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. Precursory Measures

676. Undertaking.

   NOUN:UNDERTAKING; compact [See Compact]; adventure, venture; engagement (promise) [See Promise]; enterprise, emprise or emprize [archaic]; pilgrimage; matter in hand (business) [See Business]; move; first move (beginning) [See Beginning].
   VERB:UNDERTAKE; engage -, embark- in; launch -, plunge- into; volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage (promise) [See Promise]; contract [See Compact]; take upon -oneself, – one’s shoulders; devote oneself to (determination) [See Resolution].
  TAKE UP, take on, take in hand; tackle [colloq.]; set -, go- about; set -, fall- -to, – to work; launch forth; break the ice; set up shop; put in -hand, – execution; set forward; break the neck of a -day’s work, – business; be in for [colloq.]; put one’s hand to; betake oneself to, turn one’s hand to, go to do; be in the midst of; begin [See Beginning]; broach, institute (originate) [See Cause]; put -, lay- one’s -hand to the plow, – shoulder to the wheel.
  have in hand (business) [See Business]; have many irons in the fire (activity) [See Activity].
   ADJECTIVE:UNDERTAKING &c. v.; on the anvil [See Business]; available, receptive; full of pep [slang], energetic; adventurous, venturesome.
   INTERJECTION:here goes! shoot! [colloq.].    QUOTATIONS:

1. Nowher so besy a man as he ther n’as, And yet he semed besier than he was.—Chaucer
2. So many worlds, so much to do!—Tennyson