Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section VIII. Causation
3. Power in Operation
170. Agency.
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NOUN: | AGENCY, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking, interaction; procuration, procurement. CAUSATION [See Cause]; mediation, intermediation, instrumentality [See Instrumentality]; conation, influence [See Influence]; action (voluntary) [See Action]; modus operandi [L.] [See Method]. quickening -, maintaining -, sustaining- power; home stroke.
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VERB: | BE IN ACTION &c. adj.; operate, work; act, act upon; perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike. come -, bring- into -operation, – play; have play, have free play; bring to bear upon.
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ADJECTIVE: | OPERATIVE, operant [rare], efficient, efficacious, practical, exertive, conative, effectual. at work, on foot; acting (doing) [See Action]; in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise; acted upon, wrought upon.
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ADVERB: | BY THE AGENCY OF &c. n.; through (instrumentality) [See Instrumentality]; by means of [See Means].
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QUOTATIONS: | - I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair.—Tennyson
- The day is always his who works in it with serenity and great aims.—Emerson
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