Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
931 words | Chapter 37
#157. Power.—N. power; potency, potentiality; jiva[obs3]; puissance,
might, force, energy &c. 171; dint; right hand, right arm;
ascendency[obs3], sway, control; prepotency, prepollence|;
almightiness, omnipotence; authority &c. 737; strength &c. 159.
ability; ableness &c. adj[obs3].; competency; efficacy; efficiency,
productivity, expertise (skill) 698; validity, cogency;
enablement[obs3]; vantage ground; influence &c. 175. pressure;
conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism,
voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear
power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power,
hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal
power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae[Lat], vis mortua[Lat], vis
viva [Latin]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction,
dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire. capability,
capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent [obs3][Latin];
faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift, property,
qualification, susceptibility. V. be powerful &c. adj.; gain power &c.
n. belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can,
be able. give power, confer power, exercise power &c. n.; empower,
enable, invest; indue[obs3], endue; endow, arm; strengthen &c. 159;
compel &c. 744. Adj. powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able;
equal to, up to; cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective,
effectual, efficacious, adequate, competent; multipotent[obs3],
plenipotent[obs3], omnipotent; almighty. forcible &c. adj. (energetic)
171; influential &c. 175; productive &c. 168. Adv. powerfully &c. adj.;
by virtue of, by dint of. Phr. a toute force[Fr]; δός μοι ποῦ στῶ καὶ
κινῶ τὴν γῆν[Grk]; eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis [Latin];
fortis cadere cedere non potest [Latin].
#158. Impotence.—N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement,
impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude,
ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity[obs3]; indocility[obs3];
invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness. telum
imbelle[Lat], brutum fulmen[Lat], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the
pan, vox et proeterea nihil[Lat], dead letter, bit of waste paper,
dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun. inefficacy &c. (inutility) 645[obs3];
failure &c. 732. helplessness &c. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy,
apoplexy, syncope, sideration|, deliquium|[Lat], collapse, exhaustion,
softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med],
orchotomy[Med]. cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff,
pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle; eunuch. V. be impotent &c. adj.; not have
a leg to stand on. vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [French], vouloir
prendre la lune avec les dents [French]. collapse, faint, swoon, fall
into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke,
end in smoke &c. (fail) 732. render powerless &c. adj.; deprive of
power; disable, disenable[obs3]; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify,
unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate,
paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple[obs3], maim, lame, hamstring, draw
the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten[obs3],
silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat[Fr], spike the
guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke
in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out
of gear. unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter,
neuter, sterilize, fix. shatter, exhaust, weaken &c. 160. Adj.
powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient,
ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified;
unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled &c. v.; armless[obs3].
harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu[Lat],
unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable. paralytic,
paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless[obs3],
marrowless[obs3], pithless[obs3], lustless[obs3]; emasculate,
disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged;
water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done
up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled &c. (in
difficulty) 704; helpless, unfriended[obs3], fatherless; without a leg
to stand on, hors de combat[Fr], laid on the shelf. null and void,
nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual &c. (failing) 732;
inadequate &c. 640; inefficacious &c. (useless) 645. Phr. der kranke
Mann[Ger]; "desirous still but impotent to rise" [Shenstone]; the
spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
#159. [Degree of power.] Strength.—N. strength; power &c. 157;
energy &c. 171; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force;
spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity. stoutness &c. adj.;
lustihood[obs3], stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew, thews and sinews,
physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality. athletics,
athleticism[obs3]; gymnastics, feats of strength. adamant, steel, iron,
oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone. athlete, gymnast, acrobat;
superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antæus[obs3], Samson, Cyclops, Goliath;
tower of strength; giant refreshed. strengthening &c. v.; invigoration,
refreshment, refocillation[obs3]. [Science of forces] dynamics,
statics. V. be strong &c. adj., be stronger; overmatch. render strong
&c. adj.; give strength &c. n.; strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve,
fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up,
set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on
one's legs; vivify; refresh &c. 689; refect[obs3]; reinforce, reenforce
&c. (restore) 660. Adj. strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard,
adamantine, stout, robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant,
valid. resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against,
impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable,
unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering,
overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign. able-bodied;
athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean[obs3]; muscular, brawny,
wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping, stalwart,
gigantic. manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile.
unweakened[obs3], unallayed, unwithered[obs3], unshaken, unworn,
unexhausted[obs3]; in full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of
power. stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a
lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a
roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse;
like a giant refreshed. Adv. strongly &c. adj.; by force &c. n.; by
main force &c. (by compulsion) 744. Phr. "our withers are unwrung"
[Hamlet]. Blut und Eisen[Ger]; coelitus mihi vires[Lat]; du fort au
diable[Fr]; en habiles gens[Lat]; ex vi termini; flecti non
frangi[Lat]; "he that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and
sharpens our skill" [Burke]; "inflexible in faith invincible in arms"
[Beattie].
#160. Weakness.—N. weakness &c. adj.; debility, atony[obs3],
relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence &c. 158; infirmity;
effeminacy, feminality[obs3]; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity &c.
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