs3]; decapitation, decollation[obs3]; garrotte, garrotto[It]; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe[Fr]; noyade[obs3]; happy dispatch.
[suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [Japanese]; drinking the hemlock.
V. punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste*.
visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.
strike &c. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge[obs3], buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund[obs3], cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate[obs3], pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.
tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate[obs3]; masthead, keelhaul.
execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale[obs3], impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.
torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.
banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench[obs3]; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.
suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.
be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c., come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [coll.], ride the lightning [coll.]; face the firing squad.
Adj. punishing &c. v.; penal; punitory[obs3], punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished &c.v.
Int. a la lanterne![Fr].
Phr. culpan paena premit comes [Lat][Horace]; "eating the bitter bread of banishment" [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Lat][Seneca]; sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus [Lat][Tibullus]; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat][Terence].
#973. Reward. -- N. reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon[obs3], reguerdon[obs1]; price.
[payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.
salvage, perquisite; vail &c. (donation) 784[obs3].
douceur[Fr], bribe; hush money, smart money[obs2]; blackmail, extortion; carcelage[obs1]; solatium[obs3].
allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta[obs3], shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi[obs3], dustoori[obs3]; mileage.
crown &c. (decoration of honor) 877.
V. reward, recompense, repay, requite; remunerate, munerate[obs3]; compensate; fee; pay one's footing &c. (pay) 807; make amends, indemnify, atone; satisfy, acknowledge.
get for one's pains, reap the fruits of.
tip.
Adj. remunerative, remuneratory; munerary[obs3], compensatory, retributive, reparatory[obs3]; rewarding; satisfactory.
Phr. fideli certa merces[Lat]; honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero]; tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].
#974. Penalty. -- N. penalty; retribution &c. (punishment) 972; pain, pains and penalties; weregild[obs3], wergild; peine forte et dure[Fr]; penance &c. (atonement) 952; the devil to pay.
fine, mulct, amercement; forfeit, forfeiture; escheat[Law], damages, deodand[obs3], sequestration, confiscation, premunire[Lat]; doomage [obs3][U.S.].
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