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#956. Fasting. -- N. fasting

• famishment

• starvation

• fast

• fast day

• banyan day

• Lent

• Ramadan

• Ramazan

• spare diet

• meager diet

• lenten diet

• lenten

• entertainment

• short commons

• short rations

• V. fast

• starve

• clem|

• famish

• perish with hunger

• dine with Duke

• make two bites of a cherry

• Adj. lenten

• starved

• half-

• starved

• fasting

• hungry

#957. Gluttony. -- N. gluttony

• greed

• avarice

• greediness

• voracity

• epicurism

• good living

• high living

• guzzling

• good cheer

• blow out

• feast

• gastronomy

• batterie de

• epicure

• bon vivant

• gourmand

• glutton

• cormorant

• hog

• belly god

• gastronome

• gourmet

• 868

• v. gormandize

• gorge

• overeat oneself

• engorge

• eat

• one's fill

• cram

• stuff

• guzzle

• bolt

• devour

• gobble up;

• gulp

• raven

• eat out of house and home

• have the stomach of an ostrich

• play a good knife and fork

• (appetite) 865

• pamper

• Adj. gluttonous

• greedy

• gormandizing

• omnivorous

• swinish

• avaricious

• selfish

• pampered

• overfed

• Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat][Horace]

#958. Sobriety. -- N. sobriety

• teetotalism

• temperance

• water-drinker

• hydropot|!

• prohibitionist

• teetotaler

• teetotalist;

• abstainer

• Good Templar

• band of hope

• V. take the pledge

• Adj. sober

• sober as a judge

#959. Drunkenness. -- N. drunkenness

• intemperance

• drinking

• inebriation

• insobriety

• intoxication

• wine bibbing;

• potation

• deep potations

• bacchanals

• bacchanalia

• libations

• bender* [U.S.]

• dipsomania

• delirium tremens

• alcohol

• alcoholism;

• drink

• alcoholic drinks

• blue ruin*

• grog

• port wine

• punch

• punch

• bowl

• cup

• rosy wine

• flowing bowl

• drop

• drop too much

• dram

• beer

• (beverage)

• apple brandy

• applejack

• brandy

• brandy

• smash [U.S.]

• chain lightning*

• champagne

• cocktail

• gin

• highball [U.S.]

• peg

• rum

• rye

• schnapps [U.S.]

• sherry

• sling [U.S.]

• uisquebaugh[Irish]

• usquebaugh

• whisky

• drunkard

• sot

• toper

• tippler

• wine-bibber

• lush

• hard

• drinker

• gin drinker

• dram drinker

• soaker*

• sponge

• tun

• love pot

• toss

• pot

• thirsty soul

• reveler

• carouser

• Bacchanal

• Bacchanalian;

• bum* [U.S.]

• guzzler

• tavern haunter

• V. get drunk

• be drunk

• see double

• take a drop too much

• take a glass too much

• drink

• tipple

• tope

• booze

• guzzle

• swill*

• soak*

• sot

• bum* [U.S.]

• besot

• have a jag on

• have a buzz on

• lush*

• bib

• swig

• carouse

• take

• to drinking

• drink hard

• drink deep

• drink like a fish

• have one's swill*

• drain the cup

• splice the main brace

• take a hair of the dog that bit you

• liquor

• liquor up

• wet one's whistle

• take a whet

• crack a bottle

• pass the bottle

• toss off

• go to the alehouse

• go to

• the public house

• make one drunk

• inebriate

• fuddle

• befuddle

• get into one's head

• Adj. drunk

• tipsy

• intoxicated

• inebriate

• inebriated

• in one's cups

• in a state of intoxication

• bombed

• smashed

• fuddled

• mellow

• cut

• boozy

• fresh

• merry

• elevated

• flustered

• disguised

• groggy

• beery

• top-heavy

• glorious

• potulent|

• overcome

• overtaken

• whittled

• screwed*

• tight

• primed

• corned

• sewed up*

• muddled

• obfuscated

• maudlin

• dead drunk

• woozy[1][slightly drunk]

• buzzed

• flush

• flushed

• in liquor

• the worse for liquor

• having had a drop

• too much

• half seas over

• three sheets in the wind

• three sheets to the

• wind

• under the table

• drunk as a lord

• drunk as a skunk

• drunk as a piper

• drunk as a

• fiddler

• drunk as Chloe

• drunk as an owl

• drunk as David's sow

• drunk as a

• wheelbarrow

• drunken

• sottish

• given to drink

• addicted to drink

• addicted to the bottle

• toping

• Phr. nunc est bibendum[Lat]

• "Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden];

• "drink down all unkindness" [Merry Wives]

• "O that men should put an enemy

• in their mouths to steal away their brains" [Othello]

#960. Purity. -- N. purity

• decency

• decorum

• delicacy

• continence

• chastity

• honesty

• virtue

• modesty

• shame

• virginity

• vestal

• virgin

• Joseph

• Hippolytus

• Lucretia

• Diana

• prude

• Adj. pure

• undefiled

• modest

• delicate

• decent

• decorous

• virginibus

• puerisque[Lat]

• simon-pure

• chaste

• continent

• virtuous

• honest

• Platonic

• virgin

• unsullied

• cherry [coll.]

• Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]

• "a soul as white as

• heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]

• "'tis Chastity

• my brother

• Chastity" [Milton];

• "to the pure all things are pure" [Shelley]

#961. Impurity.-- N. impurity

• uncleanness

• immodesty

• grossness

• indelicacy

• indecency

• obscenity

• ribaldry

• Fescennine

• smut

• double entente

• concupiscence

• lust

• carnality

• flesh

• salacity

• pruriency

• lechery

• lubricity

• Sadism

• incontinence

• intrigue

• amour

• gallantry

• debauchery

• fornication;

• liaison

• wenching

• venery

• dissipation

• seduction

• defloration

• defilement

• abuse

• violation

• rape

• incest

• prostitution

• social evil

• harlotry

• whoredom

• concubinage

• adultery

• crim[abbr]. con.;

• free love

• seraglio

• harem

• brothel

• stew

• cat

• house

• house of ill fame

• bordello

• V. be impure

• intrigue

• debauch

• defile

• seduce

• prostitute;

• abuse

• violate

• deflower

• commit adultery

• Adj. impure

• unclean

• not to be mentioned to ears

• polite

• immodest

• shameless

• indecorous

• indelicate

• indecent

• Fescennine;

• loose

• coarse

• gross

• broad

• free

• equivocal

• smutty

• fulsome

• ribald

• obscene

• bawdy

• pornographic

• concupiscent

• prurient

• rampant

• lustful

• carnal

• carnal-minded

• lewd

• lascivious

• lecherous

• libidinous

• erotic

• ruttish

• salacious

• Paphian

• voluptuous

• goatish

• must

• musty

• unchaste

• light

• wanton

• licentious

• debauched

• dissolute

• of loose

• character

• of easy virtue

• frail

• gay

• incontinent

• meretricious

• rakish

• gallant

• dissipated

• no better than she should be

• on

• the town

• on the streets

• on the pave

• on the loose

• adulterous

• incestuous

• bestial

#962. Libertine. -- N. libertine

• voluptuary

• rake

• debauchee

• loose fish

• rip

• fast man

• gallant

• seducer

• fornicator

• lecher

• satyr

• goat

• whoremonger

• adulterer

• gay deceiver

• Lothario

• Don Juan

• chartered libertine

• adulteress

• courtesan

• prostitute

• strumpet

• harlot

• whore

• punk

• woman

• woman of the town

• streetwalker

• Cyprian

• miss

• frail sisterhood

• demirep

• wench

• trollop

• baggage

• hussy

• drab

• bitch

• jade

• skit

• rig

• slut

• minx

• harridan

• unfortunate

• unfortunate female

• unfortunate woman

• woman of easy virtue

• wanton

• Jezebel

• Messalina

• Delilah

• Thais

• Phryne

• Lais

• petite dame

• demimonde

• spiritual

• wife

• white slave

• concubine

• mistress

• bona roba[It]

• pimp

• procurer

• pander

• bawd

• mackerel

• wittol|

• 5. INSTITUTIONS

#963. Legality. -- N. legality

• legitimacy

• legitimateness

• legislature

• law

• code

• corpus juris[Lat]

• constitution

• charter

• enactment

• statute

• rule

• canon

• ordinance

• institution

• regulation

• bylaw

• byelaw

• decree

• standing order

• plebiscite

• legal process

• form

• formula

• formality

• rite

• arm of the law

• habeas

• corpus

• fieri facias[Lat]

• [Science of law] jurisprudence

• legislation

• codification

• equity

• common law

• lex[Lat]

• law of

• nations

• international law

• jus gentium[Lat]

• jus

• civile[Lat]

• civil law

• canon law

• crown law

• criminal law

• statute law

• ecclesiastical law

• administrative law

• lex mercatoria[Lat]

• constitutionalism

• constitutionality

• justice

• [institution for deciding questions of law] court

• tribunal

• [person who presides at a court or tribunal] judge

• [specialist in questions of law] lawyer

• attorney

• legal counsel

• 968

• V. legalize

• enact

• ordain

• decree

• pass a law

• enact

• a regulation

• legislate

• codify

• formulate

• regulate

• Adj. legal

• legitimate

• according to law

• vested

• constitutional

• chartered

• legalized

• lawful

• statutory

• legislatorial

• legislative

• regulatory

• regulated

• Adv. legally

• in the eye of the law

• de jure[Lat]

• Phr. ignorantia legis neminem excusat[Latin: ignorance of the law is

• no excuse]

• "where law ends tyranny begins" [Earl of Chatham]

#964. [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality. -- N. lawlessness;

• illicitness

• breach of law

• violation of law

• infraction of the law;

• disobedience

• unconformity

• arbitrariness

• antinomy

• violence

• brute force

• despotism

• outlawry

• mob law

• lynch law

• club law

• Lydford law

• martial law

• drumhead law;

• argumentum

• illegality

• informality

• unlawfulness

• illegitimacy

• bar sinister

• trover and conversion[Law]

• smuggling

• poaching

• simony

• [person who violates the law] outlaw

• bad man

• v. offend against the law

• violate the law

• infringe the law

• break

• the law

• set the law at defiance

• ride roughshod over

• drive a coach and

• six through a statute

• ignore the law

• make the law a dead letter

• take the

• law into one's own hands

• smuggle

• run

• poach

• Adj. illegal[contrary to law]

• unlawful

• illegitimate

• not allowed

• prohibited

• illicit

• contraband

• actionable

• unwarranted

• unwarrantable

• unauthorized

• informal

• unofficial;

• extrajudicial

• lawless

• arbitrary

• despotic

• corrupt

• summary

• irresponsible

• unanswerable

• unaccountable

• [of invalid or expired law] expired

• invalid

• unchartered

• unconstitutional

• null and void

• a dead letter

• [in absence of law] lawless

• unregulated

• Adv. illegally

• with a high hand

• in violation of law

#965. Jurisdiction. [Executive.] -- N. jurisdiction

• judicature

• administration of justice

• soc

• executive

• commission of the peace;

• magistracy

• judge

• tribunal

• municipality

• corporation

• bailiwick

• shrievalty[Brit]

• lord lieutenant

• sheriff

• shire reeve

• constable

• selectman

• police

• police force

• the fuzz [sarcastic];

• constabulary

• officer

• bailiff

• tipstaff

• bum-bailiff

• catchpoll

• beadle

• policeman

• cop [coll.]

• police constable

• police sergeant

• gendarme

• mace bearer

• press gang

• gauger

• customhouse officer

• coroner

• paritor|

• posse

• comitatus[Lat]

• bureau

• department

• secretariat

• [extension of jurisdiction] long arm of the law

• extradition

• V. judge

• sit in judgment

• extradite

• executive

• administrative

• municipal

• inquisitorial

• judiciary

• judicial

• juridical

• Adv. coram judice[Lat]

#966. Tribunal. -- N. tribunal

• court

• board

• bench

• court of justice

• court of law

• court of arbitration

• administrative court;

• inquisition

• guild

• justice seat

• judgment seat

• mercy seat

• bar of

• justice

• dock

• forum

• hustings

• bureau

• drumhead

• jury box

• witness box

• senate house

• town hall

• theater

• House of Commons

• House of Lords;

• statehouse [U.S.]

• townhouse

• assize

• eyre

• superior

• courts of Westminster

• court of record

• court oyer and terminer[Law]

• court

• assize

• court of appeal

• court of error

• High court of Judicature

• High

• court of Appeal

• Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

• Star Chamber;

• Court of Chancery

• Court of King's or Queen's Bench

• Court of Exchequer

• Court of Common Pleas

• Court of Probate

• Court of Arches

• Court of

• Admiralty

• Lords Justices' court

• Rolls court

• Vice Chancellor's court

• Divorce court

• Family court

• Palatine court

• county

• court

• district court

• police court

• sessions

• quarter sessions

• petty

• sessions

• court-baron

• court of

• common council

• board of green cloth

• court martial

• drumhead court martial

• divan;

• Irota

• Adj. judicial

• appellate

• Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht[Ger]

#967. Judge. -- N. judge

• justice

• chancellor

• justice of assize

• judge of assize

• recorder

• common sergeant;

• puisne judge

• assistant judge

• county court judge

• conservator of the

• peace

• justice of the peace

• J.P

• court

• magistrate

• police magistrate

• beak*

• his worship

• his honor

• his lordship

• jury

• twelve men in a box

• Lord Chancellor

• Lord Justice

• Master of the Rolls

• Vice Chancellor;

• Lord Chief Justice

• Chief Baron

• Mr. Justice

• Associate Justice

• Chief

• Justice

• Baron

• Baron of the Exchequer

• jurat[Lat]

• assessor

• arbiter

• arbitrator

• umpire

• referee

• revising barrister

• censor

• 480

• grand juror

• grand juryman

• juryman

• talesman

• archon

• tribune

• praetor

• syndic

• ulema

• mufti

• litigant

• V. adjudge

• try a case

• try a prisoner

• Adj. judicial

• Phr. "a Daniel come to judgment" [Merchant of Venice]