Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
3. Contingent Subservience

670. Preservation.

   NOUN:PRESERVATION; safe-keeping; conservation (storage) [See Store]; maintenance, support, sustentation [rare], conservatism; economy; vis conervatrix [L.]; salvation (deliverance) [See Deliverance].
  [MEANS OF PRESERVATION] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative; hygiastics, hygiantics [both rare]; hygiene, hygienics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire [F.]; ensilage; dehydration, anhydration, evaporation; drying, putting up, canning, pickling; tinned goods [chiefly Brit.], canned goods; kyanization.
  [SUPERSTITIOUS REMEDIES] charm [See Spell].
   VERB:PRESERVE, maintain, keep, sustain, support; keep -up, – alive; not willingly let die; nurse; cure (restore) [See Restoration]; save, rescue; be -, make- safe [See Safety]; take care of (care) [See Care]; guard (defend) [See Defense]; bank, bank up, shore up.
  embalm, dry, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin [chiefly Brit.], can; dehydrate, anhydrate, evaporate; husband (store) [See Store].
  HOLD ONE’S OWN; stare super antiquas vias [Bacon]; hold -, stand- one’s ground (resist) [See Resistance].
   ADJECTIVE:PRESERVING &c. v.; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory, preservative; hygienic.
  PRESERVED &c. v.; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred; safe, – and sound; intact, with a whole skin, without a scratch.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Nolumus leges Angliæ mutari.
2. Thrift, thrift, Horatio.—Hamlet
3. The back door robs the house.—Herbert
4. A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.—Wordsworth