2. Time with reference to a particular Period.

(123) NEWNESS, novelty, recentness, recency, freshness, greenness, immaturity, rawness.

Innovation, renovation. Adj. New, novel, recent, fresh, green, evergreen, raw, immature, untrodden, late, modern, neoteric, new-fangled, vernal, renovated.

Phr. Fresh as a rose; fresh as a daisy; fresh as paint; bran new; spick and span new.

Adv. Newly, recently, &c., afresh,

anew.

(124) OLDNESS, age, antiquity, primitiveness, maturity, decline, decay, seniority, first-born, eldest, eldership, primogeniture.

Adj. Old, ancient, antique, afterage, antiquated, out of date, of long standing, time-honoured, primitive, diluvian, antediluvian, primeval, primordial, primordinate, primigenous, prime, preadamite.

Immemorial, inveterate, rooted.
Mediæval.

Senior, elder, eldest, oldest, firstborn.

Obsolete, stale, time-worn, faded,

decayed, effete, declining, &c., crumbling, decrepit (128).
Phr. Nothing new under the sun; old as the hills; old as Methu-
selah; old as Adam; nihil sub sole novi.

(125) MORNING, morn, forenoon, prime, dawn, daybreak, peep of day, break of day, aurora, first blush of the morning, prime of the morning, twilight, crepuscule, sunrise, cock

crow.

Noon, noontide, meridian, noonday, prime, spring.

Adj. Matutinal, vernal.

(127) YOUTH, infancy, babyhood, juvenility, childhood, boyism, youthhood, juniority, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.

Cradle, nursery, leading strings, puberty.

Phr. The prime or flower of life. Adj. Young, youthful, juvenile, sappy, puisné, beardless, under age, in one's teens.

(126) EVENING, eve, e'en, decline of day, fall of day, eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour, sunset, afternoon, going down of the sun.

Midnight.

Phr. The dead of night, the witching time of night.

Autumn, the fall.
Adj. Nocturnal, autumnal.

(128) AGE, old age, senility, senescence, oldness, years, anility, grey hairs, climacteric, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, crow's feet, superannuation, dotage, seniority,green old age, eldership, elders.

Phr. The vale of years, the decline of life; "the sere and yellow leaf."

Adj. Aged, old, elderly, senile, matronly, anile, in years, advanced in life, or in years, stricken in years, ripe, mellow, grey, grey-headed, hoary, hoar, venerable, time-worn, declining, antiquated, passé, rusty, effete, decrepit, superannuated. Phr. Having one foot in the grave. Patriarchal, ancestral, primitive,

diluvian.

Older, elder, senior, turned of.

Eldest, oldest, first-born, firstling.

preadamite, antediluvian,

chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codling, fœtus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten.

Girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, maid, maiden, virgin.

Adj. Infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, baby, babyish, unfledged, new fledged, kittenish, callow.

Phr. In leading strings; at the breast, in arms, in one's teens.

(131) ADOLESCENCE, majority, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity. Phr. Years of discretion; toga virilis; man's estate; the flower of age; the prime of life; the meridian of life.

A man, adult (373), a woman, matron (374).

Adj. Adolescent, of age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, middleaged, manly, virile, adult. Womanly, matronly.

3. Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.

timeliness, (133) LATENESS, tardiness, slowness, delay, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, postponement, dilation, adjournment, prorogation, the Fabian policy, La Médicine expec

time; in pudding time; at sunrise; with the lark.

Beforehand, prematurely, before one's time, in anticipation.

Suddenly, abruptly, on the point of, at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment.

(134) OCCASION,

opportunity,

Adv. Late, after time, too late, sine die.

At length, at last, backward, at

sunset.

Slowly, leisurely, deliberately. Phr. Nonum prematur in annum; a day after the fair; at the eleventh hour.

contretemps.

(135) INTEMPESTIVITY, unsuitable opening, room, suitable or proper time, improper time, unseasonabletime or season, high time, the nickness, inopportuneness, evil hour, of time, opportuneness, tempestivity, seasonableness, crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture, golden opportunity, mollia tempora, well timed opportunity.

Phr. A stitch in time.

Spare time, leisure, holiday (685), spare moments, hours, &c., time on one's hands, the enemy.

V. To take the opportunity, to temporize, to time well.

To use, make use of, employ, profit by, avail oneself of, lay hold of, embrace, catch, seize, snatch, clutch, pounce upon, grasp, &c., the opportunity (677).

To give, offer, present, afford, &c., the opportunity.

To spend, or consume time. Phr. To turn the occasion to account; to strike the iron while it is hot; to make hay while the sun shines; carpe diem; occasionem

cognosce.

V. To be ill-timed, &c., to mistime, intrude.

To lose, omit, let slip, let go, neglect, pretermit, allow, or suffer the opportunity or occasion to pass, slip, go by, escape, lapse, slip through the fingers, lose time (683), to fritter away time.

Adj. Ill-timed, untimely, intrusive, mistimed, unseasonable, out of season, unpunctual, inopportune, timeless, intrusive, too late (133), mal à propos, unlucky, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavour

able.

Adv. Inopportunely, &c.

Phr. As ill luck would have it; in evil hour; after meat mustard; after death the physician.

Adj. Opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable, happy, lucky, fortunate, favourable, propitious, auspicious, critical.

Adv. Opportunely, &c., on the spot, in proper or due time or season, high time; all in good time.

Phr. In the nick of time, in pudding time; in the fulness of time; between the cup and the lip; on the spur of the moment or occasion (612).

By the way, by the by, en passant, à propos; pro re natâ ; pro hác vice.

Phr. Non semper erit æstas.

3o. RECURRENT TIME.

(136) FREQUENCY, oftness, recurrence, repetition (104), reiteration, iteration, run, reappearance, renewal, ritornello, burden.

(137) INFREQUENCY, rareness, variety, seldomness.

V. To be rare, &c.

Adj. Infrequent, rare, unfrequent.

V. To recur, revert, return, repeat, reiterate, reappear, renew, reword.

Adj. Frequent, many times, not rare, repeated, reiterated, thickcoming, recurring, recurrent, &c.

Adv. Seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly ever; not often, unfrequently, unoften, scarcely ever, hardly ever. Once, once for all, once in a way, pro hâc vice.

Adv. Often, oft, oft-times, frequently, oftentimes, repeatedly, not unfrequently, many times, several times.

Phr. A number of times, many a time, full many a time, many a time

and oft.

Again, anew, afresh, de novo, ditto, over again, da capo, again and again, over and over; ever and anon; many times over; time after time; repeatedly (104).

Perpetually, continually, constantly.

Sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to toties quoties.

time, there are times when, &c.,

Most often, for the most part.

(138) REGULARITY of recurrence, punctuality.

PERIODICITY, intermittence, beat, alternation, alternity, pulsation, alternateness, alternativeness, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn.

Anniversary, centenary. Regularity of return, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine.

V. To recur in regular order or succession, to come round, return,

revolve, alternate, come in its turn, beat, pulsate, intermit.

Adj. Periodic, periodical, recurrent, cyclical, revolving, intermittent, remittent, alternate, alternating, diurnal, quotidian, annual, &c., regular, steady, punctual.

Phr. Regular as clockwork.

Adv. Periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed periods, punctually; de die in diem; from day to day.

By turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, off and on, ride and tie.

SECTION VII. CHANGE.

1o. SIMPLE CHANGE.

(140) Difference at different times.

(140 a) Absence of change, see CHANGE, alteration, mutation, per- (265). mutation, variation, modification, V. To let alone, to let be. modulation, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, inversion, reversion, reversal, eversion, subversion, bouleversement, organic change, revolution (146), transit, transition (144). Transformation, transmutation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmigration, transubstantiation, transanimation, metempsychosis,

avatar.

Vicissitude, flux, unrest (149).

V. To change, alter, vary, modify, modulate, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, turn topsy-turvy, invert, reverse, intervert, subvert, evert, turn inside out.

Form, fashion, mould, model, vamp, warp, work a change, superinduce, disturb (61), innovate, reform, remodel, refound, new model, revolutionize. Transform, transume, transmute, transfigure, transmogrify, metamorhose, to ring the changes, pass to, leap to, transfer (270).

Phr. Nous avons changé tout cela; to turn over a new leaf.
Adj. Changed, altered, new fangled, warped, &c.
Adv. Mutatis mutandis; quantum mutatus!

(141) Change from action to rest. CESSATION, discontinuance, desistance, desinence, quiescence (265).

Intermission, remission, suspension, interruption, suspense, stop, stoppage, pause, rest, respite, truce, drop, interregnum, abeyance.

Comma, colon, semicolon, &c. V. To discontinue, cease, desist, stay, break off, leave off, hold, stop, pause, rest, drop, give over, relinquish (624), surcease.

Phr. To stay one's hand; to shut up shop.

To come to a stand or stand-still, suspend, cut short, cast off, go out, be at an end; intromit, interrupt, interpel, intermit, remit; put an end or stop to.

To pass away, go off, pass off, die away, wear away, wear off.

Phr. To pass away like a shadow or cloud.

Int. Hold! stop! enough! avast! have done!

(142) PERMANENCE, persistence, endurance, status quo; maintenance, preservation, conservation, rest, sleep, &c., settledness (265), establishment, fixture.

Phr. The law of the Medes and Persians.

V. To remain, stay, stop, tarry, hold, last, endure, bide, abide, maintain, keep, hold on, stand, subsist, live, stand still, outlive, survive.

Phr. To keep one's footing.

Adj. Persisting, &c., unchanged, unmodified, unrenewed, unaltered, fixed, settled, unvaried, intact, persistent, stagnant, rooted, monotonous, unreserved, conservative, undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed, unfailing.

Adv. In statu quo, for good, finally, at a stand, at a stand still, uti possidetis.

(143) CONTINUANCE in action, continuation, perseverance, repetition (104), persistence, run.

V. To continue, persist, go on, keep on, abide, keep, pursue, hold on, run on, carry on, keep up, uphold, hold up, persevere, keep it up, maintain, maintain one's ground, harp upon, repeat (104).

Phr. Stare super antiquas vias; ne réveillez pas le chat qui dort; quieta non movere.

Adj. Continuing, &c. uninterrupted, inconvertible, unintermitting, unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried, unshifting.

(144) Gradual change to something different.

CONVERSION, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse.

Passage, transit, transition, transmigration, flux, shifting, sliding, running into, &c.; phase, conjugation; convertibility.

Laboratory, alembic, &c. (691).

V. To be converted into; to become, to wax, come to, turn to, assume the form of, pass into, slide into, glide into, lapse, shift, run into, fall into,