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 III. Voluntary Action
1. Simple Voluntary Action

690. Agent.

   NOUN:AGENT, doer, actor, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, old stager; mediary, medium, reagent.
  minister (instrument) [See Instrumentality]; representative (commissioner) [See Consignee], (deputy) [See Deputy]; factor, steward.
  SERVANT [See Servant]; factotum, general, maid-of-all-work, servant-of-all-work, do-all [colloq.].
  [COMPARISONS] bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar; shaft horse.
  WORKMAN, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; workingman, laboring man; hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy [Eng.]; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, hack; mere tool [See Instrument]; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, stevedore, roustabout [U. S.].
  maker, artificer, artifex [L.], artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, contractor, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, tailor, cordwainer, wheelwright.
  machinist, mechanician, engineer, electrician, plumber, gasfitter.
  WORKWOMAN, charwoman, seamstress or sempstress, needlewoman, laundress, washerwoman, “Madonna of the tubs” [Phelps].
  COWORKER, associate, fellow worker, coöperator, colleague, confrère [F.]; party to, participator in, particeps criminis [L.], dramatis personœ [L.]; personnel [F.].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Quorum pars magna fui.—Vergil
2. Faber est quisque fortunæ suæ.