Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection VII. Change
1. Simple Change
140. [Difference at Different Times.] Change.
TRANSFORMATION, transfiguration, transfigurement; metamorphosis; metabola or metabole [med.], transmorphism [rare], transmutation; deoxidization, deoxidation; transubstantiation; metagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis, version [rare]; metasomatism or metasomatosis, metathesis; metabolism, metastasis; transmogrification [colloq.]; avatar; alterative.
resolution, conversion (gradual change) [See Conversion]; revolution (sudden or radical change) [See Revolution]; inversion (reversal) [See Inversion]; displacement [See Displacement]; transference [See Transference].
CHANGEABLENESS [See Changeableness]; tergiversation (change of mind) [See Tergiversation].
WORK A CHANGE, modify, vamp, patch, piece, vamp up, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify [colloq.], transume [rare], transverse [rare], transshape [rare], metabolize, convert, transubstantiate, resolve, revolutionize; chop and change; metamorphose, ring the changes.
innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf.
recast [See Revolution]; reverse [See Inversion]; disturb [See Derangement]; convert into [See Conversion].
- A change came o’er the spirit of my dream.—Byron
- Nous avons changé tout cela.—Molière
- Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.
- Non sum qualis eram.—Horace
- Casaque tourner.
- Corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur.—Tacitus
- In statu quo ante bellum.
- Still ending and beginning still.—Cowper
- Vox audita perit littera scripta manet.
- All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting.—Proverb