Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection VI. Time
1. Absolute Time
106. Time.
INTERMEDIATE TIME, while, bit, breathing, interim, interval, pendency; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite.
ERA, epoch, Kalpa, eon, cycle; time of life, age, year, date; decade (period) [See Period]; point, bell, moment (instant) [See Instantaneity]; reign [See Authority].
glass of time, ravages of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of Time; scythe of Time.
take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time.
PASS TIME; pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity [See Occasion]; linger on, drag on, drag along, tarry [See Diuturnity]; waste time &c. (be inactive) [See Inactivity]; procrastinate [See Lateness].
THEN, hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; anno Domini [L.], A.D.; ante Christum [L.], A.C.; before Christ, B.C.; anno urbis conditœ [L.], A.U.C.; anno regni [L.], A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning.
- Time runs, time runs against.
- Tempus fugit.
- Ad calendas Græcas.
- Panting Time toileth after him in vain.—Johnson
- ’Gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion.—Measure for Measure
- Rich with the spoils of time.—Gray
- Tempus edax rerum.—Horace
- The long hours come and go.—C. G. Rossetti
- The time is out of joint.—Hamlet
- Time rolls his ceaseless course.—Scott
- Time the foe of man’s dominion.—Peacock
- Time wasted is existence, used is life.—Young
- Truditur dies die.—Horace]
- Volat hora per orbem.—Lucretius