Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #57.  Extraneousness. —­ N. extraneousness &c. adj.; extrinsicality &c.
6[obs3]; exteriority &c. 220[obs3]; alienage[obs3], alienism; foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo[Lat], newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander[obs3]; outsider; Dago*, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner [U.S.], Dutchman, tenderfoot. 
     Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.
     excluded &c. 55; inadmissible; exceptional. 
     Adv. in foreign parts, in foreign lands; abroad, beyond seas; over sea
on one’s travels.

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               Section ivOrder

1.  Order %

     #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. (see confuse &c. 61); arranged &c. 60. 
     Adv. in order; methodically &c. adj.; in -turn, — its turn; step by
step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -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].

<—­ here we should break up 59 into disorder (randomness), and complexity.  These are two different concepts.  Note that simplicity, (entry 849) refers to affections or appearance, not internal complexity. 
     We also need a corresponding entry for conceptual or organizational
simplicity. —­>

     #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[obs3]; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.  S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch[obs3], hotch-pot[obs3]; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum[Lat], medley; mere mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra[Lat], rudis indigestaque moles

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