Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section III. Materials for Reasoning

469. Qualification.

   NOUN:QUALIFICATION, limitation, modification, coloring.
  ALLOWANCE, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation.
  CONDITION, proviso, exception; exemption; salvo [rare], saving clause; discount [See Discount]; restriction.
   VERB:QUALIFY, limit, modify, affect, leaven, take color from, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper.
  ALLOW FOR, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate.
  TAKE EXCEPTION, file exceptions, object, raise objections, rise to a point of order.
   ADJECTIVE:QUALIFYING &c. v.; modificatory, extenuatory, mitigatory, lenitive, palliative; conditional; exceptional (unconformable) [See Unconformity].
  HYPOTHETICAL (supposed) [See Supposition]; contingent (uncertain) [See Uncertainty].
   ADVERB:PROVIDED, – always; if, unless, but, yet; according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of (theoretically) [See Supposition]; with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events.
  IF POSSIBLE [See Possibility]; with grains of allowance, cum grano salis [L.]; exceptis excipiendis [L.], wind and weather permitting.
  SUBJECT TO; with this proviso &c. n.