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 (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
2. Spoken Language

581. Aphonia.

   NOUN:APHONIA or aphony; dumbness &c. adj.; obmutescence [rare]; absence -, want- of voice; dysphonia or dysphony; silence (taciturnity) [See Taciturnity]; raucity; harsh voice [See Stridor], unmusical voice [See Discord]; quaver, quavering; falsetto, “childish treble”; deaf-mutism, deaf-muteness, deaf-dumbness, mute, dummy, deaf-mute.
   VERB:SPEAK LOW, speak softly; whisper (faintness) [See Faintness]; keep silence [See Taciturnity].
  SILENCE; render -mute, – silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfound or dumbfound, dumfounder or dumbfounder, mum [obs.], drown the voice, put to silence, stop one’s mouth, cut one short.
  stick in the throat.
   ADJECTIVE:APHONOUS, nonvocal, aphonic, dumb, mute, deaf and dumb, deafdumb; mum; obmutescent [rare], tonguetied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a -fish, – stockfish, – mackerel; silent (taciturn) [See Taciturnity]; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
  CROAKING, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.
   ADVERB:WITH BATED BREATH, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce [It.]; in a -low tone, – cracked voice, – broken voice; in broken tones, aside, in an aside.
   INTERJECTION:MUM! hush! sh! silence! whist! whisht! [dial.]; chut! (silence) [See Silence].    QUOTATIONS:

1. Vox faucibus hæsit.—Vergil
2. There is a homely old adage which runs: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far’.—Roosevelt