Roget's Thesaurus

by Peter Mark Roget

#969. Lawsuit.—N. lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in
law; dispute &c. 713.
citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment; accusation &c. 938;
presentment, true bill, indictment.
apprehension, arrest; committal; imprisonment &c. (restraint) 751.
writ, summons, subpoena, latitat[obs3], nisi prius[Lat]; venire,
venire facias
pleadings[Lat]; declaration, bill, claim; proces verbal[Fr]; bill of
right, information, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts; answer,
reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter[obs3],
surrejoinder[obs3].
suitor, party to a suit; plaintiff, defendant, litigant &c. 938.
hearing, trial; verdict &c. (judgment) 480; appeal, appeal motion;
writ of error; certiorari[Lat].
case; decision, precedent; decided case, reports (legal reference
works, see reference books).
V. go to law, appeal to the law; bring to justice, bring to trial,
bring to the bar; put on trial, pull up; accuse &c. 938; prefer a claim,
file a claim &c.n.; take the law of, inform against.
serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an
action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon,
summons; give in charge &c. (restrain) 751.
empanel a jury, implead[obs3], join issue; close the pleadings; set
down for hearing.
try, hear a cause; sit in judgment; adjudicate &c. 480.
Adj. litigious &c. (quarrelsome) 713; qui tam; coram judice[Lat], sub
judice[Lat].
Adv. pendente lite[Lat].
Phr. adhuc sub judice lis est[Lat]; accedas ad curiam[Lat]; transeat
in exemplum[Lat].

#970. Acquittal.—N. acquittal, acquitment[obs3]; clearance,
exculpation; acquittance, clearance, exoneration; discharge &c. (release)
750; quietus, absolution, compurgation[obs3], reprieve, respite; pardon &c.
(forgiveness) 918.
[Exemption from punishment] impunity; diplomatic immunity; immunity;
plea bargain, deal with the prosecutor.
[in civil suits] no cause for action; no damages.
V. acquit, exculpate, exonerate, clear; absolve, whitewash,
assoil[obs3]; discharge, release; liberate &c. 750.
reprieve, respite; pardon &c. (forgive) 918; let off, let off scot-
free.
drop the charges.
plea bargain, strike a deal.
no-cause[in civil suits][transitive]; get no-caused[intransitive].
Adj. acquitted &c. v.; uncondemned, unpunished, unchastised.
not guilty; not proven.
not liable.
Phr. nemo bis punitur pro codem delicto[Lat][obs3].

#971. Condemnation.—N. condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty,
sentence; proscription, damnation; death warrant.
attainder, attainture[obs3], attaintment[obs3].
V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom,
sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate,
proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit[obs3].
disapprove &c. 932; accuse &c. 938.
stand condemned.
Adj. condemnatory, damnatory[obs3]; guilty, condemned &c.v.; nonsuited
&c. (failure) 732[obs3]; self-convicted.
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur[Lat]; "unrespited, unpitied,
unreprieved" [P.L.].

#972. Punishment.—N. punishment,punition[obs3]; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation. discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty &c. 974; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital &c. (reward) 973; penology; retributive justice. lash, scaffold &c. (instrument of punishment) 975; imprisonment &c. (restraint) 751; transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys &c. 975; beating &c.v.; flagellation, fustigation[obs3], gantlet, strappado[obs3], estrapade[obs3], bastinado, argumentum baculinum[Lat][obs3], stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow &c. (impulse) 276; stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade[obs3]. capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging &c.v.; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines[obs3]; decapitation, decollation[obs3]; garrotte, garrotto[It]; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe[Fr]; noyade[obs3]; happy dispatch. [suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [Japanese]; drinking the hemlock. V. punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste*. visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one. strike &c. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge[obs3], buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund[obs3], cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate[obs3], pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye. tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate[obs3]; masthead, keelhaul. execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale[obs3], impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber. torture; put on, put to the rack; picket. banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench[obs3]; strike off the roll, unfrock; post. suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged. be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c., come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [coll.], ride the lightning [coll.]; face the firing squad. Adj. punishing &c. v.; penal; punitory[obs3], punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished &c.v. Int. a la lanterne[Fr]! Phr. culpan paena premit comes [Lat][Horace]; "eating the bitter bread of banishment" [Richard II]; gravis ira regum est semper [Lat][Seneca]; sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus [Lat][Tibullus]; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Lat][Terence].

#973. Reward.—N. reward, recompense, remuneration, meed,
guerdon[obs3], reguerdon|; price.
[payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance;
compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment,
requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid
pro quo.
salvage, perquisite; vail &c. (donation) 784[obs3].
douceur[Fr], bribe; hush money, smart money|!; blackmail, extortion;
carcelage|; solatium[obs3].
allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment;
emolument; tribute; batta[obs3], shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee,
honorarium; hire; dasturi[obs3], dustoori[obs3]; mileage.
crown &c. (decoration of honor) 877.
V. reward, recompense, repay, requite; remunerate, munerate[obs3];
compensate; fee; pay one's footing &c. (pay) 807; make amends, indemnify,
atone; satisfy, acknowledge.
get for one's pains, reap the fruits of.
tip.
Adj. remunerative, remuneratory; munerary[obs3], compensatory,
retributive, reparatory[obs3]; rewarding; satisfactory.
Phr. fideli certa merces[Lat]; honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero];
tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].

#974. Penalty.—N. penalty; retribution &c. (punishment) 972; pain, pains and penalties; weregild[obs3], wergild; peine forte et dure[Fr]; penance &c. (atonement) 952; the devil to pay. fine, mulct, amercement; forfeit, forfeiture; escheat[Law], damages, deodand[obs3], sequestration, confiscation, premunire[Lat]; doomage [obs3][U.S.]. V. fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat[Law]; estreat[obs3], forfeit.

#975. [Instrument of punishment.] Scourge.—N. scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan[obs3], rattan; birch, birch rod; azote[obs3], blacksnake[obs3], bullwhack [obs3][U.S.], chicote[obs3], kurbash[obs3], quirt, rawhide, sjambok[obs3]; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end. pillory, stocks, whipping post; cucking stool[obs3], ducking stool; brank[obs3]; trebuchet[obs3], trebuket[obs3]. triangle[instruments of torture: list], wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; chinese water torture. treadmill, crank, galleys. scaffold; block, ax, guillotine; stake; cross; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring; death chair, electric chair; gas chamber; lethal injection; firing squad; mecate[obs3]. house of correction &c. (prison) 752. goaler, jailer; executioner; electrocutioner[obs3]; lyncher; hangman; headsman[obs3]; Jack Ketch.

SECTION V. RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS

1. SUPERHUMAN BEINGS AND REGIONS

#976. Deity.—N. Deity, Divinity; Godhead, Godship[obs3]; Omnipotence, Providence; Heaven [metonymically]. [Quality of being divine] divineness[obs3], divinity. God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah[obs3]; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium[Lat]; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast[obs3]; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All- merciful, The All-holy. [Attributes and perfections] infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite truth, infinite mercy; omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence; unity, immutability, holiness, glory, majesty, sovereignty, infinity, eternity. The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune God, God the Father Son and Holy Ghost. God the Father; The Maker, The Creator, The Preserver. [Functions] creation, preservation, divine government; Theocracy, Thearchy[obs3]; providence; ways of Providence, dealings of Providence, dispensations of Providence, visitations of Providence. [Christian God: second person] God the Son, Jesus, Christ; The Messiah, The Anointed, The Saviour, the Redeemer, The Mediator, The Intercessor, The Advocate, The Judge; The Son of God, The Son of Man, The Son of David; The Lamb of God, The Word; Logos; Emmanuel; Immanuel; The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, The King of Glory, The Prince of Peace, The Good Shepherd, The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Bread of Life, The Light of the World; The Lord our, The Sun of Righteousness; "The Pilot of the Galilean lake" [Milton]. The Incarnation, The Hypostatic Union. [Functions] salvation, redemption, atonement, propitiation, mediation, intercession, judgment. [Christian God: third person] God the Holy Ghost, The Holy Spirit, Paraclete[Theol]; The Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, The Dove. [Functions] inspiration, unction, regeneration, sanctification, consolation. eon, aeon, special providence, deus ex machina[Lat]; avatar. V. create, move, uphold, preserve, govern &c. atone, redeem, save, propitiate, mediate &c. predestinate, elect, call, ordain, bless, justify, sanctify, glorify &c. Adj. almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial; sacrosanct; all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise; omniscient. superhuman, supernatural; ghostly, spiritual, hyperphysical[obs3], unearthly; theistic, theocratic; anointed; soterial[obs3]. Adj. jure divino[Lat], by divine right. Phr. Domine dirige nos[Lat]; en Dieu est ma fiance[Fr]; et sceleratis sol oritur [Lat][Seneca]; "He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind" [Pope]; "Thou great First Cause, least understood" [Pope]; sans Dieu rien[Fr].