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.
     abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay. 
     Adj. existing &c. v.; existent, under the sun; in existence &c. n.;
extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed.
     real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c. 494; substantial,
substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.
     well-founded, well-grounded; unideal[obs3], unimagined; not potential
&c. 2; authentic. 
     Adv. actually &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed;
de facto, ipso facto. 
     Phr. ens rationis[Lat]; ergo sum cogito:  “thinkest thou existence doth
depend on time?” [Lat][Byron].

     #2.  Inexistence.—­ N. inexistence[obs3]; nonexistence, nonsubsistence;
nonentity, nil; negativeness &c. adj.; nullity; nihility[obs3], nihilism; tabula rasa[Lat], blank; abeyance; absence &c. 187; no such thing &c. 4; nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion.
     annihilation; extinction &c. (destruction) 162; extinguishment,
extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration. 
     V. not exist &c. 1; have no existence &c. 1; be null and void; cease
to exist &c. 1; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct &c. adj.; die out; disappear &c. 449; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die &c. 360.
     annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c. 756; destroy &c. 162;
take away; remove &c. (displace) 185; obliterate, extirpate. 
     Adj. inexistent[obs3], nonexistent &c. 1; negative, blank; missing,
omitted; absent &c. 187; insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary.
     unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubstantial
&c. 4; vain.
     unborn, uncreated[obs3], unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade.
     perished, annihilated, &c. v.; extinct, exhausted, gone, lost,
vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct &c. (dead) 360.
     fabulous, ideal &c. (imaginary) 515, supposititious &c. 514. 
     Adv. negatively, virtually &c. adj. 
     Phr. non ens[Lat].

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% 2.  Being, in the concrete %

     #3.  Substantiality. —­ N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being,
thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter &c. 316; corporeity[obs3], element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part.
     [Totality of existences], world &c. 318; plenum. 
     Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible
&c. (material) 316; corporeal. 
     Adv. substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially.

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