Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
3. RECURRENT TIME
573 words | Chapter 32
#136. Frequency.窶年. frequency, oftness[obs3], oftenness[obs3],
commonness; repetition &c. 104; normality &c. 80; example (conformity)
82; routine, custom (habit) 613. regularity, uniformity, constancy,
clock-work precision; punctuality &c. (exactness) 494; even tenor;
system; routine &c. (custom) 613; formula; rule &c. (form, regulation)
697; keynote, standard, model; precedent &c. (prototype) 22; conformity
&c. 82. V. recur &c. 104; do nothing but; keep, keep on. Adj. frequent,
many times, not rare, thickcoming[obs3], incessant, perpetual,
continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated &c. 104;
customary &c. 613 (habit) 613; regular (normal) 80; according to rule
&c. (conformable) 82. common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.
old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial. Adv. often, oft; ofttimes[obs3],
oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly &c. 104; unseldom[obs3], not
unfrequently[obs3]; in quick succession, in rapid succession; many a
time and oft; daily, hourly &c.; every day, every hour, every moment
&c. perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing,
at all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after
day, morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) 613. most
often; commonly &c. (habitually) 613. sometimes, occasionally, at
times, now and then, from time to time, there being times when, toties
quoties[Lat][obs3], often enough, when the mood strikes, again and
again.
#137. Infrequency.窶年. infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness &c.
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103; seldomness[obs3]; uncommonness.
V. be rare &c. adj.
Adj. unfrequent[obs3], infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond;
few
&c. 103; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not
occurred
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous
experience; not since Adam[obs3].
scarce as hen's teeth; one in a million; few and far between.
Adv. seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much,
infrequently, unfrequently[obs3], unoften[obs3]; scarcely, scarcely
ever,
hardly ever; once in a blue moon.
once; once in a blue moon; once in a million years; once for all,
once
in a way; pro hac vice[Lat].
Phr. ein mal kein mal[German].
#138. Regularity of recurrence. Periodicity.窶年. periodicity,
intermittence; beat; oscillation &c. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm;
alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity[obs3]. bout,
round, revolution, rotation, turn, say. anniversary, jubilee,
centenary. catamenia[obs3]; courses, menses, menstrual flux.
[Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days
of the week; Sunday, Monday &c.; months of the year; January &c.;
feast, fast &c.; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day &c.
Allhallows[obs3], Allhallowmas[obs3], All Saints' Day; All Souls', All
Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile[obs3],
Candlemas[obs3], Dewali, groundhog day [U.S.], Halloween,
Hallowmas[obs3], Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram,
woodchuck day [U.S.], St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide.
punctuality, regularity, steadiness. V. recur in regular order, recur
in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn;
come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit. Adj.
periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical;
recurring &c. v.; intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other.
hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal|,
hebdomadary|; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial|; monthly,
menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial, &c.; centennial,
secular; paschal, lenten, &c. regular, steady, punctual, regular as
clockwork. Adv. periodically &c. adj.; at regular intervals, at stated
times; at fixed established, at established periods; punctually &c.
adj. de die in diem[Lat]; from day to day, day by day. by turns; in
turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and
tie, round and round.
#139. Irregularity of recurrence.窶年. irregularity, uncertainty,
unpunctuality; fitfulness &c. adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus|. Adj.
irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful,
flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical[obs3],
unmethodical, variable. Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits and starts
&c. (discontinuously) 70.
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