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 V. Results of Reasoning
Faculties

502. Sanity.

   NOUN:SANITY; soundness &c. adj.; rationality, normalcy, normality, sobriety, lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, common sense, horse sense [colloq.], sound mind, mens sana [L.].
   VERB:BE SANE &c. adj.; retain one’s senses, – reason.
  BECOME SANE &c. adj.; come to one’s senses, sober down, cool down, get things into proportion, see things in proper perspective.
  RENDER SANE &c. adj.; bring to one’s senses, sober, bring to reason.
   ADJECTIVE:SANE, rational, normal, wholesome, right-minded, reasonable, compos mentis [L.], of sound mind; sound, sound-minded; lucid.
  self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.
  in one’s -sober senses, – right mind; in possession of one’s faculties.
   ADVERB:SANELY &c. adj.; in reason, within reason, within bounds; according to the dictates of -reason, – common sense; in the name of common sense.
   QUOTATION:Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.—Horace