Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
918. Adj. forgotten &c. v.; unremembered, past recollection, bygone,
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out of mind; buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten;
gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection. forgetful,
oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible &c. 823 to the past; heedless.
Phr. non mi ricordo[It]; the memory failing, the memory deserting one,
being at (or in) fault.
_2. To the Future_
#507. Expectation.—N. expectation, expectance, expectancy;
anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight &c. 510. contemplation,
prospection[obs3], lookout; prospect, perspective, horizon, vista;
destiny &c. 152. suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity &c. 455;
anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless
expectation, sanguine expectation; torment of Tantalus. hope &c. 858;
trust &c. (belief) 484; auspices &c. (prediction) 511; assurance,
confidence, presumption, reliance. V. expect; look for, look out for,
look forward to; hope for; anticipate; have in prospect, have in
contemplation; keep in view; contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder
&c. 870 at, not wonder if. wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch
for, bargain for; keep a good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for;
await; stand at "attention," abide, bide one's time, watch. foresee &c.
510; prepare for &c. 673; forestall &c. (be early) 132; count upon &c.
(believe in) 484; think likely &c. (probability) 472. lead one to
expect &c. (predict) 511; have in store for &c. (destiny) 152. prick up
one's ears, hold one's breath. Adj. expectant; expecting &c. v.; in
expectation &c. n.; on the watch &c. (vigilant) 459; open-eyed,
open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on
tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets[obs3];
ready; curious &c. 455; looking forward to. expected &c. v.; long
expected, foreseen; in prospect &c. n.; prospective; in one's eye, in
one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just
around the corner, around the corner; impending &c. (destiny) 152. Adv.
on the watch &c. adj.; with breathless expectation &c. n.; with bated
breath, with rapt anticipation; arrectis auribus[Lat]. Phr. we shall
see; nous verrons[Fr]; "expectation whirls me round" [Troilus and
Cressida]; the light at the end of the tunnel.
#508. Inexpectation.—N. inexpectation[obs3], non-expectation; false
expectation &c. (disappointment) 509; miscalculation &c. 481. surprise,
sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start; bolt out of the blue;
wonder &c. 870; eye opener. unpleasant surprise, pleasant surprise. V.
not expect &c. 507; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate &c. 481;
not bargain for; come upon, fall upon. be unexpected &c. adj.; come
unawares &c. adv.; turn up, pop, drop from the clouds; come upon one,
burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon one, steal upon one, creep
upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a thunderclap, thunder
bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch unawares, catch
napping; yach [obs3][S. Africa]. pounce upon, spring a mine upon.
surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away
one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound &c. (strike
with wonder) 870. Adj. nonexpectant[obs3]; surprised &c. v.; unwarned,
unaware; off one's guard; inattentive 458. unexpected, unanticipated,
unpredicted[obs3], unlooked for, unforeseen, unhoped for; dropped from
the clouds; beyond expectation, contrary to expectation, against
expectation, against all expectation; out of one's reckoning; unheard
of &c. (exceptional) 83; startling, surprising; sudden &c.
(instantaneous) 113. unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519.
Adv. abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly; plump, pop, a
l'improviste[Fr], unawares; without notice, without warning, without a
"by your leave"; like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt; in an
unguarded moment; suddenly &c. (instantaneously) 113. Int.
heydey[obs3]! &c. (wonder) 870. Phr. little did one think, little did
one expect; nobody would ever suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody
would ever expect; who would have thought? it beats the Dutch|!.
#509. [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment.—N. disappointment;
blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip;
nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter
disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain
expectation; miscalculation &c. 481; fool's paradise; much cry and
little wool. V. be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast,
stand aghast &c. (wonder) 870; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong
side of one's mouth; find one a false prophet. not realize one's hope,
not realize one's expectation. [cause to be disappointed] disappoint;
frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure) 732; crush one's hope,
dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's
hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt,
bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips,
tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish) 870.
Adj. disappointed &c. v.; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of
one's reckoning. Phr. the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse;
parturiunt montes[Lat]; nascitur ridiculus mus [Lat][Horace]; diis
aliter visum[Lat][obs3], the bubble burst; one's countenance falling.
#510. Foresight.—N. foresight, prospicience[obs3], prevision, long-
sightedness; anticipation; providence &c. (preparation) 673.
forethought, forecast; predeliberation[obs3], presurmise[obs3];
foregone conclusion &c. (prejudgment) 481; prudence &c. (caution) 864.
foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion[obs3],
presentiment; second sight; sagacity &c. (intelligence) 498;
antepast[obs3], prelibation[obs3], prophasis[obs3]. prospect &c.
(expectation) 507; foretaste; prospectus &c. (plan) 626. V. foresee;
look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from afar; look into
the future, pry into the future, peer into the future. see one's way;
see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, see how the wind blows,
test the waters, see how the cat jumps. anticipate; expect &c. 507; be
beforehand &c. (early) 132; predict &c. 511; foreknow, forejudge,
forecast; presurmise[obs3]; have an eye to the future, have an eye to
the main chance; respicere finem[Lat]; keep a sharp lookout &c.
(vigilance) 459; forewarn &c. 668. Adj. foreseeing &c. v.; prescient;
farseeing, farsighted; sagacious &c. (intelligent) 498;
weatherwise[obs3]; provident &c. (prepared) 673; prospective &c. 507.
Adv. against the time when. Phr. cernit omnia Deus vindex[Lat]; mihi
cura futuri[Lat]; run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.
#511. Prediction.—N. prediction, announcement; program, programme
&c. (plan) 626[Brit]; premonition &c. (warning) 668; prognosis,
prophecy, vaticination, mantology[obs3], prognostication,
premonstration|; augury, auguration|; ariolation|, hariolation|;
foreboding, aboding[obs3]; bodement[obs3], abodement[obs3]; omniation|,
omniousness[obs3]; auspices, forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope,
nativity; sooth[obs3], soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing;
divination; necromancy &c. 992. [Divination by the stars]
astrology[obs3], horoscopy[obs3], judicial astrology1[obs3]. [obs3]
adytum[Place of prediction]. prefiguration[obs3], prefigurement;
prototype, type. [person who predicts] oracle &c. 513. V. predict,
prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay,
augurate[obs3], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity;
advise; forewarn &c. 668. presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode;
foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow[obs3]; portend; foreshow[obs3],
foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify[obs3], ominate[obs3],
signify, point to. usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower. hold out
expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid
fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64. [predict by
mathematical or statistical means from past experience] extrapolate,
project. Adj. predicting &cv.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic[obs3],
fatidical[obs3]; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent[obs3], haruspical,
Sibylline; weatherwise[obs3]. ominous, portentous, augurous[obs3],
augurial, augural; auspicial[obs3], auspicious; prescious[obs3],
monitory, extispicious[obs3], premonitory, significant of, pregnant
with, bit with the fate of. Phr. "coming events cast their shadows
before" [Campbell]; dicamus bona verba[Lat]; "there buds the promise of
celestial worth" [Young].
[1] The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination,
have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a
curious illustration of bygone superstitions:—
Divination by oracles, Theomancy[obs3]; by the Bible, Bibliomancy;
by ghosts, Psychomancy[obs3]; by crystal gazing,
Crystallomancy[obs3]; by shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by
appearances in the air, Aeromancy[obs3], Chaomancy[obs3]; by the
stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors, Meteoromancy[obs3]; by
winds, Austromancy[obs3]; by sacrificial appearances, Aruspicy (or
Haruspicy)[obs3], Hieromancy[obs3], Hieroscopy[obs3]; by the
entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy[obs3], Hieromancy[obs3];
by the entrails of a human sacrifice, Anthropomancy[obs3]; by the
entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy[obs3]; by sacrificial fire,
Pyromancy[obs3]; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy[obs3]; by smoke from
the altar, Capnomancy[obs3]; by mice, Myomancy[obs3]; by birds,
Orniscopy[obs3], Ornithomancy[obs3]; by a cock picking up grains,
Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy)[obs3]; by fishes, Ophiomancy[obs3];
by herbs, Botanomancy[obs3]; by water, Hydromancy[obs3]; by
fountains, Pegomancy[obs3]; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of
cakes, Crithomancy[obs3]; by meal, Aleuromancy[obs3],
Alphitomancy[obs3]; by salt, Halomancy[obs3]; by dice,
Cleromancy[obs3]; by arrows, Belomancy[obs3]; by a balanced
hatchet, Axinomancy[obs3]; by a balanced sieve, Coscinomancy[obs3];
by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy[obs3]; by dots made at random on
paper, Geomancy[obs3]; by precious stones, Lithomancy[obs3]; by
pebbles, Pessomancy[obs3]; by pebbles drawn from a heap,
Psephomancy[obs3]; by mirrors, Catoptromancy[obs3]; by writings in
ashes, Tephramancy[obs3]; by dreams, Oneiromancy[obs3]; by the
hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays,
Onychomancy[obs3]; by finger rings, Dactylomancy[obs3]; by numbers,
Arithmancy[obs3]; by drawing lots, Sortilege[obs3]; by passages in
books, Stichomancy[obs3]; by the letters forming the name of the
person, Onomancy[obs3], Nomancy; by the features,
Anthroposcopy[obs3]; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy[obs3]; by
ventriloquism, Gastromancy[obs3]; by walking in a circle,
Gyromancy[obs3]; by dropping melted wax into water,
Ceromancy[obs3]; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and
peculiarities of wine, Œnomancy[obs3].
#512. Omen.—N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice;
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sign &c. (indication) 550; harbinger &c. (precursor) 64; yule candle|!.
bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning
&c.
668.
prefigurement &c. 511.
Adj. ill-boding.
Phr. auspicium melioris aevi[Lat][obs3].
#513. Oracle.—N. oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer,
augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer[obs3], witch, geomancer[obs3],
aruspex[obs3]; aruspice[obs3], haruspice[obs3]; haruspex; astrologer,
star gazer[obs3]; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness[obs3]; Pythia; Pythian
oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra[obs3],
Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer &c. 994; interpreter &c.
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