Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget.

Peter Mark Roget

Date:: 1894

Credit: Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$VI. rv. 5°. MORAL INSTITUTIONS. 969—972. mation, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts ; answer, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder ; surre-butter, -joinder, suitor, party to a suit; litigant &c. 938. hearing, trial; verdict &c. {judgment) 480; appeal, - motion ; writ of error; certiorari, case, decision, precedent; decided case, reports, V. go to -, appeal to the- law ; bring to -justice, - trial, - the bar; put on trial, pull up; accuse &c. 938; prefer 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; sum- mon, -s; give in charge &c. {restrain) 751. empanel a jury, implead, 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 tarn; corainsuh-judice. Adv. pendente lite. Vhx. adhuc subjudice lis est. 970. Acquittal.—W. acquit-tal, -ment; clearance, exculpation; discharge &c. {I'elease) 750; quietus, absolution, compurgation, reprieve, respite; pardon &c. {forgiveness) 918. [Exemption from punishment] im- punity. V. acquit,exculpate, exonerate,clear; absolve, whitewash, assoil, discharge, release ; liberate &c. 750. reprieve, respite; pardon &c. {forgive) 918; let off, - scot free. Adj. acquitted &c. v.) un-condemned, -punished, -chastised. 971. Condemnation.—m*. con- demuation, conviction, proscription, damnation; death warrant, attain-der, -ture, -tment. V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, seques- trate; non-suit. disapprove &c. 932; accuse &c. 938. stand condemned. Adj. condem-, dam-natory; con- demned &c. V.; non-suited &c. {failure) 732; self-convicted. Phr. mutato nomine de te fahida narratur. 91Z, Punishment.—H. punishment, punition ; chast-isement, -ening; coiTection, castigatiou. discipline, inflictioa, trial; judgment; penalty i&c. 974; retribution; thunderbolt. Nemesis; requital &c. (reivard) 973 ; penology; retri- butive justice. lash,_scafibld, &c. {instiiiment of punishment) 975; imprisonment &c. {restraint) 751 ; ti-ansportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involun- tary exile, ostracism: penal servitude, haixi labour; galleys &c. 975 ; beating &c. v.; flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow &c. {impulse) 276; stripe, cuff, kick, bufiet, piunmel; slap, - in the face ; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack ; picket, -ing; dragonnade ; capital punishment; execution; hanging &c. v. • de-capitation,-collation; garrot-te,-to;cy\x6.^'!iSo\i, impalement; martyr- dom, auto-da-fe; nogade ; hari-kari, happy despatch. V. punish; chast-ise, -en; castigate, correct, inflict punishment administer correction, deal retributive justice. ' ^ visit upon, pay; pay -, 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 thft lash, smite ; slap, -$