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#610. Rejection. -- N. rejection

• repudiation

• exclusion

• refusal

• declination

• V. reject

• set aside

• lay aside

• give up

• decline

• exclude

• except

• pluck

• spin

• cast

• repudiate

• scout

• set at naught

• fling to the winds

• fling to the

• dogs

• fling overboard

• fling away

• cast to the winds

• cast to the dogs

• cast overboard

• cast away

• throw to the winds

• throw to the dogs

• throw

• overboard

• throw away

• toss to the winds

• toss to the dogs

• toss overboard

• toss away

• send to the right about

• disclaim

• discard

• (eject)

• (have done with) 678

• Adj. rejected

• reject

• rejectaneous|

• rejectious|

• not chosen

• to be thought of

• out of the question

• Adv. neither

• neither the one nor the other

• no

• Phr. non haec in faedera[Lat]

#611. Predetermination. -- N. predestination

• preordination

• premeditation

• predetermination

• foregone

• conclusion

• resolve

• propendency|;

• intention

• project

• fate

• foredoom

• necessity

• V. predestine

• preordain

• predetermine

• premeditate

• resolve

• concert;

• resolve beforehand

• predesignate

• premeditated

• predesignated

• advised

• studied

• designed

• calculated

• aforethought;

• intended

• foregone

• well-laid

• well-devised

• well-weighed

• maturely considered

• cunning

• Adv. advisedly

• with premeditation

• deliberately

• all things

• considered

• with eyes open

• in cold blood

• intentionally

#612. Impulse. -- N. impulse

• sudden thought

• impromptu

• improvisation

• inspiration

• flash

• spurt

• creature of impulse

• V. flash on the mind

• say what comes uppermost

• improvise

• extemporize

• Adj. extemporaneous

• impulsive

• snap

• improvised

• unpremeditated

• unmeditated;

• improvise

• unprompted

• unguided

• natural

• unguarded

• spontaneous

• (voluntary) 600

• instinctive

• Adv. extempore

• extemporaneously

• offhand

• impromptu

• a

• on the spur of the moment

• on the spur of

• the occasion

#613. Habit. [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence] --

• N. habit

• habitude

• assuetude|

• assuefaction|

• wont

• run

• way

• common state of things

• general state of things

• natural state of

• things

• ordinary state of things

• ordinary course of things

• ordinary run

• of things

• matter of course

• beaten path

• beaten track

• beaten ground

• prescription

• custom

• use

• usage

• immemorial usage

• practice;

• prevalence

• observance

• conventionalism

• conventionality

• mode

• fashion

• vogue

• etiquette

• order of the day

• cry

• conformity

• one's old way

• old school

• veteris vestigia flammae[Lat]

• laudator

• temporis acti[Lat]

• rule

• standing order

• precedent

• routine

• red-tape

• pipe clay

• rut

• groove

• cacoethes[Lat]

• bad habit

• confirmed habit

• inveterate habit

• intrinsic habit

• addiction

• trick

• training

• seasoning

• second nature

• acclimatization

• knack

• V. be wont

• fall into a rut

• fall into a custom

• tread the

• beaten track

• follow the beaten track

• tread the beaten path

• follow the

• beaten

• move in a rut

• run on in a

• groove

• go round like a horse in a mill

• go on in the old jog trot way

• habituate

• inure

• harden

• season

• caseharden

• accustom

• familiarize;

• naturalize

• acclimatize

• keep one's hand in

• train

• get into the way

• get into the knack of

• learn

• cling to

• adhere to

• repeat

• acquire a habit

• contract a habit

• fall into a

• habit

• acquire a trick

• contract a trick

• fall into a trick

• addict oneself

• to

• take to

• get into

• be habitual

• prevail

• come into use

• become a habit

• take

• root

• gain upon one

• grow upon one

• Adj. habitual

• prescriptive

• accustomed

• of

• daily occurrence

• of everyday occurrence

• wonted

• usual

• general

• ordinary

• common

• frequent

• everyday

• household

• garden

• variety

• jog

• trot

• well-trodden

• well-known

• familiar

• vernacular

• trite

• commonplace

• conventional

• regular

• set

• stock

• established

• stereotyped;

• prevailing

• prevalent

• current

• received

• acknowledged

• recognized

• accredited

• of course

• admitted

• understood

• conformable.

• according to use

• according to custom

• according

• to routine

• in vogue

• in fashion

• in

• with it

• fashionable

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• wont

• used to

• given to

• addicted to

• attuned to

• habituated

• in the habit of

• habitue

• at home in

• seasoned

• imbued

• with

• devoted to

• wedded to

• hackneyed

• fixed

• rooted

• deep-rooted

• permanent

• inveterate

• besetting

• naturalized

• ingrained

• Adv. habitually

• always

• as usual

• as is one's wont

• as things go

• as the world goes

• as the

• sparks fly upwards

• more suo

• more solito[Lat]

• ex more

• as a rule

• for the most part

• usually

• generally

• typically

• most often

• most frequently

• abeunt studia in mores[Lat]

• adeo in teneris

• consuescere multum est[Lat]

• consuetudo quasi altera natura [Lat][Cicero];

• hoc erat in more majorum[Lat]

• "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Two

• Gentlemen]

• magna est vis consuetudinis[Lat]

• morent fecerat usus

• [Lat][Ovid]

#614. Desuetude. -- N. desuetude

• obsolescence

• disuse

• want of habit

• want of practice

• newness to;

• new brooms

• infraction of usage

• "a

• custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet]

• V. be -unaccustomed

• leave off a habit

• cast off a habit

• break off a habit

• wean oneself of a habit

• violate a habit

• break through

• a habit

• infringe a habit

• leave off a custom

• cast off a custom

• break off

• a custom

• wean oneself of a custom

• violate a custom

• break through a

• custom

• infringe a custom

• leave off a usage

• cast off a usage

• break off a

• usage

• wean oneself of a usage

• violate a usage

• break through a usage

• infringe a usage

• disuse

• wear off

• Adj. unaccustomed

• unused

• unwonted

• unseasoned

• untrained

• new

• green

• unhackneyed

• unusual

• disused

• 2. Causes of Volition

#615. Motive. -- N. motive

• springs of action

• wellsprings of action

• reason

• ground

• call

• principle

• by end

• by purpose

• mainspring

• primum mobile[Lat]

• keystone

• the why and the wherefore

• pro and con

• reason why

• secret motive

• intention

• inducement

• consideration

• attraction

• loadstone

• magnet

• magnetism

• magnetic force

• allectation|

• allective|

• temptation

• enticement

• allurement

• witchery

• bewitchment

• bewitchery

• charm

• spell

• fascination

• blandishment

• cajolery

• seduction

• seducement;

• honeyed words

• voice of the tempter

• song of the Sirens forbidden fruit

• golden apple

• impressibility

• susceptibility

• softness

• persuasiveness

• attractiveness;

• prompting

• dictate

• instance

• impulse

• impulsion

• incitement

• incitation

• press

• instigation

• provocation

• (excitation of feeling) 8

• inspiration

• persuasion

• suasion;

• encouragement

• advocacy

• exhortation

• advice

• solicitation

• (request)

• lobbyism

• pull*

• incentive

• stimulus

• spur

• fillip

• whip

• goad

• rowel

• provocative

• whet

• dram

• bribe

• lure

• decoy

• decoy duck

• bait

• trail of a red herring

• bribery

• and corruption

• sop

• sop for Cerberus

• prompter

• tempter

• seducer

• instigator

• firebrand

• incendiary

• Siren

• Circe

• agent provocateur

• lobbyist

• V. induce

• move

• draw

• draw on

• bring in its train

• give an impulse

• to

• inspire

• put up to

• prompt

• call up

• attract

• beckon

• stimulate

• spirit up

• inspirit

• rouse

• arouse;

• animate

• incite

• foment

• provoke

• instigate

• set on

• actuate

• act upon

• work upon

• operate upon

• encourage

• pat on the back

• pat on the shoulder

• clap on the back

• clap on the shoulder

• influence

• weigh with

• bias

• sway

• incline

• dispose

• predispose

• turn

• the scale

• inoculate

• lead by the nose

• have influence with

• have influence

• over

• have influence upon

• exercise influence with

• exercise influence

• over

• exercise influence upon

• go round

• come round one

• turn the head

• magnetize

• lobby

• persuade

• prevail with

• prevail upon

• overcome

• carry

• bring round to

• one's senses

• bring to one's senses

• draw over

• win over

• gain over

• come

• over

• talk over

• procure

• enlist

• engage

• invite

• court

• tempt

• seduce

• entice

• allure

• captivate

• fascinate

• bewitch

• carry away

• charm

• conciliate

• wheedle

• coax

• lure;

• inveigle

• tantalize

• cajole

• tamper with

• bribe

• suborn

• grease the palm

• bait with a silver hook

• gild the pill

• make things pleasant

• put a sop into the pan

• throw a sop

• to

• bait the hook

• enforce

• force

• impel

• propel

• whip

• lash

• goad

• spur

• prick

• urge

• egg on

• hound

• hurry on

• drag

• exhort;

• advise

• call upon

• advocate

• set an example

• set the fashion

• keep in countenance

• be persuaded

• yield to temptation

• come round

• concede

• (consent)

• obey a call

• follow advice

• follow the bent,.follow the

• dictates of

• act on principle

• Adj. impulsive

• motive

• suasive

• persuasive

• hortative

• hortatory

• protreptical|

• inviting

• tempting

• suasive

• seductive

• attractive

• fascinating

• (pleasing) 8

• provocative

• induced

• disposed

• persuadable

• spellbound;

• instinct with

• smitten with

• infatuated

• inspired

• by

• Adv. because

• therefore

• from this motive

• from that

• motive

• for this reason

• for that reason

• for

• by reason of

• for the sake

• of

• count of

• out of

• from

• as

• forasmuch as

• for all the world

• on principle

• Phr. fax mentis incendium gloriae[Lat]

• "temptation hath a music for

• all ears" "to beguile many and be beguiled by one" [Willis][Othello]

#615a. Absence of Motive. -- N. absence of motive

• aimlessness;

• caprice

• chance

• V. have no motive

• scruple

• Adj. without rhyme or reason

• aimless

• capricious

• whimsical

• (chance) 621

• Adv. out of mere caprice

#616. Dissuasion. -- N. dissuasion

• expostulation

• remonstrance

• deprecation

• discouragement

• damper

• wet blanket

• disillusionment

• disenchantment

• cohibition

• curb

• check

• reluctance

• contraindication

• V. dissuade

• cry out against

• remonstrate

• expostulate

• warn

• contraindicate

• disincline

• indispose

• shake

• stagger

• dispirit

• discourage

• dishearten

• deter

• repress

• hold back

• keep back

• render

• averse

• repel

• turn aside

• wean from

• act as a

• drag

• throw cold water on

• damp

• cool

• chill

• blunt

• calm

• quiet

• quench

• deprecate

• disenchant

• disillusion

• deflate

• take down a peg

• pop one's balloon

• prick one's balloon

• burst one's bubble

• disabuse (correction) 527a

• Adj. dissuading

• dissuasive

• monitive|

• monitory

• dissuaded

• admonitory

• uninduced

• unpersuadable

• averse

• repugnant

• repressed

#617. [Ostensible motive

• ground

• or reason assigned.] Pretext. -- N

• pretext

• pretense

• pretension

• plea|

• allegation

• advocation

• ostensible

• motive

• ostensible ground

• ostensible reason

• phony reason

• excuse

• (vindication) 9

• subterfuge

• color

• gloss

• guise

• cover

• loop hole

• starting hole

• how to creep out of

• salvo

• come off

• way of

• escape

• handle

• peg to hang on

• room locus standi[Lat]

• stalking-horse

• cheval

• cue

• pretense

• put off

• dust thrown in the eyes

• blind;

• moonshine

• mere pretext

• shallow pretext

• lame excuse

• lame apology

• tub to

• a whale

• false plea

• sour grapes

• makeshift

• shift

• white lie

• special

• pleading

• soft sawder

• V. pretend

• plead

• allege

• shelter oneself under the plea of

• excuse

• lend a color to

• furnish a handle

• make a

• pretext of

• make a handle of

• use as a plea

• take one's stand upon

• make capital out of

• pretend

• Adj. ostensibly

• alleged

• apologetic

• pretended

• 545

• Adv. ostensibly

• under color

• under the plea

• under the pretense of

• under the guise of

• 3. Objects of Volition

#618. Good. -- N. good

• benefit

• advantage

• improvement

• greatest good

• supreme good

• interest

• service

• behoof

• behalf

• weal

• main

• chance

• summum bonum[Lat]

• common weal

• "consummation devoutly to be

• wished"

• gain

• boot

• profit

• harvest

• boon

• good turn

• blessing

• world of good

• piece of good

• nuts

• prize

• windfall

• godsend

• waif

• treasure-trove

• good fortune

• happiness

• [Source of good] goodness

• utility

• remedy

• pleasure giving

• Adj. commendable

• useful

• good

• beneficial

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• Adv. well

• aright

• satisfactorily

• favorably

• all for

• the best

• to one's advantage

• in one's favor

• in one's interest

• n

• Phr. so far so good

• magnum bonum[Lat]

#619. Evil. -- N. evil

• ill

• harm

• hurt

• mischief

• nuisance;

• machinations of the devil

• Pandora's box

• ills that flesh is heir to

• blow

• buffet

• stroke

• scratch

• bruise

• wound

• gash

• mutilation

• mortal

• blow

• wound

• immedicabile vulnus[Lat]

• damage

• loss

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• disadvantage

• prejudice

• drawback

• disaster

• accident

• casualty

• mishap

• bad job

• devil to pay

• calamity

• bale

• catastrophe

• tragedy

• ruin

• adversity

• mental suffering

• 663[Cause of evil]. badness

• painfulness

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• evil doer

• outrage

• wrong

• injury

• foul play

• bad turn

• ill turn

• disservice

• spoliation

• grievance

• crying evil

• V. be in trouble

• Adj. disastrous

• bad

• awry

• out of joint

• disadvantageous

• wrong

• ill

• to one's cost

• Phr. "moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello]