Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
1. Acts of Volition
654 words | Chapter 112
#600. Will.—N. will, volition, conation[obs3], velleity; liberum
arbitrium[Lat]; will and pleasure, free will; freedom &c. 748;
discretion; option &c. (choice) 609; voluntariness[obs3]; spontaneity,
spontaneousness; originality. pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of
mind &c. (inclination) 602; intention &c. 620; predetermination &c.
611; selfcontrol &c. determination &c. (resolution) 604; force of will.
V. will, list; see fit, think fit; determine &c. (resolve) 604; enjoin;
settle &c. (choose) 609; volunteer. have a will of one's own; do what
one chooses &c. (freedom) 748; have it all one's own way; have one's
will, have one's own way. use one's discretion, exercise one's
discretion; take upon oneself, take one's own course, take the law into
one's own hands; do of one's own accord, do upon one's own authority;
originate &c. (cause) 153. Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free
&c. 748; optional; discretional, discretionary; volitient[obs3],
volitive[obs3]. minded &c. (willing) 602; prepense &c. (predetermined)
611[obs3]; intended &c. 620; autocratic; unbidden &c. (bid &c. 741);
spontaneous; original &c. (casual) 153; unconstrained. Adv. voluntarily
&c. adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte[Fr], a discretion; al
piacere[It]; ad libitum, ad arbitrium[Lat]; as one thinks proper, as it
seems good to; a beneplacito[It]. of one's won accord, of one's own
free will; proprio motu[Lat], suo motu[Lat], ex meromotu[Lat]; out of
one's own head; by choice &c. 609; purposely &c. (intentionally) 620;
deliberately &c. 611. Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas[Lat]; sic volo sic
jubeo[Lat]; a vostro beneplacito[It]; beneficium accipere libertatem
est vendere[Lat]; Deus vult[Lat]; was man nicht kann meiden muss man
willig leiden[Ger].
#601. Necessity.—N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse;
inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural
tendency; natural impulse, predetermination. necessity, necessitation;
obligation; compulsion &c. 744; subjection &c. 749; stern necessity,
hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious necessity, inexorable
necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate; what must be.
destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election,
predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism;
inevitableness &c. adj.; spell &c. 993. star, stars; planet, planets;
astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate;
God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's
choice. last shift, last resort; dernier ressort[Fr]; pis aller &c.
(substitute) 147[Fr]; necessaries &c. (requirement) 630.
necessarian[obs3], necessitarian[obs3]; fatalist; automaton. V. lie
under a necessity; befated[obs3], be doomed, be destined &c. in for,
under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's
fate &c. n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be
unable to help. destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain;
cast a spell &c. 992; necessitate; compel &c. 744. Adj. necessary,
needful &c (requisite) 630. fated; destined &c. v.; elect; spellbound,
compulsory &c. (compel) 744; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable,
irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless[obs3], resistless.
involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious,
unwitting, unthinking; unintentional &c. (undesigned) 621; impulsive
&c. 612. Adv. necessarily &c. adv.; of necessity, of course; ex
necessitate rei[Lat]; needs must; perforce &c. 744; nolens volens[Lat];
will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre[Fr], willing or unwilling,
coute que coute[Fr]. faute de mieux[Fr]; by stress of; if need be.
Phr. it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping it;
it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its
way; the die is cast; jacta est alea[obs3][Lat]; che sara sara[French];
"it is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata
obstant[Latin]; diis aliter visum[obs3][Latin]; actum me invito
factus[Latin], non est meus actus[Latin]; aujord'hui roi demain
rien[French]; quisque suos patimur manes [Latin][Vergil];"The moving
finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety and wit can
bring it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word
of it."[Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam].
#602. Willingness.—N. willingness, voluntariness &c. adj[obs3].;
willing mind, heart. disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame
of mind, humor, mood, vein; bent &c. (turn of mind) 820; penchant &c.
(desire) 865; aptitude &c. 698. docility, docibleness[obs3];
persuasibleness[obs3], persuasibility[obs3]; pliability &c. (softness)
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