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 IV. Antagonism
2. Active Antagonism

718. Retaliation.

   NOUN:RETALIATION, reprisal, talion [rare], retort; counter-stroke, counterblast, counterplot, counterproject; retribution, lex talionis [L.]; reciprocation (reciprocity) [See Correlation].
  REQUITAL, desert; tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo [L.], a Roland for an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, an eye for an eye, boomerang, the biter bit, a game at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous.
  recrimination (accusation) [See Accusation]; revenge [See Revenge]; compensation [See Compensation]; reaction (recoil) [See Recoil].
   VERB:RETALIATE, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in -one’s own, – the same- coin; cap, match; reciprocate [See Interchange]; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo &c. n., give as much as one takes; give as good as was sent; exchange blows; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.
  serve one right, be hoist on one’s own petard, throw a stone in one’s own garden, catch a Tartar.
   ADJECTIVE:RETALIATING &c. v.; retaliatory, retaliative, retributive, recriminatory, reciprocal; talionic [rare].
   ADVERB:IN RETALIATION; en revanche [F.].
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.—Horace
2. Par pari refero.—Terence
3. Tu quoque.
4. You’re another.
5. Suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo.
6. À beau jeu beau retour.
7. Litem lite resolvere.—adapted from Horace
8. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.